Thunder_Chicken
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Envision that you are elderly, or perhaps a younger person with a terminal disease. You are in good health now, but know that your days are numbered and you want to make the most of them. What would you do?
This came up as a rather interesting conversation over dinner with friends a few weeks ago, and actually made several of us consider the positive aspects of death. We came up with a few rules to bound our imaginations:
Ideas that were kicked about:
Take every illicit drug that you scrupulously avoided in college. ALL of them. LSD, methamphetamine, whatever. Mix em up, the more colorful the pill the better. Hell, you're a 90 year old in a walker - how much trouble could you possibly cause?.
Join the bomb squad for those particularly dangerous defusings. Stand back and just give me a good bottle of whiskey and some rusty wire-cutters. Do I cut the red or the black wire? Who cares, I'll just cut em all.
Join the army and send me out against the enemy. Imagine an army of old geezers with NO fear of death coming over the hill at you, racing to beat you to your 72 virgins.
Take up wingsuit jumping. Good, but unfortunately there is a risk of hitting the ground and living:
But we felt that this would likely finish off grandma with her osteoporosis and all that.
Help clean up Chernobyl and Fukushima. Cancer, schmancer! I already have stage IV lung cancer...the radiation might actually help. And look at the pretty blue glow! Some pensioners in Japan have already suggested this.
What are your ideas?
This came up as a rather interesting conversation over dinner with friends a few weeks ago, and actually made several of us consider the positive aspects of death. We came up with a few rules to bound our imaginations:
- Whatever you do, it should not harm anyone else.
- If you screw up, you don't want to be injured (slow, agonizing pain) - you would prefer to be blown to smithereens...no dilly-dallying.
- Doing something where our deaths would do something positive for the rest of the living would be ideal, but not necessarily required.
Ideas that were kicked about:
Take every illicit drug that you scrupulously avoided in college. ALL of them. LSD, methamphetamine, whatever. Mix em up, the more colorful the pill the better. Hell, you're a 90 year old in a walker - how much trouble could you possibly cause?.
Join the bomb squad for those particularly dangerous defusings. Stand back and just give me a good bottle of whiskey and some rusty wire-cutters. Do I cut the red or the black wire? Who cares, I'll just cut em all.
Join the army and send me out against the enemy. Imagine an army of old geezers with NO fear of death coming over the hill at you, racing to beat you to your 72 virgins.
Take up wingsuit jumping. Good, but unfortunately there is a risk of hitting the ground and living:
But we felt that this would likely finish off grandma with her osteoporosis and all that.
Help clean up Chernobyl and Fukushima. Cancer, schmancer! I already have stage IV lung cancer...the radiation might actually help. And look at the pretty blue glow! Some pensioners in Japan have already suggested this.
What are your ideas?
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