Suspend disbelief for a moment and take it for a fact that you indeed have 7 days left to live.
How would you spend them? (I'm not expecting you to say I'd run out and find God, I'm actually interested in what you would do for real).
Thanks!
2007-01-31 16:52:36 · 14 answers · asked by Last Ent Wife (RCIA) 7 in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
JP you sound like a Buddhist not an Atheist.
Black Atheist- I said to suspend disbelief.
2007-01-31 18:51:09 · update #1
Do you mean non-Christians or people who believe in no metaphysics at all?
2007-01-31 16:56:09 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 1⤋
Maurice H is not an atheist but replies for them. Time to go play with your imaginary friend Maurice. Off you go, there's a good boy. I pretty much agree with JP although I doubt friends will destroy their photos of me. Not being bigheaded, that's just the way people are. I have asked many times that I be cremated so that no one will forget my wishes. That way there will be no tombstone for friends or family to attend. I would prefer to be remembered in peoples minds. I think in those last seven days I would write a will then go and buy some very nice restaurant meals and drink some very nice red wine. I would spend time with my family but don't know if I would tell them I was dying. There would be too much fuss. I would think about what lies ahead. If there is a God I still wouldn't worship and adore him. Is that what a decent God would want? And if there is nothing then all the better. Because I'll be dead and won't know about it!
2007-02-01 01:28:28 · answer #2 · answered by Watcher 465 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Should I ever get a terminal illness, I plan to become a Christian on my deathbed just to make a few of my Christian friends and family happy, It really won't make a difference at that point, since dead is dead. But hey, if there is something on the other side (about a nil chance), then I won the lottery! I kinda doubt it, though. As far as I can see, this is all there is. But if it'll relieve a few minds of loved ones, I honestly do not see the harm.
But up until that point, I plan to take a page out if the 9-11 hijackers book and spend the 6 days before that in strip clubs, porn theaters, smoking, and drinking, and eating trans fats.
2007-02-01 01:03:22 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 1⤋
I'd quit my job for one thing. Get my affairs quickly in order, make sure my most trusted friend was truly willing to carry out my last wish, keep myself high on caffeine so I didn't sleep the whole week, spend as much time online with friends and writing out the best of my ideas.
My last wish is that I be cremated and my cremains placed in a paper bag and buried at a randomly determined latitude and longitude in my home state, and that the friend who does it never reveals the location to anyone.
I also ask that all reminders of me be destroyed, anything with my name or likeness on them.
I want, in death, to be forgotten. I want my ideas to continue on their own without the burden of the originator.
2007-02-01 00:58:28 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 0⤋
Hope the insurance companies don't find out that I knew beforehand, and take out a huge life-insurance policy.
Then I'd spend the week travelling with my kids, showing them my favorite places on this earth. I'd plan the funeral I want, and afterwards, my kids would be set for life, and my favorite charities would have something to remember me by.
Then again, I'm a Wiccan.
2007-02-01 01:02:13 · answer #5 · answered by Deirdre H 7 · 1⤊ 1⤋
Lots of time with family and friends, do things within reason that I'd always wanted to do, tie up some lose ends in personal business/details that others couldn't figure out after me...make sure loved ones knew what I wanted done with me...
2007-02-01 00:57:50 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
I would figure out how to live longer. If there's a will, there's a way
Edit
Tangent, You're not an Atheist. Why lie.
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Amazing Larry,
You're not an Atheist. I read your questions and your answers.
2007-02-01 00:57:45 · answer #7 · answered by Black Atheist 1 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Probably try to get down many of my ideas for inventions and movie/TV shows into a book.
Something that people can peruse after I've died and decide on whether they'd like to continue them.
2007-02-01 01:09:24 · answer #8 · answered by eigelhorn 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Consider no one here will know for certain what they would do if they found they only had one week to live, I will say an honest answer which would be panic for the fear of the unknown.
2007-02-01 00:59:59 · answer #9 · answered by Lief Tanner 5 · 1⤊ 0⤋
I would go to Hawaii and swim naked in the Ocean. Then I would spend all my money on gourmet food served by midgets in bikinis.
2007-02-01 00:58:22 · answer #10 · answered by Robby 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I'm a single doctor in my early 30s with very little family around so i would probably go hiking by myself as i like the solitude
2007-02-01 00:58:09 · answer #11 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 2⤋