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'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.

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.

Oh fuck yeah. Id hop on that website showing all dots for kiddie diddlers, and start reducing the number of dots one by one.

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 already know it will soon be over, that's one surety in life.

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?

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?

If I knew there was nothing after next week, I'd keep doing what I do, but harder.

There is no way to know whether changing the way you live would still kill on that death date. You wouldn't know whether because of the changes you make, you die on that day. Also you wouldn't know if not making a change kills you earlier.

Would you spend your remaining time differently than you do now?

If so, why aren’t you already doing it?

Probably not as I am already stuck.

I am not aware of what I would do differently, where I would go, how I would reliably get there, and I don't have much money. Also I don't really have much contact with anyone.

And y'know, things aren't looking great with the news but that's all I'll say.

It's a question I've thought about a lot. Not only to me but the limited time I have left with my parents.

YOLO'ing only works for those without responsibilities to others or foresight. If you actually knew your life was ending, that certainly changes priorities. Life becomes a sprint instead of a marathon.

To those who say without knowing the future, "Live every day as if it were your last," I like to tack on, "... But there's a fair chance you may actually live for another year or more!" Stay grateful; seize the day, sure, but you still need to tread water.

I'd probably carry on life as normal, but start peppering my conversations with things like "I'm finally looking forward to spending time with my family," and "I just nailed a huge promotion," and "I finally just had an offer accepted on a house," and "I just beat cancer, so we're finally going to get married!"

If I see my death coming and there's nothing I can do about it, I want it to seem like the most unfortunate, tragically timed event possible.

I'd put more effort into recording family history. Why aren't I doing so now? Because it's a lot of work and I don't have anyone to help me with it. It includes scanning photos, scanning negatives, and labeling and organizing all the pictures; converting reel-to-reel takes, mini-cassettes and audio cassettes to digital, and labeling those; converting VHS to DVD and labeling those; finding and transcribing family recipes and organizing them into an annotated cookbook; transcribing old letters from the early to late 1900's in various handwriting styles, and every medium from faded pencil to blotted fountain pen to hurriedly scrawled ballpoint, in everything from tissue-thin airmail paper to fragile student notepaper to cat-pee'd-upon cards; and writing a short biography of the various people who are pictured, recorded, written, etc, in all the various media.

Yes

I would try, but I doubt I'd have success.