What would you do if you had five more days to live?

[beamishboy]

What would people do if they had only 5 days to live? What food would you eat, whom do you want to see and talk to, and how will you spend the last two hours?

I know it's a little macabre for someone my age to talk about death but don't forget, I escaped death at the Bali bombing so it's only natural for me to think about death from time to time.

 

[Avatar]

Not really macabre.

I have 2 years left, maybe more, who knows? Anyway I've thought about the end. Important to have affairs in order. Financial info, life insurance, that kind of thing. Then make sure everyone has a chance to say goodbye.

Last two hours? In fairytale land it'd be me in the woods close to a lake with a gun. But that would invalidate the insurance. So it'll be in a hospital in agony trying not to show it while my loved ones try to comfort me.

 

[Sitswithamouse]

Make sure my kids have the best time possible and Chocolate.
Eat lots of chocolate.

 

[cantata]

Narcotics.

 

[sidhe]

Five days to live?

You mean you don't live like that normally?

I'd probably try to visit at least one city I'd never seen before...Amsterdam, NY, Vancouver...something like that. And then I'd paint the town scarlet.

 

[Robbie_James_Francis]

Round up some family and friends, take out a few loans, blow the overdraft and fly to as many places as possible, get wasted and have lots of sex. I'd probably stay in Europe cos I don't want to be travelling for more than 5 hours at a time in my last week on earth.

Have a party on the beach and watch the sun rise. Take heroin. Meet Morrissey, the Dalai Lama, Hugo Chavez and Stephen Fry. Chuck rotten fruit at a few people...Bush, Cameron, Brown, Mugabe, the Pope...If I'm going down I want to be on the front page before I do. Then throw myself off of the white cliffs of Dover while The Smiths play a one-off reunion gig.

 

[beamishboy]

Not really macabre.

I have 2 years left, maybe more, who knows?

You're more macabre than me. Why predict two years?

 

[The Nihilist]

Not really macabre.

I have 2 years left, maybe more, who knows? Anyway I've thought about the end. Important to have affairs in order. Financial info, life insurance, that kind of thing. Then make sure everyone has a chance to say goodbye.

Last two hours? In fairytale land it'd be me in the woods close to a lake with a gun. But that would invalidate the insurance. So it'll be in a hospital in agony trying not to show it while my loved ones try to comfort me.

Avatar, most companies (at least in the US) will pay a death benefit for suicide, if the policy was more than 2 years old.

As for me, I have a number of enemies. I would spend my last dies hunting and killing them.

 

[Isambard]

I'd rob a bank.

 

[Glass*Soul]

I would want to spend the time mostly in solidtude, I think. I definitely wouldn't want to be saying goodbye to people. I might want to spend part of each day with a spiritual director to help me put my life in some sort of perspective.

I think long walks would be in order.

 

[DeathMagus]

I'd enjoy the finer things in life. Visit a couple world-class orchestras, get my family and friends together to hang out one last time, have some sex, and do all the fun stuff that I don't do because of my reputation. I originally didn't think about it, but as someone else said, I'd like to try one or two-hour highs. If my body won't be around in a week, giving it some light abuse isn't half the deal it is when I'm young and expecting to live for another 60+ years.

 

[beamishboy]

Avatar, most companies (at least in the US) will pay a death benefit for suicide, if the policy was more than 2 years old.

As for me, I have a number of enemies. I would spend my last dies hunting and killing them.

I do hope you're joking.

 

[FaithLikeARock]

I'd spend a week at Disneyland.

Maybe I'd pass softly in the "It's A Small World" ride...

 

[DeathMagus]

Maybe I'd pass softly in the "It's A Small World" ride...

I think that ride is enough to kill me, even if I were otherwise healthy!

 

[FaithLikeARock]

I think that ride is enough to kill me, even if I were otherwise healthy!

I don't know. I think I could ride that ride for the rest of my life. It's my absolute favorite as a matter of fact.

 

[mpok1519]

I would try to fight a deer to the death with my bare hands; then I'd eat the deer; then I'd say my goodbyes to lovedones; have some beer; and probably some more beer as time ticks down.

 

[Avatar]

I would try to fight a deer to the death with my bare hands; then I'd eat the deer; then I'd say my goodbyes to lovedones; have some beer; and probably some more beer as time ticks down.

Would you cook it first?

 

[mpok1519]

I dunno....if it takes me four days to wrassle it down, then I guess I'd eat some of it raw, just for the experience. its not like I'm gonna be able to tell anyone about it, or blog it on the net, but at least I could brag to myself. hehe

 

[The Nihilist]

I do hope you're joking.

not at all. They didn't originally pay out for suicide, but they changed their policy relatively recently.




Seriously, though. I don't like goodbyes, and I've enjoyed my life. Murdering my enemies seems like an excellent way to end it.

 

[mpok1519]

yeah; infactm if there was a world-wide death count-down, I'm sure I'd enter the gladatorial ring t make my last few hours more vainglorious. =)