Deathwish 020: Lizzy
“and then suffocating together in one mass sleep”
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The best way anyone could ever hope to die is in their sleep, on a night when they didn't even think about dying before they fell asleep. Another good falling-asleep-and-dying option is hypothetical Malaysian Airlines-style: you're on a trip, going somewhere nice, flying over an ocean and slowly the cabin of the plane de-pressurizes so everyone just drifts off to sleep and eventually suffocates.
A person who dies in their sleep doesn't even really die, at least not to themselves--sure, everyone else knows they are dead, but they don't. They never have that horror moment of looking down the barrel of eternal nothing, not-being. They just go from existing to not existing.
The best possible way to die of all ways to die then would be every single human on Earth, slowly drifting off at the same time and then suffocating together in one mass sleep.
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Lizzy was born in Eugene, OR., and currently lives in Portland, OR.