OK. The doctor tells you you have 2-3 months to live at best.

[Taverner]

What do you do?

Me? After saying goodbye I start a heroin habit that continues until I'm in the grave. I've never had heroin, but I've had other opiates, and if its half as good as the other opiates, then I know I'll like it.

[LaraMN]

1. Oh I am smoking my GUTS out!

:bounce:

[Taverner]

3. Oh that too

I'll be smoking Camels like there is no tomorrow

Oh, and drinking like a fish - but not too much. Last thing I would want to is waste one of my few mornings on a hangover.

[LaraMN]

4. Marb Reds!

And cheesecake and no more ab exercises.

And lots of time with my kids doing silly(er than normal) things.

[Taverner]

12. Marbs were good too

Thing about Camels is I liked the flavor more, but always had bronchitis when I smoked them. There was some chemical in those that made me sick, that wasn't in any other cigarette.

I never really enjoyed smoking American Spirit - I just smoked them at the end because they were the "healthiest" (think organic cyanide)

[bif]

2. Spend all my money on expensive wine

And remain in a stupor until I'm taken up to the Great Vineyard in the sky!

[harmonicon]

5. heroin is a good idea

I'd get back together with a certain woman, drink loads of insanely expensive beer, smoke really really expensive cigarettes, travel all over and go out with a huge bang.

In reality though, I probably wouldn't believe the doctors and try to fight whatever was going to kill me.

[CaliforniaPeggy]

6. My dear Taverner...

What would I do?

There are some folks I want to visit, and I'd get going doing that...

Play with my grandchildren...

Write some more poems...

Maybe self-publish, so my work would live on after me...

Do some more recordings, so my family and friends would have those images to return to when they missed me...

Lots of sex!

[Taverner]

9. Sex is good. Leaving memories are good.

Leave it to you to think about others, when all I thought of was my miserable self :P

[CaliforniaPeggy]

11. No worries!

I am a lot older, and I've thought about this stuff before!

:hug:

[timtom]

7. Get me a bushel of the finest mushrooms available

(and a bushel of mota, too.)

[flvegan]

8. First, I'd get a second opinion.

[Taverner]

10. Well yeah

I don't want to die if I don't have to

And if I'm not going to die I don't want to think that I am...

[Ikonoklast]

15. OK, you're ugly, too.

:hide: :rofl:

[flvegan]

16. Thank you, Don Rickles.

:rofl:

[sarge43]

13. I'd whoop it up, but I know what would happen

I'd blow through the savings, bake myself to a fine golden brown or worse, drink the good stuff, etc. Then, two weeks before check out, they'd come up with the miracle cure.

[Taverner]

14. Hey any day above ground is better than one below

At least that's my opinion

[Mike 03]

17. My ex-gf was apparently given four to six months, and she did a bit better than that.

I'm sure she had good pain management. Knowing her, if her Docs didn't give it to her, she could get it some other way.

In all seriousness, the two people I've known who have had terminal cancer who needed pain management had good pain management, even morphine pumps.

[leeroysphitz]

18. Cigarettes, beer, steak, hookers, speeding tickets, absenteeism from work...

I might even try crack. Why not?

[Starbucks Anarchist]

19. Commit a LOT of crimes.

:evilgrin:

[pitohui]

20. i can't remember the lady's name but she decided to see all the birds of the world

she was given 6 months to live and being very wealthy decided to travel about the world and just get as big a bird list as possible

as sometimes happens when a person has purpose, she actually lived 17 more years and died not of the cancer but in a car accident in madagascar while chasing a bird

at the time of her death she had around 8,500 species on her life list (out of around 10,000) and they estimate that she saw an average of one new species a day since the time of her cancer diagnosis

it's a hell of a story

the way i travel (cheap cheap cheap) i could easily afford to spend my last 3 months traveling and looking for birds, rather than indulging in useless "treatments" that would just make me tired and that's probably what i would do

i would not get involved w. drugs (unless they were needed for the pain) because any kind of scheduled narcotic/painkiller GREATLY complicates your ability to travel -- your heroin idea is interesting but stop and think, what would you be giving up by devoting those last 3 months to heroin?

[jeff30997]

21. Heroin.

Why suffer when I can fly until the game's over ?

[liberaltrucker]

22. Copious amounts of powder cocaine

Tried it once and liked it so much I never touched it again, for obvious reasons!



:thumbsup:

[Taverner]

24. I loved loved loved coke

But - from the opiates I had, there was that 'connection to the void' that just isn't there in any other drug

[liberaltrucker]

25. True that

I used to have severe migraines before modern treatments. My docs treatment
of choice was Percodan. Oxycodone and aspirin. OxyContin is a sustained-release
version of oxycodone, aka hillbilly heroin.

[Taverner]

27. Yep - and Laudanum (my fave) is similar

Hydrocodone is similar too. One has the initial rush (OXY) and the other has the prolonged effect (HYDRO)

It's all just toying with the various painkilling drugs in Opium (there are many)

But at one point, I felt with my back pain "Shit, why not go to what the original painkillers did, and make Laudanum!"

Strangely, its easy to make. And I did. And - OMG - heaven. True heaven.

Nestled in your mother's arms wrapped up in a blanket heaven.

And the hangover from that was harrowing.

But the high - I can see the allure

[Tangerine LaBamba]

36. So true.......

I've got what seems to be an unending (and legal) supply of oxycodone here, and, really, it works for pain, but, man, it is a lovely drug.

I'm with you - I'd jump right on the smack bandwagon. Plus, I'd get as many credit cards as I could carry and I would run those suckers up to their limits buying stuff for family and friends.

Then I'd die with my finger extended to the credit card companies.

See, I wouldn't want my death to be meaningless.......................

[Taverner]

39. The Purpose Driven Life!

[Roon]

23. I quit smoking three years ago

but when I am on my death bed, I am going to be a smoking fool.

[Taverner]

26. What I miss most about smoking...

Was that, at any point in my life, whether it was a boring meeting, or that I just rolled my car...smoking always gave me that lift from however I felt...

[PfcHammer]

28. Hoes, blow, and a truckload of junk food

:P

[Lucian]

29. Lots and lots of sex.

[skygazer]

30. With my luck, I'd do that, get miraculously cured, and end up with a big ol' monkey on my back

Again. Rode that pony once - getting off it's a bitch.


So it would depend on the death I was facing. If I wasn't going to be bed-bound and in pain, I'd collect all the money I could and travel until I croaked. If I was in pain and bedbound - fuck. I guess it's back to the opiates.

But I'm gonna be pissed if I live. :silly:

[leftyclimber]

31. Go to Baffin Island

Climb about 3/4 of a mile up

Shoot a big needle full of heroin (never tried it, but I hear the first time is the best, so might as well go on that kind of high)

Unclip the anchor

Go for the long ride

(Natural burial, too -- the polar bears will then get to eat the bits of my corpse).

I believe that in circumstances like that we deserve to choose the time and place of our death.

[Danger Mouse]

32. Spend the remainder of my life in a horrible depression only ended by the sweet embrace of death.

[WinkyDink]

33. Blow all my money on a European jaunt.

[Forkboy]

34. Before I die I want to drive a bus through a wall of flaming tv's.

So I'd set about arranging that toot sweet. :)

[rcrush]

35. I'm gonna get real fat.

And move to a country where weed is legal. And probably do a lot of what I do right now.

[quakerboy]

37. look up all pertaining laws on how my potential behavior

would legally effect my wife.

[YankeyMCC]

38. Head for the woods

after saying goodbye to the people I love I'd pack up and just start walking, maybe alonng the Appalachian Trail just depends on where and when I would get the news and the closest bit of wilderness.

And believe me my trail food would include plenty of chocolate and fat :)

[Dystopian]

41. That sounds like a nice way to live...

Just pick up and go on an adventure with Mother Nature...and let her embrace you....

I'd be too depressed to do anything.....


peace~

[BarenakedLady]

40. Tough question

I'd gather my kids and loved one and hunker down, I imagine.

[Spider Jerusalem]

42. Smack, definitely.

And chainsmoking Botschafter cigarettes. And a last blowout 2 weeks holiday in Amsterdam while I'm at it.

[Shell Beau]

43. I would see the world. If I have to rob a bank to do it, then so what.

I wouldn't live it all dazed out though. Maybe some pot, but that would be as far as I would go. I would definitely make it to Italy and pig out.

[ismnotwasm]

44. Don't shoot it

We're seeing amyloid kidney failure again, A type of protein build up that happens now and again with heroin addicts, it's also an autoimmune cause of kidney and heart failure--We don't know the connection. Probably something they cut it with. And of course well as the ever present drug resistant abscesses. How 'bout hash, opium and an awesome hookah?

Heroin addicts have a hard time controlling pain, and I'm the type of nurse who will work real hard with you to get you out of pain.

[Fire Walk With Me]

45. I'd grab him by the collar and tell him to break out the damn sonic screwdriver and MAKE a cure.