i have always wondered how i will live my remaining days on earth, if i know how long i have. do i wallow in self pity or do i enjoy and cherish the people i love and things that i love to do as well.
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Hmm...well, I don't think I would tell my loved ones right away. I'd wait until sometime during my last month. I would not want them to pity me, or to constantly think about my pending death. I would also get everything in order...start giving away my possession to the people I want to have them. Donate everything else to Goodwill. I'd also start making plans for my funeral. For the first week, I'd probably be in pity, but after that, I'd realize (or at least I hope I would), that it was a gift...that I am now able to see to it that my hubby and family are not placed with unnecessary burdens, as the families of people who go suddenly often are. \nI would write letters to my loved loves, telling them everything I never could in person, because I find it hard to express my feelings. I'd appologize to everyone I have ever wronged in life...(I should probably still do this anyways). I'd also talk to my father, and tell him I forgive him for all that he has done, although he has never asked for it. For my nephew, I would make a tape of myself, telling him all of the lessons I have learned in life, and remind him how much of joy it had been to have him in my life...even if he was a little baby. \nThen, I'd spend as much time as I could with my hubby...learning and discovering more about him, holding and watching him every night while he slept, and tell him everyday how much I love and appreciate him. \nNow, assuming I ever win the lottery or come across a whole lot money, these are some more things I would do:\n1. Go skydiving\n2. Go Bungee Jumping\n(I've always been too scared of doing these, but since I'm going to die anyways...might as well).\n3. Be in a shark cage with a Great White swimming around. \n4. Go to Rome, London, Paris, and New Zealand (with my hubby, spending five days in each place.)\n5. Take an African Safari (again with my hubby).\n6. Go white water rafting. \n7. DIE HAPPY AND CONTENT...
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To live happy until I die. I will acheive that by being me and taking ONE day at a time.
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Abso-posi-lu-tively life into years!\nIf I could have left this world 8 years ago, I would have been satisfied at the time of my death.\nNow I am getting older and I have not been able to experience the "live and let live happily" side due to legal vs. moral argument.\nI am under authorative thumb now from standing for my beliefs and not allowed to live freely. It has added years to my life, but would gladly trade the years for life.\n\nHopefully, the Lord has a plan in my coming years to bring back the life. Atleast I will have eternal life and that, my friend, makes it worth living.
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I want to be remered for the good I did. I know I probaly won't and I could care less. People wouldn't nessaccerly care. I still want to do some good for the world. If I'm remembered wonderful if not so what I could care less I'll be dead. I just want my actions to be contiued if I do something good which I hope I do.
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If you live to be 100, I want to live to be 100 minus one day, so I never have to live without you...\n\nAhhh... I'm in Love!
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This is a realy good question, you must be so smart to have thought of it... Question like this will make me get through the day... You have a every good day and i wish you all the happiness... Whats the truth in this answer...
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I am happy with the person I am, I'm just not happy with where my life is at this point in time. It will be better once I get my feet back under me and can stand on my own again. I have never pretended to be something I'm not. If they don't like me for who and what I am they can move on. I have no room for people like that in my life.
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Its sad yeah,but would you really want to live forever? Its the fact that life comes to an end that makes our lives so much more beautiful while we live :p
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I like this.  I really, really like this.\n\nAbout the immortality part...I feel we are immortal as long as some part of us, even an influence on another person, goes on.  So, not just genetically, as in having children.  But if I've touched someone's life, then I live on through them.  And if because I touched their life, they shared something about me with someone else in their life, then I live on through that person as well.  And so on, and so on.  So in this way, we are all immortal.
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Everlasting life? Isn't that what we are promised by God? It's sort of the same as asking "Do you or Would you believe" \nI believe I would. There are certain people who absolutely LOVE life. Everything about it, even the pain and suffering that comes with it. There is beauty in everything. I am one of those people. I LOVE to learn. I learn everything I can all the time. I will always learn and grow and never tire of life or what it has to offer. I would welcome the opportunity to live forever. \nDeath is part of the plan, a process in the journey of our souls. Just like birth, adolescence or graying hair. It may be the end, or the beginning depending on how you see it. But it is inevitable either way.
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i think of myself as quite in control of my emotions.  from the outside, you might even label me aloof.  inside, i let my feelings guide me enough to where i trust them, and don't let my emotions run away with me.  happiness and joy rule me much more than anger... this is by my choice.\n\nsometimes you DO have to face what life throws at you... and feeling sad, or upset is all part of the natural reaction.  when something bad happens, i try to find the silver lining, and share it with others.  in that sense, i try to remain in control of my emotions.  when something wonderful occurs, i tend to let it 'all hang out'.  would you consider that as "my emotions having control of me"?  or just the expression of them and (again) the sharing with others?    \n\ni prefer to think of it as being in charge of what i allow to show of myself.  sad becomes happy.  happy STAYS happy.  who said being an optimist was supposed to be easy? :)
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As I don't believe anything more than the worms is waiting for us, I'd be happy to postpone 'that dreadful day' as long as possible. Even if it meant repeatedly seeing my loved ones die... But not if I was condemned to live forever in pain (this question often seems to presume that you wouldn't). So actually, I'd like to 'live forever' in the sense that nothing or nobody else could kill me, but I'd like to be able to reserve the right myself to kill myself.
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Hi ..I like to thank you, for that compliment..on my question!.. \nSo ..thanks!!:) ..\n\nI think : that I would like to die,the way that people remember me..\nthe age does not really matter..as long  as you can..go in a civilized  ..way! ...and left the people..you treasure,a positive. image..of, " Me "..so they  have it easier..to cope with..later on,in their lives!! ........\nkind regards!!:))
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Hey yep.\nI am allways Happy wether I loose the most Important thing of my life.\nI kep going on and on till i drop down dead on this planet.\nLife is to enjoy and be happy, take things the way they come to u, and manage the resorces available to u in an effectiv manner so that u can make best out of it..........\nNever be down or sad because it fetches u nothing but more misery and pain..........\nvikram_s_bhatt@yahoo.co.in
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Live is what I would do before I died
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I am ecstatic with my own individuality, especially my willingness to notice my own eccentricites.  The older I get the more ornery I get about some things, but the more conservative (I know, my ears bleed just thinking about it) I get about other things.  There are choices I have made in my life that I think I could have given more thought too, but I am happy with the sum total of who I am.  Since I believe we ARE the sum total of all of our thoughts, actions, and experiences, I guess you could say I'm damn happy being the bastard black sheep of the universe.
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Ask yourself: What am I looking for? What do I want to do? What will make me happy? What has made me happy in the past? What do I enjoy? I don't believe we are here for any particular purpose, other then to live and help others and to enjoy life, fill your lungs with fresh clean air and get out into the sunlight, and see, I mean really see, the (good) things life has to offer you! Look at a tree, see what it has to offer the world, watch ripples move on a pond, see the love ducks have for each other as they group together in the water, look at the sky, see the beautiful colors of the sunset, fall face down in the grass and see, smell and feel the grass, look at an ant colony, feel the different texture of colored leaves, taste a raindrop! This is what life has to offer, pretend you only have 3 days left to live and try to savor all there is to savor, this is your world dammit, and you don't want to leave it!!!!!!