Topic: if you were to die...
pkh's photo
Thu 05/01/14 06:17 AM
If you were going to die tomorrow, what would you do today?

Dodo_David's photo
Thu 05/01/14 06:18 AM

If you were going to die tomorrow, what would you do today?


Cash in my IRA and pay for my own funeral.

no photo
Thu 05/01/14 06:23 AM
Find a place to sit, look at the mountains. Think about the loved ones that have gone before. Be at peace.

teebee79's photo
Thu 05/01/14 10:26 AM
Get my family and friends together and party to the end!
:banana: :banana:

no photo
Thu 05/01/14 10:29 AM
Up my life insurance, love on my kiddos!

no photo
Thu 05/01/14 10:32 AM
Pretend that I didn't know what was going to happen tomorrow :smile:

no photo
Thu 05/01/14 10:33 AM

Get my family and friends together and party to the end!
:banana: :banana:


Ooo, I like this one!!...Surround myself with family and friends and begin telling them all the good things I thought about saying and never did...drinker

soufiehere's photo
Thu 05/01/14 12:07 PM
I would take a long bath.
Put on careful makeup (so those theatrical
embalmers can't screw it up.)
I would dress in a clown outfit.
I would stick an air freshener up my azz.
Then call the coroner.
And ask for a discount.

Cutiepieforyou's photo
Thu 05/01/14 12:09 PM

I would take a long bath.
Put on careful makeup (so those theatrical
embalmers can't screw it up.)
I would dress in a clown outfit.
I would stick an air freshener up my azz.
Then call the coroner.
And ask for a discount.


laugh

willing2's photo
Thu 05/01/14 12:26 PM
I wouldn't tell anyone.

I'd go hide out in the desert and play hide-seek.

panchovanilla's photo
Thu 05/01/14 12:37 PM
Dig a hole.

no photo
Thu 05/01/14 12:39 PM
I'd go and visit my Mom one last time and not tell her. Her Pseudo Bulbar Affect would go absolutley wonky if I told her. Say goodbye to the rest of my family and friends, then go skydiving without the parachute into a volcano.

I'm such a cheapo, when it comes to my creamation....lol

matuu84's photo
Thu 05/01/14 12:54 PM
Apologise to everyone i had wronged....transfer my savings to my sons account and paaaarty....happy

TBRich's photo
Thu 05/01/14 12:58 PM
1. The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock
T.S. Eliot
S’io credesse che mia risposta fosse
A persona che mai tornasse al mondo,
Questa fiamma staria senza piu scosse.
Ma perciocche giammai di questo fondo
Non torno vivo alcun, s’i’odo il vero,
Senza tema d’infamia ti rispondo.

LET us go then, you and I,
When the evening is spread out against the sky
Like a patient etherized upon a table;
Let us go, through certain half-deserted streets,
The muttering retreats 5
Of restless nights in one-night cheap hotels
And sawdust restaurants with oyster-shells:
Streets that follow like a tedious argument
Of insidious intent
To lead you to an overwhelming question…. 10
Oh, do not ask, “What is it?”
Let us go and make our visit.

In the room the women come and go
Talking of Michelangelo.

The yellow fog that rubs its back upon the window-panes, 15
The yellow smoke that rubs its muzzle on the window-panes
Licked its tongue into the corners of the evening,
Lingered upon the pools that stand in drains,
Let fall upon its back the soot that falls from chimneys,
Slipped by the terrace, made a sudden leap, 20
And seeing that it was a soft October night,
Curled once about the house, and fell asleep.

And indeed there will be time
For the yellow smoke that slides along the street,
Rubbing its back upon the window panes; 25
There will be time, there will be time
To prepare a face to meet the faces that you meet;
There will be time to murder and create,
And time for all the works and days of hands
That lift and drop a question on your plate; 30
Time for you and time for me,
And time yet for a hundred indecisions,
And for a hundred visions and revisions,
Before the taking of a toast and tea.

In the room the women come and go 35
Talking of Michelangelo.

And indeed there will be time
To wonder, “Do I dare?” and, “Do I dare?”
Time to turn back and descend the stair,
With a bald spot in the middle of my hair— 40
(They will say: “How his hair is growing thin!”)
My morning coat, my collar mounting firmly to the chin,
My necktie rich and modest, but asserted by a simple pin—
(They will say: “But how his arms and legs are thin!”)
Do I dare 45
Disturb the universe?
In a minute there is time
For decisions and revisions which a minute will reverse.

For I have known them all already, known them all:
Have known the evenings, mornings, afternoons, 50
I have measured out my life with coffee spoons;
I know the voices dying with a dying fall
Beneath the music from a farther room.
So how should I presume?

And I have known the eyes already, known them all— 55
The eyes that fix you in a formulated phrase,
And when I am formulated, sprawling on a pin,
When I am pinned and wriggling on the wall,
Then how should I begin
To spit out all the butt-ends of my days and ways? 60
And how should I presume?

And I have known the arms already, known them all—
Arms that are braceleted and white and bare
(But in the lamplight, downed with light brown hair!)
Is it perfume from a dress 65
That makes me so digress?
Arms that lie along a table, or wrap about a shawl.
And should I then presume?
And how should I begin?
. . . . . . . .
Shall I say, I have gone at dusk through narrow streets 70
And watched the smoke that rises from the pipes
Of lonely men in shirt-sleeves, leaning out of windows?…

I should have been a pair of ragged claws
Scuttling across the floors of silent seas.
. . . . . . . .
And the afternoon, the evening, sleeps so peacefully! 75
Smoothed by long fingers,
Asleep … tired … or it malingers,
Stretched on the floor, here beside you and me.
Should I, after tea and cakes and ices,
Have the strength to force the moment to its crisis? 80
But though I have wept and fasted, wept and prayed,
Though I have seen my head (grown slightly bald) brought in upon a platter,
I am no prophet—and here’s no great matter;
I have seen the moment of my greatness flicker,
And I have seen the eternal Footman hold my coat, and snicker, 85
And in short, I was afraid.

And would it have been worth it, after all,
After the cups, the marmalade, the tea,
Among the porcelain, among some talk of you and me,
Would it have been worth while, 90
To have bitten off the matter with a smile,
To have squeezed the universe into a ball
To roll it toward some overwhelming question,
To say: “I am Lazarus, come from the dead,
Come back to tell you all, I shall tell you all”— 95
If one, settling a pillow by her head,
Should say: “That is not what I meant at all;
That is not it, at all.”

And would it have been worth it, after all,
Would it have been worth while, 100
After the sunsets and the dooryards and the sprinkled streets,
After the novels, after the teacups, after the skirts that trail along the floor—
And this, and so much more?—
It is impossible to say just what I mean!
But as if a magic lantern threw the nerves in patterns on a screen: 105
Would it have been worth while
If one, settling a pillow or throwing off a shawl,
And turning toward the window, should say:
“That is not it at all,
That is not what I meant, at all.”
. . . . . . . .
110
No! I am not Prince Hamlet, nor was meant to be;
Am an attendant lord, one that will do
To swell a progress, start a scene or two,
Advise the prince; no doubt, an easy tool,
Deferential, glad to be of use, 115
Politic, cautious, and meticulous;
Full of high sentence, but a bit obtuse;
At times, indeed, almost ridiculous—
Almost, at times, the Fool.

I grow old … I grow old … 120
I shall wear the bottoms of my trousers rolled.

Shall I part my hair behind? Do I dare to eat a peach?
I shall wear white flannel trousers, and walk upon the beach.
I have heard the mermaids singing, each to each.

I do not think that they will sing to me. 125

I have seen them riding seaward on the waves
Combing the white hair of the waves blown back
When the wind blows the water white and black.

We have lingered in the chambers of the sea
By sea-girls wreathed with seaweed red and brown 130
Till human voices wake us, and we drown.


TBRich's photo
Thu 05/01/14 01:02 PM
Was that too melancholia? How about this-

e. e. cummings

anyone lived in a pretty how town
(with up so floating many bells down)
spring summer autumn winter
he sang his didn't he danced his did

Women and men(both little and small)
cared for anyone not at all
they sowed their isn't they reaped their same
sun moon stars rain

children guessed(but only a few
and down they forgot as up they grew
autumn winter spring summer)
that noone loved him more by more

when by now and tree by leaf
she laughed his joy she cried his grief
bird by snow and stir by still
anyone's any was all to her

someones married their everyones
laughed their cryings and did their dance
(sleep wake hope and then)they
said their nevers they slept their dream

stars rain sun moon
(and only the snow can begin to explain
how children are apt to forget to remember
with up so floating many bells down)

one day anyone died i guess
(and noone stooped to kiss his face)
busy folk buried them side by side
little by little and was by was

all by all and deep by deep
and more by more they dream their sleep
noone and anyone earth by april
wish by spirit and if by yes.

Women and men(both dong and ding)
summer autumn winter spring
reaped their sowing and went their came
sun moon stars rain

gibbs1602's photo
Thu 05/01/14 01:32 PM
spend it with my daughter

luvmeforlife's photo
Thu 05/01/14 01:37 PM
lol I'd take the credit card out and book the next flight out to St. Thomas, fall in love with a local boy, and live it up till the sun came up. I'd cry and laugh and pray and laugh some more and call everyone I knew to tell them I loved them.

no photo
Thu 05/01/14 01:40 PM
I'd be terrified but I would see my Sis again so that would be comforting