User blog comment:Dragonzzilla/Describe Your Mass Effect 3 Ending/@comment-2247462-20120904060111

My ideal ending would be based on Synthesis, I always chose this variant. So, after all those big revelations on the Citadel Shepard has four choises, he choses "the green one" and jumps into the Crucible's energy beam, but he is not desintegrated. Shepard's DNA becomes a required organic energy sample and Crucible's becomes synmthetic one. Shepard falls in some room in the Tower (i presume that's where the Catalyst "lives"), injured, but barely alive. The Crucible fires, turning everyone into "new denizens", including our hero. All organics and synthetics live a new life, the cycle is no longer needed, and a SAR party arrives at the Citadel in search of Shepard. They find him dying, but manage to heal and bla-bla-bla.

In any event my point is that an ideal ending for me would have been Synthesis with Shepard surviving!