Wrong Way To Die

Every now and then you hear about someone (often young, male and Asian) found dead after spending too many days in a row playing some computer game (often by Blizzard Entertainment). Shortly afterwards, humans, being humans, start with a healthy mix of "video games kill" and "why didn't anyone save him" and the general "oh how terrible".

Common causes of death around the globe feature mostly cancer, heart disease, car accidents, and other terrible illnesses. Now, I can't speak for everyone here, but if I had to choose one of the following options...

1. A horrible slow death of some disease, full of agonizing pain and ever deteriorating systems.
2. A quicker albeit painful and frightening death from a car accident or a faster disease.
3. A quick, calm, peaceful death, while doing something that I love doing.

... well, whoever asks me that question would have to wait a long time until I could stop laughing in his face.

Besides, based on my ample experience in the fields of not-eating and not-sleeping, I find it impossible to believe that anyone could go that long without food, drink or sleep, and without feeling that something bad is happening. Ergo, it should be viewed not as some sort of accident, like some people say, but as a suicide, and even next to other forms of suicides it's still the best way to go, both for the happy "victim" and for the people who don't have to clean his guts/ brain/ blood from the floor. 

I'd go on about why suicide is no more terrible than a person's decision to harm himself in another way (e.g. smoking, drinking, gambling, enrolling in a university, etc.) but I'll probably have an entire post about that. So let's just leave it with the headline "Today an Asian man chose to end his life in a much more pleasant way than nature originally intended".