In 2012, Metro Trains Melbourne (Australia) created an ad campaign to promote rail safety. A little song became the theme of the campaign: Dumb Ways To Die. In the song, several dumb ways to die are suggested like:
Set fire to your hair
Poke a stick at a grizzly bear
Eat medicine that’s out of date
Use yourself as piranha bait
Get your toast out with a fork
Do your own electrical work
Teach yourself how to fly
Eat a two-week-old unrefrigerated pie
Keep a rattle snake as a pet
Sell both your kidneys on the internet
Eat a tube of superglue
I wonder, what’s this red button do?
Dress up like a moose during hunting season
Disturb a nest of wasps for no good reason
Stand on the edge of a train station platform
Drive around the boom gates at a level crossing
Run across the tracks between the platforms
They may not rhyme, but they’re quite possibly
Dumb ways to die
So many dumb ways to die
Dumb ways to die-ie-ie
So many dumb ways to die1
Though the lyrics are ridiculous, when you get to the last lines, you see where they were going with the song. Have you ever seen someone go across railroad tracks when the gates are down, the red lights blinking, and the bells clanging? Not only is that really dumb, it is illegal! There could be a fine, jail time, or required attendance at a remedial driving school safety program.
We’ve all seen or read about people who died from doing something really foolish. Maybe they handled rattlesnakes, thinking this was a sign of faith. Or they may have done it thinking that they were the Crocodile Hunter. There are those that cross the fences at the zoo, thinking that the “Do Not Cross” sign applied to everyone but them. Then, we read about those who ignored the “Do Not Feed The Wild Animals” sign, only to be attacked by a bear or something else.
Dumb ways to die!
The dumbest way to die, though, hasn’t even been suggested. The dumbest way to die is to die without Jesus as your Savior.
Jesus told the story about the rich man and Lazarus in Luke 16. Luke 16:22-23 says, “And it came to pass, that the beggar died, and was carried by the angels into Abraham’s bosom: the rich man also died, and was buried; (23) And in hell he lift up his eyes, being in torments, and seeth Abraham afar 
off, and Lazarus in his bosom.” Without Jesus, you go to the same place as the rich man, a place of eternal torment, pain, and despair.
However, those who know Jesus are “absent from the body, in the presence of the Lord.” (2 Corinthians 5:8)
Jesus encouraged His disciples with these words in John 14:1-3. “Let not your heart be troubled: ye believe in God, believe also in me. (2) In my Father’s house are many mansions: if it were not so, I would have told you. I go to prepare a place for you. (3) And if I go and prepare a place for you, I will come again, and receive you unto myself; that where I am, there ye may be also.”
The dumbest way to die is without Jesus. Since it is “appointed unto men once to die” (Hebrews 9:27), let’s die smart. Die with Jesus as your Savior. John 3:36 says, “He that believeth on the Son hath everlasting life: and he that believeth not the Son shall not see life; but the wrath of God abideth on him.”
1https://www.shazam.com/song/575962254/dumb-ways-to-die
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