What would you do for the rest of your life if you knew your death date?

Depends on how long I have. Anything under 24 hours, and I'd probably just jerk off the whole time.

What is the date? That would affect my long term planning.

The death date for all is December 21, 2012. Mark my words.

http://www.december212012.com/

try as hard as i could to forget.

quit my job, run 120 mile weeks, drink beer... alot of beer, and attempt to fall into love.

Eat all the corn chowder I could. That stuff is to die for.

death date wrote:

The death date for all is December 21, 2012. Mark my words.

http://www.december212012.com/

You must have missed the thread a while ago about how it's impossible for the whole world to end on the same day because it's never the same day everywhere on earth.

But back to the OP's topic.

Here's what I would do:

Less than 24 hours to go: send emails, make phone calls, tell everyone what I think of them. Possibly go on a murderous rampage, depending on my mood.

1-7 days to go: drive/fly somewhere I've always wanted to go, without telling anyone where. Last 24 hours, see above.

weeks to a year to go: drop out of school, go somewhere cool, do something cool...basically, bucket list. on the last day, see above.

1-15 years to go: this is probably the hardest range of time to have. You can't quite drop everything and have as much fun as you want, but you can't really plan for a future either, especially if you still have some schooling ahead of you. (No need to go to med school if you won't make it past residency, for instance). I'd probably end up being an alcoholic or something.

Over 15 years: I'd live life normally, at least until the last year. Start a family, try to further my career, the whole works. But I'm not sure if I'll tell everyone about the prophecy, maybe not even my family. The last year would be fun, but no murderous rampage (I'll almost be middle aged, anyhow, dying then is for the best).

This made me laugh (especially the parts about the murderous rampages)! Looks like you have given it lots of thought. I'm 57, so it's too late for a murderous rampage? Guess I should just wait around to die. Oh, and I should stop wasting my precious remaining time on Letsrun.

The end will occur at December 21, 2012 in Washington, DC. For all intensive purposes, DC is the center of the world.

death date wrote:

The end will occur at December 21, 2012 in Washington, DC. For all intensive purposes, DC is the center of the world.

But for all intents and purposes, it's not.

Assuming no one else knew, I'd buy obscene amounts of life insurance and set my family up for life.

Other than that, I'd probably do about what I do now. I like my life just fine.

If I knew I was going to die on, say, April 18th, 2014, I would commit suicide on April 17th, 2014.

DID I JUST BLOW YOUR MIND??

death date wrote:

The death date for all is December 21, 2012. Mark my words.

http://www.december212012.com/

Did you camp out in Hawaii, stocking up on gallons of water and stockpiles of food right before Y2K?

Let's pretend that there is some cosmic significance to this date (shucks, 12/12/12 would've been so much more symmetrical), as in formal transformation and the not-so-ceremonial passing of the geopolitical and economic torch to the Dragons of the Far East (hence the fire analogy), say, for argument's sake, from the fallen US empire crushed by the weight of it's own gluttony for all things food, credit, and hedonistic. Of course, it's just yet another hypothesis.

I will say that this Government is trying to coerce another credit binge, hair of the dog for the hungover through their myopic prism, and they will leave some type of legacy, that's for sure.

I would immediately get off letsrun.

Party like it's 1959 ;then one hour before, REPENT.

What's funny about that is that Prince sure had it right about partying like it's 1999. That prediction just may have marked the very top of the reigning Empire as we knew it.

Oh, I never answered the original question. You tend to get from the universe in proportion to what you give, over a period of time that may or may not corrspond with your cranium's capacity for patience and persistence, but I would say that we should all spend a lot of time forgiving, atoning, and paying it forward, regardless of faith or lack thereof. We should all be grateful that we can even sit here typing, musing, and arguing. We all won the lottery of just BEING.

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If I knew I was going to die on, say, April 18th, 2014, I would commit suicide on April 17th, 2014.

DID I JUST BLOW YOUR MIND??

Not really. You'd end up fulfilling the prophecy by doing a bad job of suicide and dying the next day of your injuries.