Thread: What would you do if you were told you are dying?

To follow up with the whole death genre that's going around in the brain stew, I'm wondering what would you guys and gals do if you were told you have only a short period of time to live. For purposes sake let's assume you have around 6 months to live.

It's an interesting topic for me because I think it exposes people to doing things that they wouldn't necessarily have the courage to do. In a way it sucks that we're constantly bombarded on how we're supposed to go on with our lives, school, more school, career, marriage, kids, grandparents, and memoirs. Deviating from the norm is a difficult when there are so many components that rely on your constant path of following these "rules." Mainly for myself when I think of doing some as outrages as quitting school and going to some half ass country to be some work-smiths apprentice or something my family pops into my head. The hardships of leaving them wouldn't sit right with me as I can bet most of you are the same.

With life, we take the safe path because we don't know when our time will come and we'd rather not risk our work for something that isn't 100%.

Let's say we know when our time is up, so my final question is what would YOU do if you knew you were dying?


I'm only generalizing based on my feelings so speak up if you've got different feelings.




If I was dying, I'd try to rob a jewelry store and I'd try to mimic what those two jackass thief's from Home Alone 2 did and hide in a store and wait until they closed and trash the place. Shut up. IT'D BE AWESOME RIGHT? I'm a criminology major too.. It's pretty juvenile but the rush of adrenaline is what I'd be looking for.



"It's only after we've lost everything that we're free to do anything." - Tyler Durden

Considering I dont have the money to try travel overseas, I'd probably just go on a road trip with friends. I'd come back the last days and spend time with family and just do nothing the last day and just wait peacefully.

Spend it with the people i love

Good question. A common quote I'd like to point out is living life like it's your last. I feel that plenty of people take their lives for granted. So much wasted time. If I was told I was dying, I would probably go a trip around the world with my family, you know - my own "bucket list" and check off all those things on there, and just experience the world like I never have. That said, I'd like to try crystal meth. LOL.

Originally Posted by Vogue

Good question. A common quote I'd like to point out is living life like it's your last. I feel that plenty of people take their lives for granted. So much wasted time. If I was told I was dying, I would probably go a trip around the world with my family, you know - my own "bucket list" and check off all those things on there, and just experience the world like I never have. That said, I'd like to try crystal meth. LOL.

Lol exactly the type of answers I'd like to see more. We all can assume that we love our families and cherish them and all that noise, but with all the possibilities open, there's just so much more to life I think!

6 months from now, all you'll have is a tombstone! What would you do to make yourself known to the world?!

There is a lot to life I havent experienced but I would like to live those six months outside of jail

i would take my son out of school, and ask him what HE wanted to do. what makes him happy, makes me happy.

I like the answers about spending time with people I loved and trying crystal meth. I could see myself going two routes. I'd focus on something I want to change about society and be very aggressive, vocal and definitive about getting it done. Technically, if we know the date we're going to die there's no risk of dying any sooner. This might give me the freedom to push further and more forcibly for something I believe in.

On the other hand, I've always had this far-out dream of dropping a lot of acid, doing a lot of intense mental and physical conditioning and basically trying to see if mind expansion is real. I like to think that years from now we'll have a lot more control over LSD or nootropic drugs, so that we won't freak out when we take them but will instead reap the benefits of that heightened awareness and hypersensitivity to one's surroundings.

Or I'd rob a bank, Inside Man style.

Originally Posted by cochese

I like the answers about spending time with people I loved and trying crystal meth. I could see myself going two routes. I'd focus on something I want to change about society and be very aggressive, vocal and definitive about getting it done. Technically, if we know the date we're going to die there's no risk of dying any sooner. This might give me the freedom to push further and more forcibly for something I believe in.

On the other hand, I've always had this far-out dream of dropping a lot of acid, doing a lot of intense mental and physical conditioning and basically trying to see if mind expansion is real. I like to think that years from now we'll have a lot more control over LSD or nootropic drugs, so that we won't freak out when we take them but will instead reap the benefits of that heightened awareness and hypersensitivity to one's surroundings.

Or I'd rob a bank, Inside Man style.

Dude, I'm in. I could even sacrifice myself for a pulpy beating just to fool the popo.