Through the gates of Death, was my first step, in getting into the feelings and emotions of the readers. Now, I will take you in a different Journey. In the Health Care Business, We, as the Providers, some time have to give the news, that the end is near; I want you to hear my voice, telling you, that you got two month to live, due to a terminal Cancer. Now, What are you going to do? How are you going to cope with knowing, that 61 days later, you will face to face with Death. Please, explain your feelings and emotion, and just let your heart, your mind and your soul speak for once.
i would die the way that i lived, stressing to the ones with which love is mutual that i'll see them again soon, that they'll only ever need to think of me and i'll be there with them, that sort of thing.
Then i'd go skydiving, bungee jumping, ignore street signs, and start a cult just for funzies.
If i heard i had only two months to live ,i would be gutted , my mind would immediately think of my son , no one else really matters . I'd move heaven and earth to make sure he was provided for , and that he knew i was content in moving on . I'd feel a gut wrenching sadness and my heart would break , but keeping a cool facade over inner turmoil is something I'm well practiced at . That would be very important to me to keep my emotions under wrap , i wouldn,t want to afflict my weaknesses upon others .
Over the 61 days I'd like to be able to find a serene mind space , where i was at peace with my life , and at peace with the path i was about to embark on . I'd gladly fall into deaths embrace when the time came . Part of me absolutely can't wait to find out what happens , i think of it as being where life really starts . One of the things I'm most passionate about in life is leaving my body ( astral projection ), I've got a million ideas of the things I'm going to get up to once i finally shed this meat sack that's encasing my spirit . I'd probably feel , thank f#@k that's over , now for the real work .
I would not do anything different than what I am doing now. Living life to its fullest with every breath, and then some. Most people aren't given information about their time of expiration. For those who are it would be both a blessing and a curse. Perhaps the only thing I might do different is gain a ton of weight eating all the sweets I could,lol
well im a firm believer of living life to your fullest. so i would not accept cancer if it was offered to me. another thing is that if this was a serious thing, but i was still able to be mobile by myself and all, i would continue to live life like i had. i live a full life now as it is and i would not change anything. the only thing i would maybe consider changing is how im gonna tell my closest people that im not gonna b here anymore anytime soon.
First reaction....would be one of a sickening numbness, surreal in itself .....pure utter hopelessness.
I would entertain options for possible treatment. Should that not be an option, I would not put my family through the emotional and financial burden of prolonging the inevitable. Quality of life would be a concern for me as well. At no point would I wish to go on living if it is compromised to the point of having others take care of me. Especially since I am VERY independent!
As time passes, of course fear and anger would surface of all the things I am not going to be able to do....and try to do as much as possible ...living life as I already do...to the fullest. Perhaps for for a time even pretend it is not happening.
Thoughts of terminating my self will enter my my mind....should I not go through with it...........
.......... as my time would near....I would assume my health would deteriorate to the point that my fight for life would soon turn to an embrace of death , with any luck by now, I would hope to be sedated and not writhing in pain . Depending on my medical status, I am not sure if I would even be coherent enough towards the end to have any more thoughts on this.
I sat some time ago facing the possibility of a very deadly illness. For two weeks I waited unknowing and it was a roller coaster of emotions. In the end, there was nothing wrong so perhaps my memories are now clouded with that knowledge. I did at one point, come to a place of peace. If that was my fate, I was going to accept it and live out the time I had left. Again... in retrospect knowing I was fine shapes my thoughts... but I fought, I raged, I researched to death and came to peace...
I would go down violently taking down every one that crossed me in life ,two months Ha ,I'll die myway
I would embrace it. Being around death a lot in the past from countless people in my family as well as close friends dying it would not phase me much.
I'd first tell my family, friends everyone and that i don't want to be treated any differently. i'd then write my will leaving my possessions to those who deserve it or whatever. I'd cherish those I still have and make sure everyone else is take care of.
Then comes not caring about life anymore. I'd do things i never really had time to do or feared to do. In essence, i'd go all out. I wouldn't show my feelings unless it is to those that i fully trust.
Near the end i'd take it as it comes. If i need morphine i'll take it if not i wont accept it. i'd also go out with a bang before being confined to a bed until my death.
I'd live the way I am doing Now. In the Now.
I'm 51 and, at 36 knew me: how many can say that?
I then learnt, bit by bit, to be the confident me, I had been at 17, when I need.
So if I had months to live, I'd live them as I am Now.
Some members asked me as why I asked the question about approaching the gate of death. As you know, we are always approaching the gate, because we don't know the day that the gate will be in front of us. I see many people, coming through the ER, who 30 minutes earliest were just OK, and then, everything change in one second. You must be always prepare to face the gate, because our life is rented, not owned.
if i was reaching my end, i would die as i live but i'll take it to the extreme and go on a 24/7 murder spree...go out with a bang and brings those around down with me. not all deaths have to be on a bed with a machine beeping away! and i would never let my death be like that, i'll die on my terms and on my feet doing what i like best. chaos.
.. was a care worker for eleven years: still work with the homeless, thank F*CK more people don't have your attitude.
Agreed ! Most are not worth the air they breath anyway that have that way of thinking anyway.
I have lung cancer an early stage of it. I first found out this year Thanksgiving eve, I had to quit smoking When the dr told me I was numb , Pringely, scared and then the next few nights after Thanks Giving I cryed for two to three hours. I could not stop. I was on the phone with a friend.
I a m going to be a grand ma soon my youngest is pregnent and I have never been so happy. The dr is going to most likely tell me what they have to do and see how bad it is first.
Yes Cancer is scary but there is life after death
I am doing all I can now to full fill what I want done before they tell me a due date to meet my death maker.
I did get my children back home and never been so happy also had my book publihed about vampire rave it is called vampires belong in the book section on here
You can buy it amazon boarders, and barns and noble on line.
i really have no idea how id react. i know how id like to react tho.
id want to keep trying to fight, and live every single day as if it were my last milking every bit of life out that i could.
~W~
.. just can't get my head round the idea of harming others, as you Live to the best, furing those last days... just couldn't do that.
some might say that i might want to go out in my sleep like my grandfather....
not screaming in terror like his passengers.
but i dont really LOL
~W~
I have been around death so much lately with both my parents dying in the last four years, my husband, best friend's 21 year old son, her Father and others. It is a way of life just as birth and breathing. Unfortunately there is little information about it except anecdotal.
I don't know what I would think. The proclamations of doctors are best guess from experience. My husband was told about seven years ago he would die before the year was over and he lived until November of this year. We weren't together because I think he wanted to experience certain things. He went back to Ireland for one, for a time. He didn't seem scared, more resigned. We are born heading to death's door so I guess all anyone can do is live the life we are given to the fullest of our ability and make sure we don't leave behind a mess for our families to sweep up.
Hospice is legalized euthanasia in the U.S. A blessing some say, but in my mother's case, not sure the blessing was hers or ours.
Personally, if I had my wits about me and wasn't in pain, I'd settle my affairs and make sure the people I love knew it.
Then, I'd try to get hospice and some of that morphine they dole out.