It is said that the night before Julius Ceaser's death, he broke bread with Decimus (an original conspirator) and Lepidus. The conversation of "what's the best way to die" was brought up. After some pontificating on the part of Decimus and Lepidus, Ceaser spoke up and said: "It would be best to die suddenly and unexpectedly."

In the end, I guess he was right, we're still talking about his assassination 2000 years later.