Death

[smegballs]

How do you see the act of dying? To take pain etc out of the equation suppose you have a "disease". The disease will kill you painlessly once year from starting - just drop down dead with no indication etc....
The harmless symptom of the disease is blindingly obvious so you know exactly when you final year starts.

How would you react to your final year alive? Would you feel liberation and freedom, perhaps depression and fear?

Personally I think I would find it profoundly liberating to know I would die in a short timespan. Long and middle term problems would cease to exist and I would be free to live my life on a purely "now" basis. Fear of personal harm would diminish too as long term function isn't needed. I would hope to end my year totally destroyed and burnt out. You truly could "live" for a year.

I take the approach that a race engine should blow apart as it crosses the line.... If you are going to die at a preset time then there is no need to aim to live healthily beyond that timeframe, if it means that living healthily reduces the ability to embrace all the experiences that are offered.

[lostboy]

Personally I want to go out the way I came in but in a different position with a different woman.

And my general attitude to life is - you get one life so enjoy it from start to finish and better to die of summat you did than at someone elses hands.
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[5v3d3b0]

The thing is, if you live your life like that for the last year, you're likely to be having a bloody good time, and when you've got a few days left you'll be desperate to enjoy evey second. When you've got a matter of hours left you'd realize how much you wanna keep living your perfect 1 year life and knowing that in eg. 34 minutes you'll drop dead I think would be a pretty bad feeling...

[unitybiker]

i think pessimists live a bit longer and serves them right .near the end only have regrets what you've done ,not what you hav'nt .

[the grim reaper]

You would most likely experience a range of emotions, from deep despair one day to euphoria the next. It would be one hell of a ride, assuming that the disease wasn't dehabilitatory. I think what was said above about the panic in the last few days/hours would be true though.

Cheers

Grim
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[smegballs]

I discussed this with firends earlier and we came to the conclusion that its a bit of a life flipper.

Assuming he/she has the balls, thw lonely worker who has a life of boredom and monotony is now free. They can take all those drugs/ party really hard/ get a dream car/bike.... and enjoy a year of having their life totally changed around.

Rich people who already have "everything" benefit less as when finances are not an issue, the time limit would see them losing their families, lives they love etc etc. Obviously going on the basis that money is sadly the limiting factor in most peoples lives, not to say the rich people couldn't enjoy it of course.

[Stelmer]

[thegubner]

I would spend the entire year putting on a false pretence of enjoying it while panicking to the point of poo about my missus and daughter.

Very vain to imagine their lives would be made worse by me being taken from them but thats me.

I cant provide a lot but i do provide and the thought of not being able to do that would probably drive me to death before the year was up.

Then there would be the thoughts of her eventually getting another fella and my daughter looking to someone else as a provider/role model. It would drive me mad.

Although to be honest they would probably be better off.

Overall a horrible situation to comprehend.

[pa_broon74]

Work like crazy and save everything up till the final twenty four hours, then go wild.

Obviously check it isn't a leap year first though.


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[Clanger]

I know for a fact, I'd write out that list of 'must do/see' and go and do it all. Leaving the things the doctor said I shouldn't do till the end...so if I did hurt myself badly, it wouldn't matter...because the end was nigh.

I would quite possibly go through my stuff and donate bits and bobs to various family members and close friends, and then boot it around the charities I believe in, and get rid of the rest.

But I couldn't possibly decide how I'd 'feel' because I know I go through all sorts of different emotions about different events as it is, I can never really know how I'll be. I still even surprise myself at my reactions!!
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