What would you do if you had a week to live?

Andail · Tue 17/02/2009 10:19:38

I like how Nacho gets a PM for his post, and then Tuomas composes this drunk rant which is pretty much out of line even in a less serious discussion...

Nacho · Tue 17/02/2009 11:26:55

I will explain my reply, better, again, for the skeptics.

I like that girl... Not because she is gorgeous (she is) but mostly because she seems cool (Actually, what made me see her as "my favourite model" was when, during her divorce, she won some pounds... and went on modelling. She is a person who is proud of being "normal". A non skinny, voluptuous girl who doesn't fit the modeling conventionalisms... and doesn't care.

If you browse the internet propperly (not just looking nude pics of her) you' ll find a lot of personal photos, interviews, thoughs... I' ve reached to the moment when I basically consider her nude pics as gross, and I preffer to collect as much as "Aria' s normal life shoots" as I can. This surpassed the phisical attraction, and I could say that I have a little crush on her.

Why don't I do something about it? Well... because it should be stupid. She is in LA, probably with a relation, (like me!), I don' t know where she lives... People would call me nuts for flying oversees to meet a girl I' ve only seen in photos, and they would probably be right. If I do it and I finally approach her, there would be 99.9% that her reaction was more like the one Pamela Anderson had when she met Borat than a friendly one. The possiblity of a romantic reaction must be something like 0.0000001%.

But if I had a week to live I wouldn't mind of that. I am not one of those who likes to be surrounded be relatives when I am down (I feel I can manage almost all my problems alone, I don't want to pass my sorrow to the ones I love, I consider it shellfishy...) So, I would probably tell nothing about my inminent death, I would say goodbye to all in the best way I could (difficult to do, if you don't really want to say what's going on...) and I would travel to LA to make me dream come true... I wouldn' t care of the effects, anyway, I was going to die in a week...

bicilotti · Tue 17/02/2009 13:24:05

QuoteI just can't bare to think that by next week a man's life will end. End of the book.

Even though death scares me, I always thought that men who left the world even a little bit better than they found it are going to live forever in the actions, thoughts and minds of future generations.

Sorry to hear that about your grandpa.

HillBilly · Tue 17/02/2009 14:09:00

Quote from: Pumaman on Mon 16/02/2009 23:02:17I'd be grateful for getting a weeks warning rather than just being randomly hit by a bus, and would hit the bottle in style.

Yeah no kidding. I'd like to think I'd do all sorts of crazy, great stuff the last week of my life, but I'd probably just slide into a pathetic depression instead. With good reason.

voh · Tue 17/02/2009 16:24:21

I've actually thought this over a bit too well, as a slight error of judgement by a doctor when I was 8 branded into my mind that I wasn't going to live past 20. I'd had a very strong heart murmur and along with it some rather uncomfortable pains and problems and whatnot when I was a young voh. I spent a fair bit of time in the hospital getting tested, and for some reason the cardiologist found it necessary to discuss some of the more negative possibilities of the situation in front of the 8-year old.

My mom agrees that that may not have been the wisest choice. All in all, I ended up drinking myself stupid on my 21st birthday, believing that there was a realistic chance that I wouldn't wake up the day after. I'd spent that entire week hanging out with friends, reconnecting with old mates and with my family. Nothing morbid, just having a good old time and making sure the people I loved knew I appreciated them.

Should the situation ever repeat itself in that I feel that I know I've only got a short amount of time left, I'd to the exact same thing. Like everyone else in the world, I want to be remembered, and I want to be remembered in a positive way. I'd make sure that those who are important to me in that period know damn well I thought so.

Regardless, sorry to hear about your gramps, indie. Lost my gramps and grams in the span of a year, and they were my last grand-anythings. It sucks, but hey, they're old and it was bound to happen some day. Just make sure you think of them from time to time and that they live on in your mind and heart. It's all you can do, but it's pretty damn awesome. My gramps will always be with me (not just because I've got his awesome ukulele right here, which reminds me of him every single day

).

Support & remember.

Phemar · Tue 17/02/2009 20:13:34

You should watch the movie The Bucket List, Indieboy.

LUniqueDan · Wed 18/02/2009 22:14:01

QuoteWhat would you do if you had a week to live?

Save Aria Giovanni from Nacho's hands.

Nacho · Wed 18/02/2009 22:18:00

I would never do something bad to Ari

LGM · Wed 18/02/2009 22:30:16

I'd tell my best friend how I really feel about her. Beyond that, I'd do what anyone else would do... Make the best of it. I'd try to write out all of my important views on life for others to stumble upon, I'd give away my precious belongings to those who'd appreciate them, make amends with old enemies or faded friends, spend time with family, friends, whatever. Make peace with the world, and perhaps fix a crooked picture frame on my way out the door.

MrColossal · Thu 19/02/2009 00:03:02

I'd make a OROW

I'm surprised I'm the first one to say that!

But in actuality I have no idea. Quit my job of course. I love my job but it's not THAT important! Throw a party? I've never done that before, would people even come? Bah, too complicated! I guess I'll just cross that bridge when I come to it! I hope the bridge doesn't take a week to cross.

Oliwerko · Thu 19/02/2009 07:21:49

This thought of the last-week time spent with friends and family is nice on one hand, but on the other, isn't it just a bit weird to try to fix something you didn't all your life in the last few days? I mean, I try to live the way that if a bus would overrun me today, I would have almost nothing to regret. I try to keep that "tell my friends what they mean to me" obvious during my life, not just the end of it. I'm sure people know how I feel about them.

Not spending enough time with your loved ones all your life doesn't get fixed when you do that the very last week. I know that the point is to really, REALLY make them know what you feel, even if you did that before. But still, I would spend the last week of my life exactly like I lived before.

Just a thought.

Dualnames · Fri 20/02/2009 08:52:38

I'd do what I would normally do, it would depress me to know I need to do all the wild stuff in a week, because I've never lived my life..so if your grandpa acts like nothing is happening be glad for him.

WHAM · Fri 20/02/2009 09:06:19

1 week to live (assuming my condition allowed me to continue living "normally" for the week):

Day 1: Eat well and spend my money on all kinds of crazy stuff (have no kids, so no need to worry about their inheritance)
Day 2: Continue what I did yesterday
Day 3: Have all the sex I can, no need to worry about STD's.
Day 4: Travel abroad, see the world. I always wanted to visit Britain, Germany and the US.
Day 5: Return home, attempt to purchase a firearm legally / illegally if necessary.
Day 6: Hunt down all those bastards who picked on me in first and second grade. Senseless murder for childhood wrongdoings. Bastards...
Day 7: Suicide before I die. The last thing I will accept is lying in a hospital bed waiting for that last breath. If necessary, I would commit suicide earlier.

Andail · Fri 20/02/2009 11:08:17

I'm not sure I would hurry to see everything and try to sleep with countless of women. Sounds stressful. After a week of rushed sight-seeing - prolly lots of late flights and lost baggage, and a dozen anticlimaxes involving women that you either regret having met, or really want to see again, which you tragically enough can't, you'd probably rather have spent that time sitting in a nice garden, enjoying a cup of tea and reading a good book.

Dualnames · Fri 20/02/2009 11:32:59

Quote from: Andail on Fri 20/02/2009 11:08:17
I'm not sure I would hurry to see everything and try to sleep with countless of women. Sounds stressful. After a week of rushed sight-seeing - prolly lots of late flights and lost baggage, and a dozen anticlimaxes involving women that you either regret having met, or really want to see again, which you tragically enough can't, you'd probably rather have spent that time sitting in a nice garden, enjoying a cup of tea and reading a good book.

Exactly my point, man. I'd add the title of the book as well.

Oliwerko · Fri 20/02/2009 11:37:18

I agree with that. I wouldn't do anything I wouldn't do if it wasn't my last week.
You can't change your life with the last week.

The magic, the enjoyment of your life lies in what you do your average days, not in a super-adventureous turbo week.

Stupot · Fri 20/02/2009 13:53:30

You wouldn't be able to avoid the fact that it was your last week... you might try to act like nothings different, but your family certainly wouldn't be. That's why I like to think I'd spend the week trying to make things less difficult for them.

Sitting round pretending like it's any other week would be cruel to all the people who are crying and praying for you.

Oliwerko · Fri 20/02/2009 15:30:17

Well, maybe.
But I don't know what I would do even if I wanted to make it easier for them. Wouldn't be that even harder for them to know that it's my last week?
But I have to admit that it would be hell of a difficult to remain sane and pretend nothing's happening.

Maybe I would just tell people things I normally wouldn't because of fear of upsetting them/rejection/not being nice to them/etc.
Something like InC wrote about that finding that you should have risked in your life more than you did.

What would you do if you had a week to live?

bicilotti