POLL: If you only had one month to live, would you want to know?

[psteng19]

Say you had a terminal illness.
Would you want to know?

 

[Red Dawn]

DOH! misread the question!

 

[osiris3mc]

God, I can only imagine what that would be like. My heart goes out to people in such a situation.

 

[FrustratedUser]

Is Adul really a female?

 

[rgwalt]

Absolutely. I'd need to take care of a few things.

R

 

[meltdown75]

Yes please.

 

[J Heartless Slick]

Yes, so I could book a flight to Hawaii. I figure a month in a nice hotel on the beach is the way to go.

 

[osiris3mc]

Originally posted by: Red Dawn
DOH! misread the question!

Hah! I read your initial response and was like WTF?!?

 

[quakefiend420]

absolutly...that way i can live my last days exactly like that...my last days

 

[FoBoT]

right now, at this point in my life, i would say no
with young children, it woulnd't really help to know

later when i am older/my children are grown, then i would say yes

 

[Koing]

Of course.

Koing

 

[eakers]

ofcourse! i would quit my job and go crazy for a month.

 

[BigJ]

You better believe it.

I'd probably drop out of college and do a lot of outdoor activites. Hiking, rock climbing, laying out in the countryside. I'd try to be as peaceful, relaxed, and happy in my final days.

 

[psteng19]

Well, most people who are terminally ill don't have the ability to enjoy the last days of their lives.
So it's not as easy as many of you make it sound.

 

[dman]

Originally posted by: psteng19
Well, most people who are terminally ill don't have the ability to enjoy the last days of their lives.
So it's not as easy as many of you make it sound.

Yep. Would be pretty odd to not know something is wrong and your time is soon at that point. Still, I'd want to know.

 

[clamum]

No

 

[crontab]

Ofcourse. Time for a vacation. Plus it gives me time to prepare myself and my funds for my wife and family. And to stop working 70 hours a week.

 

[DaveSimmons]

Originally posted by: psteng19
Well, most people who are terminally ill don't have the ability to enjoy the last days of their lives.
So it's not as easy as many of you make it sound.

I'd want to know just to have an informed opinion on my treatment, for example if the doctors were proposing treatment that would make no real difference or would extend my life for a month but at the cost of spending most of the time at the hospital.

Doctors are often wrong about "terminal" illnesses though, a co-worker at my old job was given 6 months to live (bad cancer) about 4 years ago and is doing pretty well today.

 

[StageLeft]

Yes!

 

[DannyBoy]

yup

 

[Wallydraigle]

Yeah, I'd want to know. I'd want to know the dateof my death no matter when it was. It would be very liberating.

 

[Zenmervolt]

Originally posted by: eakers
ofcourse! i would quit my job and go crazy for a month.

Bingo. Well, maybe not go crazy, but there are a number of things I would need to do and people I would need to see and talk with if I knew I would not be around in a month. Things that I'm waiting for the opportune moment for right now that I'd suddenly have to stop waiting for and just do.

ZV

 

[torpid]

Anyone who has seen the film Ikiru would know that Yes is the correct answer.

 

[AdamSnow]

Absolutely...

 

[ohtwell]

Yes! There are many things I would want to do before it happened.


: ) Amanda