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goobler
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If you knew.................
#4473168 - 07/30/05 09:07 AM (18 years, 7 months ago) |
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you were going to die...within the next few years
what would you tell your friends and family.?
or would you?
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Krishna
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Re: If you knew................. [Re: goobler]
#4473173 - 07/30/05 09:10 AM (18 years, 7 months ago) |
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yeah i'd tell them the truth.
i don't think i'd be able to hide something like that from people whom i loved.
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Re: If you knew................. [Re: goobler]
#4473175 - 07/30/05 09:12 AM (18 years, 7 months ago) |
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i don't know if I'd tell them. I sure would be sad though. If I was going to tell them I guess all I could say is even after I'm gone I'll still love them and that I hope to see them again in some way, shape, or form. That would be very very hard for me though.
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goobler
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Re: If you knew................. [Re: Krishna]
#4473176 - 07/30/05 09:13 AM (18 years, 7 months ago) |
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I don't know if I could tell...
it would change everything
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Re: If you knew................. [Re: goobler]
#4473177 - 07/30/05 09:14 AM (18 years, 7 months ago) |
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but you think you'd be able to hide it without them noticing something was up?
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Re: If you knew................. [Re: goobler]
#4473180 - 07/30/05 09:17 AM (18 years, 7 months ago) |
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I think you'd have to tell them. Better for them to prepare and be at least kind of ready for it than to be totally suprised by it. It would be very selfish to not tell them I think.
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goobler
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Re: If you knew................. [Re: Krishna]
#4473181 - 07/30/05 09:19 AM (18 years, 7 months ago) |
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depends on what it is...I think you could for a long time..maybe not until the very end but close.
its a depressing thought to think you could close your eyes and 'click' its over
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Re: If you knew................. [Re: Deadmaker]
#4473184 - 07/30/05 09:21 AM (18 years, 7 months ago) |
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Deadmaker said: I think you'd have to tell them. Better for them to prepare and be at least kind of ready for it than to be totally suprised by it. It would be very selfish to not tell them I think.
selfish?
I guess a little but what about the worry, the drama, the 'poor soandso'
I mean uless you mean prepared to live(economically) without the person
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Re: If you knew................. [Re: goobler]
#4473185 - 07/30/05 09:23 AM (18 years, 7 months ago) |
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It'd be a pretty tightly knit smallll group of people I'd tell..very few indeed. And I'd probably tell them all at different times too, stagger it out a bit.
But yeah in the end I'd want to have some crazy times with the people I loved the most before I did die...
-------------------- Acid doesn't give you truths; it builds machines that push the envelope of perception. Whatever revelations came to me then have dissolved like skywriting. All I really know is that those few years saddled me with a faith in the redemptive potential of the imagination which, however flat, stale and unprofitable the world seems to me now, I cannot for the life of me shake. -Erik Davis
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Re: If you knew................. [Re: goobler]
#4473195 - 07/30/05 09:26 AM (18 years, 7 months ago) |
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while i really fear death in all the normal senses, i also kinda look forward to it, to see what will happen. i don't mean i'm suicidal or anything, i love life now and hope to experience much much more as it continues onwards. just that, for example, everytime i'm in an airplane that is about to land, i'm not worried that we'll crash and burn. if it happens, well fuck it - and now i get to see what this death thing is all about!
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Re: If you knew................. [Re: goobler]
#4473198 - 07/30/05 09:27 AM (18 years, 7 months ago) |
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tell them they can get ready emotionally or whatever. Ive had 2 deaths in my family one slow(cancer) and one sudden accident. guess which one was worst. it took like one year for it just to sink in.
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Re: If you knew................. [Re: goobler]
#4473206 - 07/30/05 09:33 AM (18 years, 7 months ago) |
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goobler said:
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Deadmaker said: I think you'd have to tell them. Better for them to prepare and be at least kind of ready for it than to be totally suprised by it. It would be very selfish to not tell them I think.
selfish?
I guess a little but what about the worry, the drama, the 'poor soandso'
I mean uless you mean prepared to live(economically) without the person
It would be easier emotionally for them if they knew in advance. It would still be hard, but not as hard. And think of how they would feel when you did die or were really close to dying, and they found out that you knew you were dying and didn't tell them. Dont you think that would hurt them even more?
Sure it would be a hell of alot harder to tell them about it, but like most things in life the hard way is usally the right way.
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Re: If you knew................. [Re: goobler]
#4473280 - 07/30/05 10:37 AM (18 years, 7 months ago) |
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i would tell them, and then go on the biggest drug binge ever.....shit, i only got a few years? im gonna be high as a mother fucker for 80% of that time i got left.
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Re: If you knew................. [Re: goobler]
#4473289 - 07/30/05 10:44 AM (18 years, 7 months ago) |
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Id go 8 minutes on a bull named full manchu.
Then tell my closest friends that im passing on.
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""""""""""""" while i really fear death in all the normal senses, i also kinda look forward to it, to see what will happen. i don't mean i'm suicidal or anything, i love life now and hope to experience much much more as it continues onwards. just that, for example, everytime i'm in an airplane that is about to land, i'm not worried that we'll crash and burn. if it happens, well fuck it - and now i get to see what this death thing is all about! """""""
Havent some theorized that psychedelic drug induced ego loss is basically what happens when one dies? At least thats what I gathered from this book I saw in Barnes and Noble, it was called the Psychedelic Experience or something like that, and it said alot about the Tibetan book of the Dead.
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Re: If you knew................. [Re: gmand38]
#4473354 - 07/30/05 11:22 AM (18 years, 7 months ago) |
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yep, it's an 'interpretation' of the tibetan book of the dead by tim leary, richard alpert, and a couple other of those harvard guys.
interesting book - although really 'skims' through a lot of the tibetan philosophy (as a lot of western 'interpretations' of eastern thought tend to...)
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Re: If you knew................. [Re: goobler]
#4473382 - 07/30/05 11:31 AM (18 years, 7 months ago) |
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I would, for the reasons Krishna gave.....
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Re: If you knew................. [Re: goobler]
#4473447 - 07/30/05 12:03 PM (18 years, 7 months ago) |
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Quote:
goobler said: you were going to die...within the next few years
what would you tell your friends and family.?
or would you?
I would gather everybody around my inversion table and break the news. They could then hop onto the inversion table to relieve the accompanying stress of the whole situation.
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