Don't drain your bank account and head to a Nevada brothel
Don't kill your boss
Don't quit your job
Don't deprive yourself of sleep because this might be the end
Don't slobber all over your loved ones with depressing goodbyes - day after day after day - they will soon tire of it and it will eventually lead to an intervention

Jim Morrison wrote "Woke up this morning and got myself a beer. The futures uncertain and the end is always near."
Makes for a great Rock and Roll song lyric but in reality if he had a few less morning beers he may not have become a raging alcoholic

If you knew you only had one day to live you would be confused and torn on what to do to make the most of time you had left
it would be quite depressing and not at all liberating

SWBTATTReg

(22,100 posts)

14. You go overboard in cherry picking in what you claim people would do...

Reply to lame54 (Reply #13)

Mon Jul 2, 2018, 01:59 PM

Jul 2018

if faced with the last day of their lives. I for one wouldn't do a single thing that you listed (except maybe the job (quitting, depends on the kind of job).

lame54

(35,281 posts)

15. so you would quit your job...

Reply to SWBTATTReg (Reply #14)

Mon Jul 2, 2018, 02:06 PM

Jul 2018

and not say goodbye to your loved ones?

I think knowing you are going to die today would be a horrible, confusing, frightening experience

I don't want to live my day to day life like that

I know it's supposed to be uplifting - but it's short on rational thought

True Dough

(17,301 posts)

4. If today turns out to be that day

Reply to Floyd R. Turbo (Original post)

Mon Jul 2, 2018, 09:31 AM

Jul 2018

then I'm coming back to haunt you for putting a curse on me with this thread, Floyd!

Floyd R. Turbo

(26,546 posts)

10. Not to worry. It won't be!

Reply to True Dough (Reply #4)

Mon Jul 2, 2018, 12:38 PM

Jul 2018

Girard442

(6,067 posts)

5. Magician James Randi used to write every day on a crisp new business card...

Reply to Floyd R. Turbo (Original post)

Mon Jul 2, 2018, 09:31 AM

Jul 2018

..."I know that today is the day I am going to die."

His reasoning was that if he died in some incredible freak accident, like say, being trampled by an aardvark escaping the zoo, people would be astonished that he could have predicted that. He gave it up after many years because he hadn't died and he was bored with the whole thing.