[pegasus]

(Hypothetical question) Imagine you are told you have one day left to live, what would you do in 24 hours if you knew you were going to die?

Number one would be to throw away my watch and all the clocks in the house
Call a few people... hug a few people... make sure I had someone to look after my cats... eat some chocolate.... throw caution to the wind and go out in the sunshine in shorts and w/o a shirt on... watch the moon shine through the clouds one more time. Feed the cats and go to bed... no wait... I'd want to spend the last of my time outdoors
That's about it
What about you?

[lizardlady]

I tell them already, but I'd call the people important to me and tell them one more time that I love them.

Like George, I'd make arrangements for someone to take care of my fur babies.

I'd spend as much time as possible outside and with my furbabies. Those are somewhat contridictory since the cats aren't allowed to go outside.

[Clinte89]

I would defiantly get with all my friends and family one last time throw a bi goin away party, go out for a boat ride do a little fishing eat whatever I wanted that day, I would make sure they didn't bury me in a suit I would request board shorts and a t shirt, I could have a few glasses of the finest liqour you could buy just I say I've done it, I wouldn't sleep I would stay up 24 hours doing the things I love to do or have never done being sure to spend my last few hours with friends and family around me having a good time. Basically I would spend time with the ones I love and have the most fun I could possibly have.

Id spend it with my fiance mostly - id take a long walk with them in the morning, i love nature so id take in all our favourite sites then id come back, have a late breakfast then spend the rest of day curled up in bed together. Later on i would visit friends and family and say goodbye then in the evening i would sit with my partner in front of a roaring fire with my head on their lap while they read my favourite book/poems. As long as i fall asleep with them there i don't care for much else - i don't see the use in going out with a bang, im not a party-goer but id make a point of being with at least one person i adore...i couldn't go out of the world alone.

[FeelingFine209]

Not to be a spoiler, but a question like this is difficult to answer because the implausibility. How you answer now may be very different than how you would answer if you were in that position.

[-jimi-]

I'd run around and scream.

[CastlesInTheAir]

hmmm only 24 hours to live......

A. I would go top out my car finally on I-83 during light traffic of course, who cares about the speeding ticket?

B. Post it on facebook and see how many people "like" my status.

C. hug all my friends

D. Tell "them" how I really feel

E. Give my car to a close friend who needs it

F. give away all my other crap to people who could use it

G. buy a lottery ticket, give it to homeless man,because then I would actually win

H. hang with the family

I. make sure my funeral is a party and all family attends and reunites

J. Apoligize for not being the best daughter

K. act goofy everywhere i go and not care what people think

L. Find out i am not really dieing, get accused for lieing about it for attention, lotto ticket wins, lucky homeless person is no longer homeless, no one gives me my stuff back...go figure....

[kyouma]

i'd feel i'd need to spend it with family, my parents, i know i'm such a failure for them, but honestly i know i wouldn't do that if i could spend it with my girlfriend... who i can't talk to right now...
perhaps i'd go nuts and end up dying before that 24 hours time

[MuseumGhost]

I'd videotape messages for the very much loved people I'd be leaving behind.

I'd lay out my clothes for the next day, and make sure my hair looks nice and my nails are done.

Then, I'd go buy the most expensive and the best champagne and food I could find, and enjoy them deeply and without guilt.

OR....

I'd call some of my husband's less inhibited friends, and hook myself up with the best illegal stuff I could find-----and have a great, carefree party!!!!! :P

With only one day, there's not much time to plan.

[beauflow]

hmm.. one day left... Am I aware of this one day?

Well if my S/O was going to continue on, he would take care of our kitty, so that worry is taken care of. I would spend the day with him, go up to the mountains would be highly probable...

Think I would also send off some of my art to my sisters and brother that I still have a place in my heart for ... write them each a small letter too...
Some old buds i would send some paintings too as well.. I already know who they would be...

Think I would gather all my clothes and donate them and probably some of my art stuff too that my S/O would not want so he would not to deal with it while I was gone (I know he is a procrastinator so I better do this for him, it would be the least that I could do for him).. Also ask him if anything else he needed help with deciding on. This would be hard on him -- that is always something that I remind myself...

I think I would paint one last picture and give it to my S/O...

Ask his sister and mom to please check on him at some point...

I don't think I would do much besides just be with him.... it really wouldn't matter what we did to be honest...


I have a small world...

I would just want to spend my last day with the man that has helped me so much even if I am not all better right now..

this is actually making me teary eyed-- sorry i took it so seriously

of course have some fun too

First stop - McDonalds, for a big Mac and supersize fries ... with tons of ketchup.

Next stop - An ice cream store, any, for a banana split with whipped cream topped by a cherry.

Then off to the local winery to smoke and drink the night away.

But before I did any of that, I'd pick up my bathroom scale and throw it out the window!

[MuseumGhost]

Considering this made me a little misty eyed, too, Beau.

[Inedible]

At this point I don't think I would change anything. I'd go about my normal routine and write a couple letters in case I did die.

i would call the people who play an important role in my life and let them know how lucky i feel to know them and how amazing they are. i would burn my diaries and some other things : )) if i could i would get in my car and drive somewhere that reminds me of good times. the mountains or some place by the lake. watch the sun go down

[lizardlady]

Pegs, thanks for posing this question. Reading people's responses is interesting.

Beauflow, what a beautiful response! Your SO sounds like a great person.

Something that came to me after I responded and I am going to offer as a challenge to everyone else.... Are you living your life the way you said you would spend your last day? If not, what is preventing you from doing so? It's a trite old thought, but in reality this could be the last day of your life. What are you doing to live life as if it were your last day?

[Puffyprue]

i still have 767 days left lol

but if i have one day left i would spend it at hospital hang out will all those patient there and when my time comes iam at hospital so they can get my organ fresh and give it to the one that needed.

I would kill my abuser what would happen to me? Give me life?

I would then spend the rest of the day with my family and call the people I love.

[beauflow]

((Tink))

Puffy- I totally forgot about that, and thankfully my S/O and I agree with donating our organs so he knows my wishes with that, I know we are not married, that is one thing I try to remind myself-- With my family I should do a will even though I am only 25, He should have the say over any "blood relatives" he knows me best...

Lizard Lady you make a good point- most indefinably this could be our last day on earth...
And I was wondering the same thing.. as I typed to ask his mom and sister to check in with him/S/O, i was remembered of my issues with them... I hope with a little more time I can get over my issues with them but I don't know they run deep for me.. what stops me is pain..... dysfunction as well for my family..

with recent news the other day, I told my S/O I am going to start to send off my paintings to my siblings... My brother may not be totally stable right now but I want to give him one none the less... if he loses it like so many other things i gave him in the past, it is ok...

I need to get a new job so my S/O and I are on the same shift then my wish for spending more time would be full filled

many hugs to all --- rough Question but a Good One Pegs

[BLUEDOVE]

I'd tell my grown up children they made a
terrible mistake by disowning me,and let
themselves be controlled by their narcissistic mother.I'd tell them I could
have carried them upon my wings,and
gave them the self-esteem they don't get
from mama---that I would have loved them
more than any other.That mama is incapable of love and self-absorbed . . . .
but Christ,what's the point? They are so
adoring of whom they THINK is mama,as
opposed to who she really is!

[Nicks_Nose]

I would most likely do the practical things like review my will, call my brother, email a long lost friend to thank her for the years we had and then donate all of my clothes to charity and burn bills.

[LostMom3]

I would worry about nothing. I would spend my time with my boys, nothing out of the ordinary there. I would try to see my 2 granddaughters. But if that failed as usual, I would write them letters for their father to give to them when they get old enough to understand. I would just want to spend the whole day with the ones that I love that I know love me. I see them everyday.