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You only have 24 hrs to live. Everything is exactly as it is right at this moment. If you are healthy you are healthy, if you are sick you are sick, etc. No changes in your current condition except you know that 24 hrs from this moment you will die. What would you do with your last 24 hours?
 

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ephesus said:
I would probably fear death as most do and resist it, but as John the Baptist said when he was threatened with death you free me.

Although I do not want to go yet I do look forward to it!
I just have a low tollerance of pain, and how i am to die is important to me.
Peter

But what would you do with your time?
 
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freewilly said:
You only have 24 hrs to live. Everything is exactly as it is right at this moment. If you are healthy you are healthy, if you are sick you are sick, etc. No changes in your current condition except you know that 24 hrs from this moment you will die. What would you do with your last 24 hours?

With my daughter. Just having a lovely day together and letting her know that i love her with all my heart
 
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freewilly said:
You only have 24 hrs to live. Everything is exactly as it is right at this moment. If you are healthy you are healthy, if you are sick you are sick, etc. No changes in your current condition except you know that 24 hrs from this moment you will die. What would you do with your last 24 hours?

I would choose one thing...probably a simple evening with my wife and son, and do it right. I would go nowhere nor try to do anything "special" That would be wasting the day.
 
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I have no idea, but I think I would pray alot and prepare myself to meet God. I would spend time making arrangements, discussing things with my husband, last wishes that kind of thing, future of my children, and then, I HOPE that I would spend some time telling people about Jesus.

I enjoy questions like this, BTW. It was very thought provoking.
 
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freewilly said:
You only have 24 hrs to live. Everything is exactly as it is right at this moment. If you are healthy you are healthy, if you are sick you are sick, etc. No changes in your current condition except you know that 24 hrs from this moment you will die. What would you do with your last 24 hours?

I went to Mass, went to confession, received communion... I'd say the last 24 hours would be a great time to go. I'd probably spend the day calling friends and family and rejoice :)
 
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Me I would tell my children again how much I love them and remind them, like I have always told them I will always be with them in there heart and memories.

That wouldn't take 24 hrs so, I would go to a movie, I love movies, watch the sun set I love sunsets. I have so many pictures I have taken of them. I would definitely have a strawberry margherita. Driving fast and furious sounds like fun.
 
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freewilly said:
You only have 24 hrs to live. Everything is exactly as it is right at this moment. If you are healthy you are healthy, if you are sick you are sick, etc. No changes in your current condition except you know that 24 hrs from this moment you will die. What would you do with your last 24 hours?
I'll get up tomorrow, around 5:30. Make coffee, for my wife and tea for myself. Then go see my mother who is in hospice care, and feed her breakfast. Then on to Church. After that lunch with my wife. Then maybe we'll go do something, take a drive , go shopping, just pass the time. I don't think I'll mention my immenant demise, as it would spoil our last day together.
 
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Harlan Norris said:
I don't think I'll mention my immenant demise, as it would spoil our last day together.


Interesting but don't you think your wife would want the chance to say goodbye? Suppose she found out somehow after you died that knew and never told her?
 
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You only have 24 hrs to live. Everything is exactly as it is right at this moment. If you are healthy you are healthy, if you are sick you are sick, etc. No changes in your current condition except you know that 24 hrs from this moment you will die. What would you do with your last 24 hours?

I would go to my parents place, and ask my siblings to meet me there as well. We'd all spend those last hours together. I would ensure that my son was legally taken care of (leaving him to one of my siblings, etc). I would spend some time alone, talking to God, preparing myself to meet Him, during that 24 hours. I would probably spend the last 4 hours in bed with my little boy. Reading to him, or cuddled up to him, smoothing his hair back from his face, telling him how precious he is to me, and how much he has given to me. I would remind him that though I would be gone from this world, I would still be in his heart and in his mind, and that I would always love him. I'd tell him that one day we would be together again in heaven. I'd probably have one of my family members make a video of me, talking to my child, so that he could play it again, whenever he wanted to do that. We would read the bible during the last hour or so, and pray.

Nothing is more important to me then family.
 
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