If you had a week to live

[Jester]

If you just found out you had a week or a month, a short time... what would be the first thing you would do?

[mono]

Interesting question. Honestly, I would actually wish I would live for a shorter time out of fear of dwelling on my own depression for that last week/month. I have questioned the quote many times: "It's better to burn out than to fade away."
To play along, however, if I did discover I had a relatively short time to live, I would spend my last moment alone in peace, reflecting on life, maybe write a last poem. So much of my own personal philosophy and subjective view on happiness relies more on being than on doing.

[den]

I'd probably spend the week planning towards `going out with a bang'. :nod:

I've already done a lot of so-called `stupid' things and still alive, I'm sure I could think of a few more that would `work'. :p

[Stanislaw]

Bungy jumping, and visiting/tracking down old lost aquaintances, maybe travel around and preach the good word

[Jay]

Don't think I'd do anything out of ordinary. Can't see any reason for that.
Call me a spoilsport, lol.

[Riddick]

I would try to incite revolusion in any country I could, that way I could be dictator for life, umm 1 week.

[Jester]

Which country Riddick, I'd go with the US

[Tabac]

...so I'd have to opt for seeing as many of the great landmarks (natural and man-made) of the world I could work in. I think I'd either start or end with the Taj Mahal.

[imthefoolonthehill]

Den's got a good point... I think I would go out with a bang... in such a way that history would remember me... but I think first I would write a few short stories or something... I dunno... maybe paint a picture, write a few love notes...

[papayahed]

I'm with Tabac on this one I think I would have to do some travelling, see the great landmarks. Then maybe on the last day try all the daredevil stuff. Wait I just changed my mind a day isn't long ebough to do the daredevil stuff, maybe the last 2 days, but then that doesn't leave room for the travelling. Can I have 2 weeks????? Please?

[Taliesin]

Start now, papayahead. You may get an extra week, when lucky. Live it as it was your last. :smash:

[Stanislaw]

That may not always be the best attitude. I think it sais something in the good book about that. :D oh well we only get 365 X 75 days so we might as well have fun!

[Jester]

For me, at 19 I have 29,433,600 minutes to live... and i've wasted one by doing the calculation, sad :(

:eek:

[Stanislaw]

indeed, it is sad to think of how many I have spent here, and probably will keep spending :eek: guess there is worse thing to waste time on though... like calculus :eek2: hehe

[Jester]

oooh definatly, almost failed Pre Calculus, passed Stats with flying colors... okay not flying but definatly colors :)

[simon]

With ere but a week I would not make a peep but eat chocolate until I weep.

[Stanislaw]

Very poetic... I think I would set my english class on fire. That would not make it so dull...

[Helga]

I would spend every moment with my dog, decide what I want to do with my stuff and plan my funeral.

[Jester]

I would fly down tot veneuesuala (????????) and then spend that time with my dogs and cats and make sure all my freinds go down there too so i can see them, oh and family of course.... as well as doing some bungee jumping and sky diving... the moment before I die, I'd like to be pushed out of a plane just so I ca fly for those moment before I die..... but then I'd go splat... (sorry)

[Shea]

Hi everyone. Please say a prayer for my Grandpa. We just found out that he has about a month because of cancer in his bronchial tubes. I'll be playing harp for him because I know that's what he would like.

When it rains it pours and I'm still trying to keep up with school!

[Stanislaw]

My condolences shia, it is always hard to lose a dear friend and relative.

Go with God, and cherish the knowledge that your Grandfather would be proud of you, and your accomplishments.

-Stan-

[Scheherazade]

Shea,

I hope your grandfather's final days among you would be the best and he leaves you with the fondest memories. While it is very hard to wait for a beloved one's departure, it is also a relief to be able to have time and opportunity to say good bye to them.

May you find the strength to face the difficult days ahead of you.

Warmest Regards

[Shea]

Thank you for the thoughts guys. He acctually only lasted about 2 weeks and he was in ICU for so long that I didn't get to play for him. But I did play for the memorial service, and Grannie really liked that. It's hard to lose him, but it's also a relief not to have to worry so much about him.

Sorry that I killed this thread (no pun intended).

[Stanislaw]

Actually, I think you brought it back on topic, so to speak. And I pass on my condolences.

[Bongitybongbong]

ur in my prayers Shea. Me
1st. day: try to get any enemy of mine to patch up our relationshhip
2-6th. day: do anything that I wanted to.(skydiving,etc.)
7th.: go back to Italy and once I die cremated with my ashes all over the mother country(Italy)

[Jester]

When I posted this thread I didn't consider that someone might be having these same thoguhts but actually be living them...
I'm sorry for you loss and hope the best to you and your family.

[amuse]

Shea, my condolences as well.
...I bet he heard when you played for him.

[JA Prufrock]

i would wear white trousers and walk upon the beach

[Shea]

When I posted this thread I didn't consider that someone might be having these same thoguhts but actually be living them...
I'm sorry for you loss and hope the best to you and your family.

Don't worry about it, you couldn't know. :) It was a good thread idea. Personally, I would play my harp anywhere I wanted to for free wearing as many different costumes as I could. (My husband gets on to me about not charging enough, when all I really want to do is play for people.)

[Jester]

you play the harpe? wow!!!

[Shea]

Sometimes I can't make up my mind which I love more, playing harp or reading books. Both are extremely relaxing to me.

[Jester]

why do you have to love one more?

[Shea]

Because I'll be making a living out of one or the other. Right now it has to be books becuase I plan to be an English teacher, but for a little while, it was the harp because I asked Oprah for a pedal harp. She never reponded and I can't really improve with out one, but thier soooo expensive!

[captain]

If I had a week left to leave, I would spend few days of it with my group of friends... We'd do all kindda fancy stuff, the ones I wanted to do but the never actually joined me.. We'd have talks and discussions on the beach at night, etc. Then I'd wear my hair in a different way, maybe change it's colour or make it curly.. I'd listen to music a lot.. I'd eat cakes and all kinds of dessert.. and I'd get a boyfriend for a day, at least.. Because those things, I will never find in the other side.. Senses of touching, hearing, tasting, sight, etc. They are important to me.. and my I would get all the attention of my friends for that week.. :D extra care and all.. I'd even learn their most secret secrets :D YAY!

[baddad]

Only a week to live? I've already skydived many times, whitewater rafted the Kicking Horse river, both upper and lower, raced motorcycles at 300kmh, etc., etc., etc. After all, I am an adrenaline junkie. But I also had horses for twelve years (they really hated skydiving) and I would want to spend my last week riding deep into the Rocky mountains. There is more beauty hidden in the mountains than anywhere else on earth. I would dictate poetry, prose and final-week insights into a little tape recorder. I would laugh and cry and curse my fate (as most pirates are wont to do). On my last day of life I would set my horses free, plunk my butt down near a waterfall and smoke pot and sip red wine, and bury my recorder tapes beneath a boulder unlikely to be moved for the next 100 milliion years. I would lament the loss of friends and loves. And than I'd go.

[Jester]

hmmm well i worte this lost it so to make it short, i suggest you go to nepal on a vacation... the mountains are spectacular, that is saying you haven't allready been there but its not the type of place to go to be alone... too many people

[manchmal]

probably i will get my love and spend the whole week with him somewhere alone maybe on the beach

[Maida]

I'd rob a bank and then spend the last week on the run. I think that would be super exciting! Oh, and I'd be able to buy whatever I wanted!

[rachel]

I would be so overwhelmed I guess that I would be worn out. Best thing for that would be to tell everyone I loved them, hugs and kisses, and then try to get all the beauty sleep I could so I wouldn't look totally ugly at the funeral!

[zanna]

I like the idea of fixing things with an enemy. I'd at least try. And tell all my fam and friends how much they mean, and play bass like crazy, and write, and read those books I didn't get a chance to yet, and make floating islands for dessert. And see cool things, like a sunrise, and the moon, etc. And scramble the team together for one last ultimate friz match. And write letters to my relatives for the future, so I could "celebrate" with them when cool stuff happened. I don't think there'd be time for much else! :)

[chasestalling]

i'd take that week and divide it in half and then divide that in half and so on to infinity.

[Shadowsarin]

As I am so so afraid of death, I guess I'd drug myself up to the point that wouldn't worry about it, because I would be so scared about it. Other than that, I guess I would see all the bands I could live, as concerts rule!

Also I would tell this girl I like how I felt about her. Maybe.

*Woo! 100th post!*

[Pendragon]

If I had a week to live, tell you the truth, I wouldn't change a thing.
I'd just call up my sisters and my brothers to tell them not to worry,
That my final arrangements are in order, and I will be OK.
Go down and sit a while with mama, tell her "Goodnight, see you on the other side."
My wife and I would go ahead and celebrate our anniversary,
Have to hold her in my arms one final time.
Give the kids their Christmas early this year and make it special,
With laughter, pictures, poems, and songs from my old guitar.
Take one final walk down to my favorite spot along the trail
To listen to the waterfall whispering good-bye...
Tell my kids how much I'm proud of them, and to remember I'm not all that far away...
And when the sun finally went down on that final day...
I don't fear Death when He comes calling, close my eyes and I'll be gone
Knowing that I tried to do my best while I was around...

Pen

[downing]

I would gather around my entire family and talk to them as much as posible!

[farnoosh]

if i had 1 week to live ...
maybe all look out the window to the nature ..
and think about all the peoples down there ...and just cry

just cry

just cry

[livelaughlove]

I would want to spend my last minute with something or someone I love - so either with horses, my dog, or some of my closest friends.

[formality hater]

I would probably throw a grand party and have a high time with my friends(for the last time:().

[applepie]

I would just go away with my family somewhere special where we could make some great memories. Maybe the Badlands in South Dakota. It is one of my favorite places that I've ever visited. If not there, then I would have to say Yellowstone National Park.

[kiobe]

I would try to incite revolusion in any country I could, that way I could be dictator for life, umm 1 week.


Which country Riddick, I'd go with the US

We already have one.

[Durgamol]

first i would sit and cry. then i would sell all the things i have to pay for a nice trip for my partner, my family and me - spending some quality time with them is always the most important thing in my life

[corticalaxon]

Sunday: Incite revolution.
Monday: Go to the Amazon.
Tuesday: Climb Mt. Everest.
Wednesday: Go to England, France, Germany, and Switzerland.
Thursday: Go to India, China, and Japan.
Friday: Hang out.
Sat: Take the SATs :confused: :D Write a short treatise on my experience.
Sunday: Die?

[Bakiryu]

Monday: Get very, very, very drunk (and high)
Tuesday: have a Playboy party ;)
Wednesday: Write a poem, read a book and paint a portrait
Thurstay: party 'til dark
Friday: write my will
Satursay: go to cuba and kill fidel castro
SundaY : shoot myself

[Turk]

Satursay: go to cuba and kill fidel castro


Fidel is the one of few Cubans i respect.

If i had a week to live, i would apologize from all people i broke their hear. Try to fix all bad things i've done. And if i still have time, say goodbye to my family and to not to die like a sick dog, i would go and join war in Cechenistan.

[kiobe]

I'd like to sit on the moon and look back at the earth. Drink some really good scotch. Smoke a cuban cigar.

[Bakiryu]

Fidel is the one of few Cubans i respect.

You respect a heartless dictator who is responsible for hunger, chaos and starvation?!

[motherhubbard]

I'd write letters to my children for later and spend every moment with my husband and kids. Maybe we could all stay in the bed and tell stories and play. And I would pray, pray, pray... and probably I would worry about who would cook and clean for everyone.

[kiobe]

Don't bother Bakiryu, he won't get it.

[Bakiryu]

:crash:
Don't bother Bakiryu, he won't get it.

I know, It just makes me a bit mad that he respects the guy responsible for me leaving my country.:sick:

[kiobe]

:crash:

I know, It just makes me a bit mad that he respects the guy responsible for me leaving my country.:sick:

Hearing that makes my eyes tear. Losing your homeland is something no one should have to go thru.

[Bakiryu]

Thanks man. Your words are appreciated.


Anyway If i had one week to leave i'd go to: http://i7.photobucket.com/albums/y289/cazkiwi/StripClub.gif

[kiobe]

*^____^* Oh yea.

[Bakiryu]

(They just built one right in front of my house) ;)

[kiobe]

(They just built one right in front of my house) ;)

Really? That's just way too convienent. (*)(*)

[Bakiryu]

The still won't let me in *tries to hold back tears* not until I prove I'm 18!!!

[kiobe]

The still won't let me in *tries to hold back tears* not until I prove I'm 18!!!

Some friends and I went to a joint at lunch time. It was really wierd eating a hamburger at the "rack" while the girls danced.

[Turk]

You respect a heartless dictator who is responsible for hunger, chaos and starvation?!

Today Cuba is much better than other Latin American countries, and life expectation in Cuba equal to developed countries. If USA embargo wouldn't happen it could be even better.


Don't bother Bakiryu, he won't get it.

Did you even read an article, not a book, about Cuban history and revolution? No? I am not surprised.

[kiobe]

Today Cuba is much better than other Latin American countries, and life expectation in Cuba equal to developed countries. If USA embargo wouldn't happen it could be even better.



Did you even read an article, not a book, about Cuban history and revolution? No? I am not surprised.

I think he (Bakiryu) lived there and then left. If so, no book or article needed.

[Turk]

Unfortunately history won't build on Bakiryu's life.

[Scheherazade]

Please do not personalise your comments!

OP of the thread:
If you just found out you had a week or a month, a short time... what would be the first thing you would do?

[Mortis Anarchy]

Sunday-Go to Church and spend time with family- then cry at night
Monday-Cry and think and write and paint and read
Tuesday-

ah, I don't know. I've never been big on planning things...so I would just wing it. I think for the most part I would do everything that I wouldn't be allowed to do or didn't do. and cry.

Travel is what my mind and heart tell me to do.