Let's Say You're 5 Minutes Away From Dying

What are you worried about? What big issues suddenly mean nothing to you? What issues mean the world to you? Lets not just say "family". What have you done that makes you happy to leave for the next generation?

For me...business means nothing. I wish I would have been a better example for my kids. I'm not without faults kind of related to my lifestyle. At the same time, I kind of hope that my kids adopt my life philosophy....minus the drugs, etc of my youth.

 

Oh, how about my final destination?


Hotwater

 

being prevented from being asleep or in a state of meditation, by well meaning idiots wanting to be "with" me, at the time.

sorry, but i very much prefer to die in the dignity of privacy.

 

Absolutely nothing at this stage. A feeling of relief from the constant anxiety of life! I could worry about family members, but a lot of them either don't reciprocate, or I wasn't responsible for the situations they were placed in, so why feel guilty or worrisome?

 

I doubt anyone can really say. You'd only get the perspective if you were actually 5 mins from death.

 

does having flatlined count? at my age and in my condition of my heart, ANY five minuets, could be five minuets from my death. even this one.
bill blakie has a point though. i'd rather not be five minuets away from dying. sooner or latter i will be. and there may actually be more important things to me.
but i'd still rather not be. at least not, until i actually am.

but WHEN i actually am, there is nothing that would concern me more, then wanting to be utterly and completely alone, in those last few moments.

if there is one thing, i want to have, in a living will, it is that.

 

I guess I'm looking at it from my own perspective - I have a respiratory condition which is probably what will eventually finish me off, and I'd probably be ill for sometime prior to actual death. So what I mean is that unless some other things kills me, I'll probably have some idea when the time comes.

But I see what you're saying. With heart conditions you might not get any notice that death is imminent.

 

This is my conclusion too. I am not certain at all what I will be concerned with at that point. But I think (maybe just hoping) I am concerned with nothing except that I will be seperated from the people (and world) I like. But I also may hope they can carry on without me I feel kind of pretentious telling I think I will not be concerned/have no other thing to be concerned about then, but this is how I feel now when I think about it. Most sure is I do not know what kind of perspective I will have in those last 5 minutes. And I will not bother with it for a long time

 

not sure if I would feel at peace or if I would feel sad for my loved ones left behind because they have to deal with my death. Dying is felt most by the living.

 

As I get older I find that I spend a certain amount of time (not a lot of time) reviewing my life. I know where I have regrets etc, and I feel I've come to terms with most of that.
Looking at it from the perspective of now, I think I'll probably feel some sadness for those I leave behind, and also I will be wondering about the question 'is this really the end?'

But as said, I don't think we can really know until it comes. Quite possibly one could be too drugged to realize what's happening.

 

Maybe I would think more like 'let's bring it on' then wondering. I feel (at this point) I have nothing to fear after death, wether there is something or not. So I will either fade out in eternal peace or maybe join the creating force of the universe, or get another chance on this crazy marble in space. Who knows, but it's all good. I don't see if there would be such thing as a hell or other form of eternal damnation (to me extremely unlikely) why I would go there This may also sound pretentious to some. Well suck it people :-D

 

How far is five minutes?

 

From here? What kind of question is that.

 

Interestingly as a thought experiment I had a dream last night where I went off a high bridge as a passenger in a car so during the descent I had time to contemplate this issue as I had the sensation of falling and faced the certainty of a paradigm shifting event. I found myself open minded to the experience, ready for whatever the end of the fall would bring without doubt or trepidation, a sense of trust in process. The dream faded before actual impact.

 

Referring to the away part of the proposition in, say you are five minutes away from...

 

We'll all be there at some point in our lives, so let's promise to log in to hipforums during our last few minutes and update this thread.

 

If the five minutes was right now I'd go for a walk. Within five minutes of this sofa I can be partway up a small mountain with a view of the sea

 

Brings up the specter of how fast you are travelling.

 

I'd rank starting to smoke pot as one of the smartest things I ever did, havent been able to for the last 5 years because of work, but especially under 23 yrs old, I was just too hyper and certainly just that more likely to have done more stupid stuff certain nights if not stoned, plus it does give you a different world view

 

I'd think I'd carry on - regardless - and if I'm wrong, .... I'll never know