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[–] GoofSchmoofer 12 points 6 days ago* (last edited 6 days ago)

It's a great thought experiment to get us to think about what is truly important -

No one is going to answer "work more" or "continue to conform to other's expectations of me." or any other thing that we are taught to believe are important.

Sure having some savings is important, your health is important (except maybe not so much in this instance), but really life is about experiencing life not creating shareholder value or working hard to blend into the crowd just to make other people less uncomfortable.

I know I went off on a tangent, I do that often. But I've been thinking more about how in the west we are taught aggressively from a young age what is deemed important (work, money, prestige, name brand things, etc) and what is frivolous (hobbies, family, friends, etc) and then people wonder why life sucks. It doesn't suck, it's that you are trying to conform to something that goes against your true nature.

To answer the question: travel, spend time with people I love, play video games, eat more cheeseburgers, drink more beer.

[–] riodoro1 14 points 6 days ago (2 children)
[–] LifeInMultipleChoice 2 points 6 days ago

Second opinion: "That other doctor had the month wrong, you only have 28 days to live"

[–] [email protected] 1 points 6 days ago

After doing all the tests again they found that you have died already.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 6 days ago* (last edited 6 days ago)

Find a heroin dealer. It's about the only situation where I'd touch that stuff.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 6 days ago

Study up on Luigi stuff

[–] [email protected] 5 points 6 days ago

First stop: Arby's. I'm going to die anyways.

[–] LovableSidekick 3 points 6 days ago* (last edited 6 days ago)

I immediately sought a second opinion, but the earliest appointment was two months from now.

[–] daggermoon 5 points 6 days ago

Cry because I have accomplished nothing with my life

[–] orgrinrt 4 points 6 days ago

I’d probably dedicate some days each week to friends or family, to have more active contact before it’s late, but be shamelessly selfish the other days and spend them trying to finish some of my hobby projects and finally finishing The Witcher 3 if possible.

That’s going to be rough to those currently on my daily agenda, like partner and kid, but I’ve given so much to them, and so little to others I care about, that the balance has to be leaning towards the latter.

Not sure if I actually could do that though. But that’s what I’d hope I’d be able to push for.

[–] NocturnalEngineer 3 points 6 days ago

Ask if there's an expedite process.

[–] [email protected] 75 points 1 week ago (2 children)

Prove him wrong and drive my motorcycle into a highway median at top speed 5 minutes later. I’ll be god dammed if I’m gonna let some doctor think he got the better of me.

[–] SVcross 2 points 6 days ago

You became death locked the second he said it. You have just become immortal for a month.

[–] [email protected] 14 points 1 week ago (2 children)

If you survive that, at least you only have 31 days left to live.

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[–] Lauchs 71 points 1 week ago (1 children)
[–] ivanafterall 12 points 1 week ago

If "I'm dying in 31 days" doesn't work as a pickup line, then fuck my life anyways.

[–] [email protected] 70 points 1 week ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 12 points 1 week ago

Same, same. If immediate consequences don't matter, fuck it.

[–] over_clox 55 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Probably play some Shotgun Mario and Luigi..

[–] Fredselfish 15 points 1 week ago
[–] [email protected] 49 points 1 week ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 30 points 1 week ago (1 children)

“You got 5"

5 what?

"4 3 2 1"

[–] JustAnotherKay 23 points 1 week ago

Doctor says "I got bad news and even worse news. The bad news is, you have 24 hours to live"

I said "Oh my god Doc! What could be worse than that?"

Doctor comes back, "I couldn't get ahold of you yesterday!

(24 hours Joyner Lucas iirc)

[–] [email protected] 43 points 1 week ago (2 children)

Easy ... have a big fat funeral for myself, hand off everything I own to the people I had willed everything to. Tell them thanks. Say goodbye to everyone and leave myself about $1,000. Go off to my parents hunt camp and traditional lands and live out there by myself until the 31 days are over.

I've travelled the world, saw many things, did many things, had a great time but now I'm old and sore all the time and I can't run around as fast or as much any more. I just like sitting, relaxing and enjoying some peace and quiet.

If someone told me I had a month, I want to just spend those last 30 days as quietly as possible looking at trees, water and being around absolutely no one.

[–] [email protected] 17 points 1 week ago

Same, except I'd skip the funeral, and on the last day I'd find a remote tree and tie myself there so I could be naturally excarnated:

The Moriori people of the Chatham Islands placed their dead in a sitting position ... strapped to young trees in the forest. In time, the tree grew into and through the bones, making them one.

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[–] [email protected] 30 points 1 week ago
[–] [email protected] 30 points 1 week ago

let's just say there's about to be another luigi on the news

[–] [email protected] 30 points 1 week ago (4 children)

Play Super Mario Bros as the second player for 31 days straight.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 6 days ago

Duck Hunt second player is the best.

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[–] [email protected] 27 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (1 children)

31 days of perfect health and then drop dead? Or 31 days of slow, debilitating, crushing agony and pain and then death? I just lost my best friend to perotineal cancer, from diagnosis to her passing was 97 days. She made plans to travel with her daughter, spend time with friends, write a will, etc. but she ended up spending a majority of that time in the hospital on heavy duty narcotics and offer her nut because of them. I don't think anyone would plan on spending their last 31 days like that but it's more realistic.

Tldr: do the things you would do with news like this now... Don't wait until it might be impossible.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 6 days ago (1 children)

I'm so sorry for your loss.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 6 days ago

I appreciate that. She was an amazing person. I told her she was just dying so she didn't have to suffer through another Trump presidency.

[–] [email protected] 26 points 1 week ago (2 children)

Find another doctor because that one obviously has mental health issues.

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[–] FanciestPants 23 points 1 week ago

Sign up for all of the one-month free trials.

[–] firadin 22 points 1 week ago

Get into the plumbing business

[–] [email protected] 16 points 1 week ago (3 children)

I'll get myself a wikipedia page 😉

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[–] [email protected] 16 points 1 week ago

Ask my wife to take the month off, or quit her job, then spend 25 days doing whatever she wants. The last week we can spend with my family.

[–] Xaphanos 15 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)
  • Set up my will.
  • Dispose of the accumulated cruft.
  • Get the house ready to sell.
  • Document all my accounts.
  • Move money as appropriate.
  • Provide for preservation/distribution of my genealogy research.
  • Work to prepare my friends and family for life without me.
[–] Carnelian 14 points 1 week ago (2 children)

Wouldn't be too bad all things considered, all signs point to Silksong releasing on the 14th, so I’ll have a couple weeks to play it

[–] [email protected] 12 points 1 week ago

The 14th of... 2036? 2175? Octembuary?

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[–] [email protected] 12 points 1 week ago (3 children)

Quit my jobs.

Give my money to loved ones.

Max out my credit cards.

All the drugs. all

Finish stalker 2

Play space engineers and valheim with what time i have left.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 6 days ago

I’ve done ALMOST all of the drugs. I’m saving opiates for if I’m terminal.

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