What would you do if someone tried to convert you on your death bed?

Question

Okay, let's say that hypothetically, you're on your death bed. And someone of a different faith comes to you and tries to get you to convert to their religion. (Doesn't matter what belief you have, the guy coming to you is just a different one). What would you do?

Answer 1

this actually happens to a lot of atheist and most of them tell them to "go F#ck your self!!"

Answer 2

I'd probably slap the disrespect out of their mouth and tell them to stop preaching about some book, constructed by simple minded fools and start trying to make this, the real world, a better place. I'd let them know that if there is an afterlife I will do everything in my power to smite them if I ever catch them preaching their ignorant, psycho-babble to anybody else.

Answer 3

Well it really would depend on my mood, how much time I thought I had left, and whether or not I found their antics amusing or just offensive.

My response would range any where from cussing them out and blaspheming their god one last time to debating and playing mind games with them.

Afterward when they left the room I would say the same thing Beethoven said when the Catholic priest left: "Applaud, my friends, the comedy is over."

Answer 4

I hope that I would try to understand that the person really wishes me no harm, and is acting out of ignorance. I hope that I would take whatever love and positive motivation there is in that moment, and apply it to my own spiritual practice. I would hope to integrate that experience in a way that recognizes the suffering of the person who is acting out of ignorance, and take that as motivation to meditate upon a rebirth that will allow me to work toward the elimination of suffering and its causes for all sentient beings.

Certainly, it would be a big challenge.

Answer 5

I would pick up the phone, call hospital security and tell them there was a mental patient in my room, and he looks dangerous, and to please bring a straight jacket, because he's foaming at the mouth and yammering about gods and spirits.

Some months ago I was caring for a man who was dying of cancer (I'm a nurse). His daughter was visiting, and she was praying out loud and saying "Thank you, Jesus," over and over. The man was looking embarrassed. After she left, he explained to me he had told her he had "accepted Jesus as his personal savior," hence the daughter's histrionics.
"I didn't mean it," he said later,"I've been an atheist all my life, and I see no reason to change that now. I just wanted her to shut up and stop telling me I was going to hell."

Answer 6

Thank them for their concern and (as kindly as possible depending on pain and such) ask them to leave me be. I've spent enough of my living hours examining religious practice and belief to be comfortable in my choices. Last minute changes would go against my integrity.

Answer 7

I would first tell them that while I appreciate their concern, I'm not going to convert to their religion. Then I will thank them for their time, and ask them to leave me in peace. If they then don't leave, I will have them forcibly removed.

Answer 8

That depend on what your faith is. If it is based on anything but the cross and on anyone but Jesus, you need to get right with Him today, for a death bed conversion is'nt guaranteed.

Answer 9

"Get lost unless you want to share this experience with me" comes to mind, although I doubt I'd say it that politely. I have a bit of a temper.

Answer 10

Quote the Shema.

Answer 11

I would smile - because my mind is made up - there is no life in the hereafter.
Pharisaic Jews do not believe in Angels and they do not believe in a hereafter - neither do I.