If you only had 24 hours to live... - Page 2

HungLikeJesus · 08-28-2008, 03:56 PM

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Originally Posted by lookout123

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I'd keep the bed rockin with Mrs L until I fell over dead.

Is Mrs. L going to want that memory?

lookout123 · 08-28-2008, 03:59 PM

At least I'd have been memorable in the sack at least once.

Aliantha · 08-28-2008, 05:49 PM

If I only had 24 hours to live, I think I'd spend most of it talking to my kids about what I think would be good decisions in their lives. Try and impart as much wisdom as possible and provide them with the knowledge I'd pass on bit by bit if my life were not to be cut short. I suppose I'd do a fair bit of crying. I'd try and make plans with Dazza about what to do with the kids and leave a letter along with my will explaining fully what my wishes are. Most of my family would probably come over if they heard about it, so there'd probably be a lot of people around, but my closest family are the ones I'd want to be with.

I'd leave my friends in charge of the wake. I'm sure they'd do a good job.

DanaC · 08-28-2008, 06:12 PM

I know it's wrong......and I am sure were such a terrible scenario to actually occur, I wouldn't really......but.....it did just flash through my mind, unbidden, that I could fit in quite a few epsiodes of classic Doctor Who....

Elspode · 08-28-2008, 06:39 PM

Was this a serious question? If so, then I'd try to spend a few hours talking to everyone about whom I care, and telling them how important they'd been in my life. I would then gather my extended family around (assuming, of course, they weren't too busy to attend), and we'd talk about our history, about our shared lives, about the future.

Somewhere along the line that day, I'd be doing a lot of fucking.

DanaC · 08-28-2008, 06:47 PM

On a serious note, I am really not sure. The whole spend the day with nearest and dearest cementing connections and saying a meaningful goodbye sounds like my idea of hell. All that raw emotion. I suspect it might depend on a few different things. Am I the only one that's aware of the ticking clock, for example? If my family knew, then I would spend that time with them, in just the ways described here.

If they didn't? I would still spend that time with them, but I do not know if I would make them aware of it. 24 hours is not even close to the barest hint of enough time for a mother to come to terms with their child's impending death. 24 hour's notice, or told after the fact, is almost the same degree of shock. Perhaps better to make that time brilliant, without the clock ticking in everyone's ears.

classicman · 08-28-2008, 09:45 PM

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Originally Posted by Undertoad

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Originally Posted by lookout123

At least I'd have been memorable in the sack at least once.

Sundae · 08-29-2008, 05:11 AM

I'd be straight on the phone to my parents.
Wherever they were (home, house-sitting, abroad) I'd spend my last day with them.

Slap up meal and a few cocktails. My Mum would be all No Nonsense and Don't Spoil Her Last Day so it would be easy to forget the coming event.

Oh I'd have to fit in saying goodbye on here of course.

DanaC · 08-29-2008, 06:26 AM

Actually, knowing my luck I'd fall asleep on the sofa and wake up with an hour to go :P

Perry Winkle · 08-29-2008, 07:32 AM

I'd say goodbye with a text message/email blast to everyone in my contact list. Then I'd just relax and do whatever I wanted for the rest of my time. No messages. No blowout. Just going my own way.

Strange, that's how I live my life most days.

HungLikeJesus · 08-29-2008, 08:57 AM

I'd send back these shoes I just ordered.

smoothmoniker · 08-29-2008, 03:00 PM

Rent a sailboat, put it on a tack, run west until the clock runs out.

wolf · 08-30-2008, 03:47 PM

I think I might spend the day doing the sorts of things I've always been convinced will kill me, since I know that I have a specific amount of time until I go and therefore wouldn't buy the farm doing any of the activities (unless I'd timed it just right) I could try bungie jumping, hang gliding, and jumping out of a perfectly good airplane.

xoxoxoBruce · 08-31-2008, 01:03 AM

Max out my credit and dump it in the tip jar.

wolf · 08-31-2008, 01:29 AM

As always, Bruce has the best answer!

08-28-2008, 03:59 PM	#17
lookout123 changed his status to single Join Date: Apr 2004 Location: Right behind you. No, the other side. Posts: 10,308	At least I'd have been memorable in the sack at least once. __________________ Getting knocked down is no sin, it's not getting back up that's the sin

08-28-2008, 05:49 PM	#18
Aliantha trying hard to be a better person Join Date: Jan 2006 Location: Brisbane, Australia Posts: 16,493	If I only had 24 hours to live, I think I'd spend most of it talking to my kids about what I think would be good decisions in their lives. Try and impart as much wisdom as possible and provide them with the knowledge I'd pass on bit by bit if my life were not to be cut short. I suppose I'd do a fair bit of crying. I'd try and make plans with Dazza about what to do with the kids and leave a letter along with my will explaining fully what my wishes are. Most of my family would probably come over if they heard about it, so there'd probably be a lot of people around, but my closest family are the ones I'd want to be with. I'd leave my friends in charge of the wake. I'm sure they'd do a good job. __________________ Kind words are the music of the world. F. W. Faber

08-28-2008, 06:39 PM	#20
Elspode When Do I Get Virtual Unreality? Join Date: Dec 2002 Location: Raytown, Missouri Posts: 12,719	Was this a serious question? If so, then I'd try to spend a few hours talking to everyone about whom I care, and telling them how important they'd been in my life. I would then gather my extended family around (assuming, of course, they weren't too busy to attend), and we'd talk about our history, about our shared lives, about the future. Somewhere along the line that day, I'd be doing a lot of fucking. __________________ "To those of you who are wearing ties, I think my dad would appreciate it if you took them off." - Robert Moog

08-29-2008, 08:57 AM	#26
HungLikeJesus Only looks like a disaster tourist Join Date: Feb 2007 Location: above 7,000 feet Posts: 7,208	I'd send back these shoes I just ordered. __________________ Keep Your Bodies Off My Lawn SteveDallas's Random Thread Picker.

08-29-2008, 03:00 PM	#27
smoothmoniker to live and die in LA Join Date: Feb 2003 Location: Los Angeles Posts: 2,090	Rent a sailboat, put it on a tack, run west until the clock runs out. __________________ to live and die in LA

08-28-2008, 06:12 PM	#19
DanaC We have to go back, Kate! Join Date: Apr 2004 Location: Yorkshire Posts: 25,964	I know it's wrong......and I am sure were such a terrible scenario to actually occur, I wouldn't really......but.....it did just flash through my mind, unbidden, that I could fit in quite a few epsiodes of classic Doctor Who....

08-28-2008, 06:47 PM	#21
DanaC We have to go back, Kate! Join Date: Apr 2004 Location: Yorkshire Posts: 25,964	On a serious note, I am really not sure. The whole spend the day with nearest and dearest cementing connections and saying a meaningful goodbye sounds like my idea of hell. All that raw emotion. I suspect it might depend on a few different things. Am I the only one that's aware of the ticking clock, for example? If my family knew, then I would spend that time with them, in just the ways described here. If they didn't? I would still spend that time with them, but I do not know if I would make them aware of it. 24 hours is not even close to the barest hint of enough time for a mother to come to terms with their child's impending death. 24 hour's notice, or told after the fact, is almost the same degree of shock. Perhaps better to make that time brilliant, without the clock ticking in everyone's ears.

08-29-2008, 05:11 AM	#23
Sundae polaroid of perfection Join Date: Sep 2005 Location: West Yorkshire Posts: 24,185	I'd be straight on the phone to my parents. Wherever they were (home, house-sitting, abroad) I'd spend my last day with them. Slap up meal and a few cocktails. My Mum would be all No Nonsense and Don't Spoil Her Last Day so it would be easy to forget the coming event. Oh I'd have to fit in saying goodbye on here of course.

08-29-2008, 06:26 AM	#24
DanaC We have to go back, Kate! Join Date: Apr 2004 Location: Yorkshire Posts: 25,964	Actually, knowing my luck I'd fall asleep on the sofa and wake up with an hour to go :P

08-29-2008, 07:32 AM	#25
Perry Winkle Esnohplad Semaj Ton Join Date: Feb 2005 Location: A little south of sanity Posts: 2,259	I'd say goodbye with a text message/email blast to everyone in my contact list. Then I'd just relax and do whatever I wanted for the rest of my time. No messages. No blowout. Just going my own way. Strange, that's how I live my life most days.

08-30-2008, 03:47 PM	#28
wolf lobber of scimitars Join Date: Jul 2001 Location: Phila Burbs Posts: 20,774	I think I might spend the day doing the sorts of things I've always been convinced will kill me, since I know that I have a specific amount of time until I go and therefore wouldn't buy the farm doing any of the activities (unless I'd timed it just right) I could try bungie jumping, hang gliding, and jumping out of a perfectly good airplane. __________________ wolf eht htiw og "Conspiracies are the norm, not the exception." --G. Edward Griffin The Creature from Jekyll Island High Priestess of the Church of the Whale Penis

08-31-2008, 01:03 AM	#29
xoxoxoBruce The future is unwritten Join Date: Oct 2002 Posts: 71,105	Max out my credit and dump it in the tip jar. __________________ The descent of man ~ Nixon, Friedman, Reagan, Trump.

08-31-2008, 01:29 AM	#30
wolf lobber of scimitars Join Date: Jul 2001 Location: Phila Burbs Posts: 20,774	As always, Bruce has the best answer! __________________ wolf eht htiw og "Conspiracies are the norm, not the exception." --G. Edward Griffin The Creature from Jekyll Island High Priestess of the Church of the Whale Penis

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