Discussion If you had a terminal illness and you were to die in 4 months, what would you think and/or do?

[ploppington]

if I were not able to move much, I would probbaly just like watch my favorite shows.

If I could move and do things, maybe like just appreciate the fact that I can move and just do fun activities like hang out with friends/ppl i love and try to do a real pull up maybe. Just something I've never done.

Whatever my reaction is I am neutral. Maybe even positive. Some sadness like a lot of my emotions. I'm going to be scared and feel negative things like a regular human, but I know logically within myself it's going to be ok.

I would also DEFINITELY try to get high on feel good drugs like meth and/or cigarettes. For sure.

 

[Eventually_An_Angel]

go hell yeah and play the rest of the ace attorney games

 

[ijustwishtodie]

Since euthanasia is about to be legalised for those with 6 months or less remaining due to a terminal illness in the UK, I would try and get applied for euthanasia

 

[exhumed101]

if I were not able to move much, I would probbaly just like watch my favorite shows.

If I could move and do things, maybe like just appreciate the fact that I can move and just do fun activities like hang out with friends/ppl i love and try to do a real pull up maybe. Just something I've never done.

Whatever my reaction is I am neutral. Maybe even positive. Some sadness like a lot of my emotions. I'm going to be scared and feel negative things like a regular human, but I know logically within myself it's going to be ok.

I would also DEFINITELY try to get high on feel good drugs like meth and/or cigarettes. For sure.

It would motivate me to die sooner

 

[FuneralCry]

Just be relieved that the suffering will be ending and I'll be spared from potentially decades longer of being burdened with this futile, torturous existence. I only hope to die, non-existence is all that can bring me peace, I'll always personally see human existence as an abomination, I'd never wish to be conscious in this existence at all, I find it deeply undesirable to suffer in this existence, to be non-existent for all eternity with this terrible, dreadful existence finally no longer my problem is all I hope for.

 

[HarryCobean]

Attempt to heavily guilt-trip all the people who treated me badly, though this probably wouldn't work as I seriously doubt they even have a conscience.

 

[dontwakemeup]

I would be so happy and finally at peace. I think that's when life would begin for me. Knowing I had a tangible date, I could smile again. It's the not knowing that makes me anxious and hopeless.

 

[billie]

i would be full of anticipation

 

[darkenmydoorstep]

Rack up a massive bill on a credit card doing all the stuff I can't afford to do now.

 

[LostLily]

Quit my job and take that trip to Japan and Rome I always wanted.

And feel relief can finally be at able to escape life without hurting my friends and family

 

[viljalauss]

be happy
weed and lsd and maybe 2cb
go make some tasty baked goods. zero need to worry about weight if i'm dying that soon. actually might gather my friends for a feast (or two) for which i would also cook lots of tasty savoury food
speedrun music projects or at least make sure all lyrics are out there
maybe watch a few carefully selected episodes of my very favourite shows (thinking about stath lets flats in particular)
assuming i can go out, go to a cat shelter or just houses of people i know and pet as many cats as possible
again assuming i can go out, maybe go back to copenhagen or visit somewhere new in greece. i somehow felt very at home in both those places. or if any of my favourite artists are touring (in europe and if the tickets aren't toooo expensive) go see them even if it means using up a lot of remaining money
find places to donate to
take a one-off drawing class or smth else that would be fun
make some cyanotypes! and etchings. if both are accessible. only did both once in art class but enjoyed it a lot and think they would both be cool forms of art to leave behind

 

[lachrymost]

Try to get approved for MAiD. Drink. Celebrate. Be joyful. Forced-lifers want me to gamble forever instead of getting this guaranteed joy. It makes me cry with desperation, imagining that joy.

 

[pumpkinz]

Sad that I'll never get what I wanted from life and I'll die alone. But also relieved to have a peaceful-ish way out. Glad to end the pain but crippled by the fact I will die a virgin who's never even fucking held hands with a guy. Never got close to anyone. Never been comforted by anyone. Never had anyone care. I'll die alone with all the stories of my life I never got to tell anyone. That hopelessness, would probably ruin the peace of dying unfortunately

 

[RiverOfLife]

I would be relieved. I'd still work on getting my affairs in order. And take a trip and relax.

 

[SA1994EC]

Assuming it brings a peaceful calm death, I will feel happy and spend the last moment on earth doing nothing other than daily things. My life itself killed my desire, curiosity, interest completely a long time ago. And the last straw was the recent physical damages, which are getting worse. I just need to end the suffering.

 

[TheHolySword]

Take a leave of absence from work. Spend the rest of my days with my brother. Not interested in doing very much. I'm planning to CTB in about 5 months anyways, and my only plans are to write my letters and my will. I don't think anything would really change if I had a terminal diagnosis except I could take a leave from work without quitting

 

[Yume Nikki]

Play all the video games I ever wanted and spend the rest of my days with family. I'd rather die in my apartment then in a hospital bed tbh.

 

[greebo6]

I would feel a great feeling of peace and contentment . Sheer relief. Id be scared of any pain to come (though not of death itself) but relieved and accepting all the same. I might even bey be that thing I can't even remember feeling... happy.
If not incapacitated , perhaps max out a few credit cards to try and have a last little bit of fun. But only maybe.
I'd probably actually do very little.

 

[TAW122]

In a situation like that, and assuming I have the physical capability to travel to Switzerland or a state with "death with dignity" laws and such, I would definitely go for such an option. It would be very likely that I would qualify (terminal illness and such) and some states don't have a residency requirement (Vermont, Oregon for instance), so in the scenario of 4 months or less to live (which already meets the criteria of 6 months or less) and assuming I meet the other eligibility requirements, then I would opt for a quick end to spare myself additional suffering.

Additionally, I would try to tie loose ends in my 4 months of remaining time in the world.

 

[Chinaski]

Take revenge with impunity.

 

[Blue Dream]

Take out a local oligarch for some Delightfully Delicious Donuts.

 

[Chinaski]

Shoot a CEO.

I am a sensible liberal and this is murder and also white privilege, you want to shoot people with my full throated support become a cop

 

[nomoredolor]

omg I would be so happy.
I could formally say goodbye to my friends and family. And their sorrow and grief would not be my fault or my burden to bear. Assuming I'm still able to do so I would make my loved ones art to remember me by. I would champion for my causes.
I would eat a bunch of rich yummy food.
If I was able to I would travel to Japan and Scotland and Hawaii.
I would finish planning my celebration of life.
I would arrange for an eco urn to turn me into a tree or coral reef,
I would do fun things with the people I love.
It would be a very happy time for me Im getting a dopamine dump just imagining it, I would feel such relief.
Drugs to ease my ending.
And some ecstasy for fun sex lol

Anna

 

[ShatteredSerenity]

Considering that terminal illnesses are usually rather unpleasant ordeals, I'd probably be spending a lot of time suffering and trying to take care of myself the best I could. I would appreciate if an illness brought my family together to support me through death, instead of the loneliness of CTB I'm currently facing. In the end I'm not sure that would help me feel much better, since death is scary no matter what. I would prefer to not have to take death into my own hands, but death from an illness raises all kinds of other issues, like how painful it will be and how long it will drag on.

 

[TheMountainTreeEgg]

I think I would live more in the moment while not telling anyone anything and I would try to finally commit to beating Radahn in SOTE

 

[mrelief82]

I would be so fucking happy , finally ! I feel like I have mental cancer for years and dying over and o er again yet still here , can't function though. This would be sth I was waiting for since I can't recover and live . I was living last 5 years like I had few months to live left , it finished because life goes on . I would just try to go somewhere for holiday and rest of the time just sit and wait watching Netflix , I am unable to sort my affairs but then would be able to give some tips for my familly solving them . This would be sth I prayed for really because otherwise I have to cbt really soon .

 

[divinemistress36]

Do a bunch of drugs and sex