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Think terminal illness, know in advance but can't do anything about it anymore kind of dying.

(This was prompted by a really weird dream of mine.)

Basically, what would you? Would you seek reconciliation with your friends, family, people whom you've been at odds with? Would you try to experience a few things you always wanted to try? Would you fight it to the bitter end doing anything you could to try to get better?

For me...I honestly can't say. I can say I really don't like the idea of death and would much rather live, but on the same token I wouldn't want to make my family or whomever keep spending enormous amounts of money to try to keep me alive if it turns out I'm going to die anyway so...I don't know.

I do know I very much never want to find out, though.

Would you fight it to the bitter end doing anything you could to try to get better?This, unless it was a mental illness (Alzheimer, CJD...), which is the only scenario I can imagine where I'd consider suicide.

Take my arms and legs, I'll cope. Take my eye, I'll be rather annoyed. Take my brains... No. Just no. I'm aware that having soup for a brain actually keeps people happy when they're treated well, but it's not a happiness I desire, and I do not wish to be remembered as a vegetable.

In before retards who say they'd go on a rape/pillage/killfest but are actually talking shit.

In before retards who say they'd go on a rape/pillage/killfest but are actually talking shit.I wish I could. But my physical constitution is far too poor to do this now, nevermind doing it when actually being sick to the point of dying.

I'd like to go skydiving, but even if I was dying I'd probably be too lazy to lug myself out to Skydive City (or wherever skydiving happens). I'd act normally. Just go around talking with friends, playing games, etc etc, until I was too weak to.

Then I'd commit suicide.

Live exactly the way I've been living. I'll die when I die, but I've got way too much to do to waste time worrying about some terminal disease.

I'd take my brother on a trip aross Europe and Asia. I'd then spend every free second with my friends and family.

At some stage, if the illness was seriously damaging, physically or mentally, I'd consider suicide.

But before then I'd try to have the greatest time possible.

I would probably behave oddly.

I would probably behave oddly.

So you wouldn't do anything different?

I would make sure my finances are in order.

I would make sure my finances are in order.

I'd try and et some finances to put in order. :(

I'd try and et some finances to put in order. :(

Someone should write a film script about a group of terminally ill people planning a bank heist

Someone should write a film script about a group of terminally ill people planning a bank heist

rofl, I'm sure someone could come with a really good title and tagline for that film.

In before retards who say they'd go on a rape/pillage/killfest but are actually talking shit.

Although I bet some NSGers (no, I'm not mentioning names) would wait until the last week or so and then do an EPIC death-by-mod on NSG. Not me, mind you, as I have enough forethought to leave my account alive and reclaim it after reincarnation.

rofl, I'm sure someone could come with a really good title and tagline for that film.

Death Robbers

Nothing to lose. Nothing to gain. In it for the lulz.

Although I bet some NSGers (no, I'm not mentioning names) would wait until the last week or so and then do an EPIC death-by-mod on NSG. Not me, mind you, as I have enough forethought to leave my account alive and reclaim it after reincarnation.

I bet a lot would do that. If I was dying, the last couple days before death, I would probably open the very fires of hell onto somebody and get banned moments later.

Death Robbers

Nothing to lose. Nothing to gain. In it for the lulz.


Closing Balance or Final Account

Would I still be able to post on NGS?

Closing Balance or Final Account

Oooh, much better.

Oooh, much better.

I still like your tagline though.

It would depend how I was dying. If by a slowly progressing disease that left me with reasonable mobility and mental faculties for a period (maybe cancer?) I'd probably react differently than if I was wasting away in a hospital bed somewhere.

I would like to speak to those I've conned/scammed/betrayed/destroyed/cheated/lied to over the course of the last ten or so years. Partially to gloat but mainly because I'd like to see their faces, especially those who don't even realise they've been wronged.

Probably resolve to do the same old shit, different day. I would probably consider 'changing my life' to be admitting that death has the power to change me.


I would like to speak to those I've conned/scammed/betrayed/destroyed/cheated/lied to over the course of the last ten or so years. Partially to gloat but mainly because I'd like to see their faces, especially those who don't even realise they've been wronged.

Ha! Something tells me they would probably gloat right back!

I'd make a thread on NSG.

I'd make a thread on NSG.

/thread

Probably resolve to do the same old shit, different day. I would probably consider 'changing my life' to be admitting that death has the power to change me.



Ha! Something tells me they would probably gloat right back!

Some would be in a position to say "you deserve this death", yeah. :) A lot of the things I've done to people/friends has irreperably damaged their life or financies, and I've gotten away with it (and in many cases have maintained the friendship after the fact).

Some would be in a position to say "you deserve this death", yeah. :) A lot of the things I've done to people/friends has irreperably damaged their life or financies, and I've gotten away with it (and in many cases have maintained the friendship after the fact).

You remind me of the villains in Scooby Doo, only you've managed to successfully elude those 'pesky kids'.

Is that all you would do though? Considering you claim to only behave in a socially acceptable way due to fear of punishment, with imminent death looming it's not going to matter anymore.

Some would be in a position to say "you deserve this death", yeah. :) A lot of the things I've done to people/friends has irreperably damaged their life or financies, and I've gotten away with it (and in many cases have maintained the friendship after the fact).

You're psychologically disturbed. Seek help.

Live exactly the way I've been living. I'll die when I die, but I've got way too much to do to waste time worrying about some terminal disease.

This. We could die at any moment, why spend life worrying about it? Yes, we should be conscious of our own mortality, but there are better things to do with our time. If we live like we're dying, we run into the danger of forgetting to live.

I'd make a thread on NSG.
I think I used this exact same answer on this very same topic the last time it came up, it also had thesame reply.

Is that all you would do though? Considering you claim to only behave in a socially acceptable way due to fear of punishment, with imminent death looming it's not going to matter anymore.

I don't know. It's a possibility, however, the majority of my behaviour is impulsive so it'd depend on my mood.

You're psychologically disturbed. Seek help.

No thanks.

Ok, now to answer the OP:

There are things I've always been curious about, but never been able to try. Ergo, first order of business is to steal a jumbo jet, and see if I can make it do a barrel roll (of which I'm reasonably certain), and then a loop (I think the wings might rip off - but I want to check).

Ok, now to answer the OP:

There are things I've always been curious about, but never been able to try. Ergo, first order of business is to steal a jumbo jet, and see if I can make it do a barrel roll (of which I'm reasonably certain), and then a loop (I think the wings might rip off - but I want to check).

Ya gonna take a parashute?

Ya gonna take a parashute?

What for?

What for?

Just incase you change your mind.

Just incase you change your mind.

According to the OP, I'm dying anyway.

According to the OP, I'm dying anyway.

Yeah, but maybe not at that very second, you might wanna barrel role a train or something.

Yeah, but maybe not at that very second, you might wanna barrel roll a train or something.

Oooooh..

Ok, I'll take a parachute.

Oooooh..

Ok, I'll take a parachute.

I would love to see someone do that. If you ever become terminally ill you've gotto do it.

I would love to see someone do that. If you ever become terminally ill you've gotto do it.

I'll need help constructing some sort of a reinforced steel ramp...

I'll need help constructing some sort of a reinforced steel ramp...

I'm up for it, tell me when you're about to die, yeah?

Step one: Post long post on NSG of how I really feel about certain posters, in very colorful language. Include several apologies, and a description of my condition, to tell that I will no longer be posting. Step two: Pass my next few days with a mixture of writing, posting on NSG on my condition (Making NSG my personal blog.:D), finishing up that WCIII map at last, and telling some of my family members how much I love them. Notice that sleep in not included in that list.:p Step three: Die, and finally find out what's in the great beyond.

Step one: Post long post on NSG of how I really feel about certain posters, in very colorful language. Include several apologies, and a description of my condition, to tell that I will no longer be posting. Step two: Pass my next few days banned from NSG

Fixed :tongue:

Fixed :tongue:

Step 1.5: Bribe the mods.:tongue:

I were told I was about to die, I would just go ahead and enjoy what's left of my life with the ones I love. Simple.

I would probably behave oddly.
Oddly for you or oddly for the rest of us? :tongue:
Someone should write a film script about a group of terminally ill people planning a bank heist
hmmm... sounds too close to this (http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0079219/).


me? make a bucket list and see how far I get.

I already know what I would do if I were dying. First off I'm not hard up for money and can afford to do what I am about to say.

I would find a nice place in Hawaii or some other nice tropical location and bring everyone I cared about down for a week. I would throw the biggest bash they ever seen and go out with a good memory of having fun.

rofl, I'm sure someone could come with a really good title and tagline for that film.

Gone in 60 seconds.

Wait.... that's already been used and it would be a boring film if those people died after 1 minute of the heist.

after thinking it over...

I'd probably seek out those on NSG to visit them and say "Hello"... and "Goodbye".

after thinking it over...

I'd probably seek out those on NSG to visit them and say "Hello"... and "Goodbye".

Now I'm sad.:(

I'd probably do pretty much what I'm doing now - spending what money I have on things that interest me, being lazy, reading, eating, posting senseless trivia on NSG, irritating my kids, teasing my cats, going to baseball games - whatever.

I can't imagine a life better than the one I have right now. It's pretty much what I've worked for - financial security and living where I want to live. So I'd just enjoy it to the fullest and hope I die before the economy sucks it up totally.

I would fly myself and my surrogate sister up to Seattle, so I could spend my last weeks with all the people who love me.

This, unless it was a mental illness (Alzheimer, CJD...), which is the only scenario I can imagine where I'd consider suicide.

Take my arms and legs, I'll cope. Take my eye, I'll be rather annoyed.

Ugh. No way, not for me. I'd probably kill myself if they took my legs. Like, one leg, maaaaybe I could manage, but both? Forget it. Hands? FORGET IT. I'm not too happy with life a lot of the time as it is, with a whole, functional body. That may sound really petty, but it's the truth.

If i were dying i would try to jizz in the white house.

Depending on the prognosis (a year til death? six months? a week?) my actions would vary, but mostly, I'd try to spend a lot of time with people I love, doing things I love. Say I had a month: I'd stop saving up money and go on a trip, eat whatever the hell I wanted (deep-fried pb&j, I mean you!) and give my mom lots of hugs. I'd kidnap my ex from his work, drag him to a resort hotel and keep him in bed for a week (he'd be okay with it, don't worry). Close to the end of my time, I'd read my poetry in the street. I'd run onto the field at the Coliseum and kiss Bobby Crosby. I'd give my remaining money away to friends and charity. And when I got too sick to enjoy life anymore, I'd kill myself.

I would finally get around to writing the book about my life and observations on the many different things I've observed. Then I would find a nice house/hotel/apartment on the beach and wait out my days watching the waves come in.

In before retards who say they'd go on a rape/pillage/killfest but are actually talking shit.
I used to think I'd go on a big killfest, but my experience with Murphy's Law has taught me that right after I did that, a cure (or at least effective life-prolonging treatments) would be developed, causing me to spend the rest of my long-once-again life in jail.

As for what other things I'd do, it depends on the disease. At best I'd probably just keep playing games--I sure wouldn't be spending my last days "being productive!" At worst, suicide.

In before retards who say they'd go on a rape/pillage/killfest but are actually talking shit.

I"d be one of those retards who'd go on a killfest. :p

Seriously though, I'd seek out closure on a few fronts, have sex one more time with an Asian goth, donate my money to the No-Kill Shelters, write something for my nephew and niece, have one more Wiccan Ritual, and then go to Germany, to the town where my family came from and die there.

Ugh. No way, not for me. I'd probably kill myself if they took my legs. Like, one leg, maaaaybe I could manage, but both? Forget it. Hands? FORGET IT. I'm not too happy with life a lot of the time as it is, with a whole, functional body. That may sound really petty, but it's the truth.

Seriously? That seems pretty shallow.

A bucket list is related to your personal finances. And forgiving everyone? I mean everyone? Nah.

I like to think that for the most part I would do everything I do now anyway. There are some people I love who I've fallen out with, but mostly I've already done my best to reconcile those as best as I can.

Think terminal illness, know in advance but can't do anything about it anymore kind of dying.


I'd make a serious attempt for the Ethanol Nirvana.

If i were dying i would try to jizz in the white house.

How hard could it possibly be? Take the tour, got to the bathroom and rub one out.

If i were dying i would try to jizz in the white house.

^ This, but in Buckingham Palace- it' more iconic.

How hard could it possibly be? Take the tour, got to the bathroom and rub one out.

last time i was on the tour they didn't have any bathrooms. maybe they did pre 9/11

last time i was on the tour they didn't have any bathrooms. maybe they did pre 9/11

Someone might leave a WMD there after a curry.

Someone might leave a WMD there after a curry.

what happens after I eat curry has been ruled a WMD by SCOTUS, and subjects me to water boarding.

It is just a 15 minute get in get out type of tour now.

Borrow a huge amount of money, buy an assload of old, rare, irreplaceable wines, and get drunk as a monkey.:p

Borrow a huge amount of money, buy an assload of old, rare, irreplaceable wines, and get drunk as a monkey.:p

*steals wines before jim can drink it*
*throws down smoke bomb and disappears*
*gets drunk as a monkey*
*sends jim video of drinking last of the irreplaceable wines*

(Assuming I had a non-contagious but terminal ilness) I'd wander the Earth and spread my seed amongst as many females as possible in an attempt to father scores of progeny who would then fight amongst each other to the death until only one was left alive, then I would possess their body and proceed to rule over humanity.

(Assuming I had a non-contagious but terminal ilness) I'd wander the Earth and spread my seed amongst as many females as possible in an attempt to father scores of progeny who would then fight amongst each other to the death until only one was left alive, then I would possess their body and proceed to rule over humanity.Sorry but unless you're an animal who doesn't reason well, you won't pass down your legacy or knowledge or mentality. Too bad :p


On a related note, what would you do if you had some disease like spinocerebellar ataxia, making you unable to move or speak? (actually assume you can still have limited movement ;)). Like the opposite of Alzheimer (you lose control over your body instead of your brain)?

Myself -- I would try to do what I feared before, maybe experimentally replace some organs with cybernetic, dunno. If it doesn't work (high chance) at least I wouldn't get a worse outcome.

Sorry but unless you're an animal who doesn't reason well, you won't pass down your legacy or knowledge or mentality. Too bad :p

Nonsense, yes I can, just watch me!

Sorry but unless you're an animal who doesn't reason well, you won't pass down your legacy or knowledge or mentality. Too bad :p


On a related note, what would you do if you had some disease like spinocerebellar ataxia, making you unable to move or speak? (actually assume you can still have limited movement ;)). Like the opposite of Alzheimer (you lose control over your body instead of your brain)?

Myself -- I would try to do what I feared before, maybe experimentally replace some organs with cybernetic, dunno. If it doesn't work (high chance) at least I wouldn't get a worse outcome.
That would scare me very much. I would find some way of communicating, some method by which I could actually at least have contact with others.

I think, personally, to many people it is worse than Alzheimer because you are aware the whole time, which makes it a very cruel disease (that exists, also incurable). If you don't have a brain at least you won't be capable of awareness that you are sick and dying.

But to me, I don't know. I'm a somewhat absolutist oriented, and really not selfish (this means I don't care only about myself, but not necessarily that I am very altruistic), so losing my brain would be worse than even enduring that cruel disease. I realize very few share my opinion though.

Seriously? That seems pretty shallow.

Since I already acknowledged that and you felt the need to repeat it, I'd like to ask what exactly you find so "shallow" about it.

On a related note, what would you do if you had some disease like spinocerebellar ataxia, making you unable to move or speak? (actually assume you can still have limited movement ;)). Like the opposite of Alzheimer (you lose control over your body instead of your brain)?

I've already had this talk with my mom. Should something like that ever happen to me, she knows I would not want to live. We've worked it out, but I'm not going to post it, because one, it's just not a good idea, and two, major jinx, dude.

If i were dying i would try to jizz in the white house.

Why wait until you are dying? After all, as Robert Earl Keen said, "You are either living fast, or dying slow."

Why wait until you are dying? After all, as Robert Earl Keen said, "You are either living fast, or dying slow."

I am trying to do it the slow way either donate enough money to the party in power I get to spend the night in the Lincoln bed room, or wait until hilalry gets elected and seduce her.

You know the film "Love Actually"? Yes I know it's a soppy romance with Hugh Grant in it but the very beginning of the film always brings tears to my eyes.

Hugh Grant in voiceover says that the people on the hijacked 9/11 flights used their mobile phones. He went on to say that none of the conversations made to friends and family were messages of hate. They were messages of love.

I'd like to think I would do some good till I was no longer capable of doing it. Then maybe I'd go for a nice long swim in the ocean..........

*steals wines before jim can drink it*
*throws down smoke bomb and disappears*
*gets drunk as a monkey*
*sends jim video of drinking last of the irreplaceable wines*

Hey, some butt-nugget stole my wine.

I am trying to do it the slow way either donate enough money to the party in power I get to spend the night in the Lincoln bed room, or wait until hillary gets elected and seduce her.

Ewww. Dude, she's not going to get any better looking, and she started out ugly enough to scare the stink off shit. I guess now we know what you need the wine for.

Now I'm sad.:(

:fluffle:

http://www.ozfoxes.com/fp/fp-1075.jpg

:fluffle:

http://www.ozfoxes.com/fp/fp-1075.jpg

That was so cute I have a lump in my throat and my eyes are watery.:fluffle:

Hey, some butt-nugget stole my wine.



Ewww. Dude, she's not going to get any better looking, and she started out ugly enough to scare the stink off shit. I guess now we know what you need the wine for.

*sends jim video of hooking up with president Hillary*

It is not about the woman it is about cumming in the white house.

What Would You Do If You Were Dying?

Going death by instance

It is not about the woman it is about cumming in the white house.Dead presidents aren't that useful. Do you somehow seek a red button, by any chance, while being in the process of dying? :p j/k

Think terminal illness, know in advance but can't do anything about it anymore kind of dying.

(This was prompted by a really weird dream of mine.)

Basically, what would you? Would you seek reconciliation with your friends, family, people whom you've been at odds with? Would you try to experience a few things you always wanted to try? Would you fight it to the bitter end doing anything you could to try to get better?

For me...I honestly can't say. I can say I really don't like the idea of death and would much rather live, but on the same token I wouldn't want to make my family or whomever keep spending enormous amounts of money to try to keep me alive if it turns out I'm going to die anyway so...I don't know.

I do know I very much never want to find out, though.

Not believe the news.

Die.

Dead presidents aren't that useful. Do you somehow seek a red button, by any chance, while being in the process of dying? :p j/k

I could neither confirm or deny that.