Imagine suddenly you no longer exist, poof, from one day to the next there is no more you.
What if you knew that this day would come in a month?
What if it wasn’t for another year?
Or in 5 years?
Would you spend your remaining time differently than you do now?
If so, why aren’t you already doing it?
Yes, yes i would.
But I’m not poofing, so I’m not willing to go to prison.
My own life only? Not everything?
One year? And I am healthy for it? Maybe quit working, spend the retirement money traveling for awhile. Maybe.
Five years, and I am healthy for them? And only I know this? Increase my life insurance each year, keep working but take longer breaks, try to make sure that my husband can pay off the house and stuff with the life insurance.
Why am I not doing these things? Because they are short term plans that would be harmful over a longer lifetime. The first, obviously, but the second would be expensive and unsustainable as well. Like it or not, I have to plan for a long life, keep healthy, keep my job, and I am pretty happy already.
I have what may be a unique perspective here. I have a brain tumor, glioma, diagnosed August 2023. I was told I had 1-3 years to live with a 99% chance. As it turns out, I have a rare slow-growing type (oligodendroglioma) with the right mutations. I got treatment and now I still have the tumor but I have a prognosis to live for a long time.
So what did I learn? Not much, mostly cliches. But have the drink, laugh with people, enjoy the day. There is no magic revelation. Enjoy the day. If you don’t enjoy the day, learn from that and fix it.
I’d type more but there’s not much more to put. I spent time making a will, ensuring my affairs were in order. I was gonn quit my job and travel, but it turned out I need the insurance. Luckily for me I like my job and my company. Everything is ethereal.
Yeah. I would stop studying and just focus on things I enjoy
Sure. No need to save up or plan for a future that never comes, so I’d stop saving up money and probably stop working depending on how far in the future it is. Then try to cram as many things that I always wanted to do as possible into my remaining time.
I might plan and save even more. I Have kids in college and my priority for almost 20 years has been to do my best to give them a good start in life. If I won’t live to see it, won’t have the income to make it so, I’ll live like a pauper to set aside enough for them to at least finish school
I’d spend time with loved ones and look forward to not having to deal with gestures vaguely at the world this bullshit ever again.
Would you spend your remaining time differently than you do now? If so, why aren’t you already doing it?
Others have said it in the thread, but this is simple. When your time is short (or shorter), the length of time you need to deal with the consequences of your actions disappears or diminishes significantly.
So the real question is actually, what would you do if you didn’t have to deal with the consequences? And I think asking it any other way is disingenuous.
See my reply above …. Some of us do take the question differently. Some of us have unfinished business we’ll do anything to finish, even if we never see it. Done of us _only_care about the cnsequences
If I wouldn’t see my next paycheck, I’d stop working. No need to do so then.
Imagine suddenly you no longer exist, poof, from one day to the next there is no more you.
On the last day I’d throw a big party. Then as my time approached I’d say: “Attention everyone! There’s something I never told you. My real name is Sergius of Proxima Centauri! I come from another planet! And it is now time for me to beam up to my spaceship. Somebody film this please…” Then I’d sit in a full-lotus position til I disappeared.
No, seriously, I’d just double-check my will and give away most my personal stuff, then go on living like always.
If I had one year left without slowly feeling worse because of some sickness I think I would just continue what I’m doing already but with an extreme deadline.
- make sure I make the best with my family
- finish my dissertation, a year is doable
- organize my archival/datahoarding material to be accessible to family and backed up
- make my will very clear
- maybe the biggest change I would make would be to divorce my partner so I can max out my credit cards traveling with them to see family and friends in three countries.
- maybe try to take more seriously meditation, an hour a day
- I’m not sure I would want to do anything that could hurt my family, their opinion of me, or separate me from them during that year.
Five years is such a significant amount of time I really don’t know if that could change anything. The deadlines would feel so far away.
A month would feel crazy fast. This might cause me to make more radical changes.
I’d put everything on credit cards that I’m responsible for. No co signer. So when I die there’s nothing they can do. Then travel the world. Also would withdraw my 401k and have fun. That’s if I’m dead in a year. By the time they figure it out, I’m dead (that is if I’m smart about how I do it).
What are they doing to do? Dig me up and put me in jail?
In some cases your debt is passed on to your heirs. Consult a lawyer familiar with your local laws.
In my place, you can either accept the inheritance in full (including debts) or decline in full. So you cannot say that you keep the car but won’t pay the loan.
Yeah… the case I had in mind was similar. A relative inherited some property but also the debt, so they ended up with a tiny amount of money – it was basically a waste of time. I heard something similar regarding timeshares (which sound like a curse from hell.) But I’m not a lawyer and the laws vary by jurisdiction.
This is completely illegal in the United States, and may also be in other countries.
If you live in the US and a collector comes after you for your parents’ debt, tell them to bite rocks (or if you can afford to, rake them over the coals in court).
So the obvious trick is to give your money away while you still can
Ts not quite that simple - some things like nursing homes are allowed a five year look back to prevent exactly “this one simple trick they don’t want you to know”.
And I’m sure they can call it fraud if it’s too obvious, and do … something
I already know it will soon be over, that’s one surety in life.
If that were really true, then spending time on Lemmy is part of your answer.
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Oh fuck yeah. Id hop on that website showing all dots for kiddie diddlers, and start reducing the number of dots one by one.
How about corrupt politicians who are also on the epstein list 🤔
(I mean its harder to find their location, but just hang around in DC long enough and you’ll see their pattern of movement…)
Na. Way too likely of yielding way less omissions. I’m not trying to make a fuckin political movement. I’m trying to kill as many people who fuck kids as possible.
Would you spend your remaining time differently than you do now? If so, why aren’t you already doing it
I’d go on a big trip around the world. I love traveling but my budget is limited, and also that thing called a job, even tho I have a lot of PTO it’s not easy to take more than a couple of weeks at a time
Over just for me or everyone?
This is a great distinction that needs further investigation.
I thought of “you” as an individual. But lets keep this thread going…
What you did either way wouldn’t matter to you but it would affect others in the prior. But would you care?
