What if
on your deathbed you lie there, waiting to die, thinking about all the effort that you made to keep yourself in shape, to eat right, to exercise properly, to avoid things that were bad for you, mind and body.
And what if in the next bed in the ward, there was a guy, also on his deathbed. Around him are friends and lovers, talking, arguing, laughing about all the things he’d done, all the bad decisions, all the escapades.
Can there be anything more miserable than to have lived a spotless life? I want to die fast and unknowing, or being gored by a buff or a tusker; but if I must die slow, let me be surrounded by those who remember me of my life, and the facts of having said “yes, please” to adventure and experience.
There are those who would say, about living this sort of life, “When you kiss X, you kiss everyone they ever kissed”
Bring it. I’d rather have kissed more people than I thought than less.
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I could have missed the pain;
But I’d have had to miss The Dance.
http://www.youtube.com/watch_popup?v=EYd-lwq3eKU#t=18s
So here’s hoping you all Dance:
http://www.youtube.com/watch_popup?v=RV-Z1YwaOiw
As for me, I’m puttin’ on my Boogie Shoes:
http://www.youtube.com/watch_popup?v=j1AzQQrZfmc#t=34s
“I want to die peacefully in my sleep, like my Grandfather… not screaming in terror, like his passengers.”
Eat right, exercise, die anyway. Or as I’ve told my doctor, I’ll feel awful silly someday lying in a hospital bed dying of nothing.
When I go, I want them to gather, build a big fire, sing, dance, fire all my guns and drink all my whiskey. But if just two will pray forgiveness for what I could have done but did not do. Perhaps God will have mercy on my soul
Well, the only thing left for me to say is a hearty, heartfelt, “A M E N!!” to all the above…
I want to die getting flipped out of my own 60 foot yacht while guzzling my own 30 year old bourbon as we hit a rogue wave caused by the onset of Hurricane Mitt that’s headed northeast towards Lat 30N, and the eastcoast of America.
“I’ll feel awful silly someday lying in a hospital bed dying of nothing.” Heh, you just gave me a new life goal, don’t die from nothin’.
I guess I might rather die for something that from something.
It’s said that before they went over the top, someone said “What? You think you’re going to live forever?”
Borepatch, think the following will answer your question.
“Come on, you sons of bitches! Do you want to live forever?”
GySgt. DANIEL DALY, USMC
Nobody gets out of this alive. May as well enjoy the trip.
Life is a sexually transmitted terminal disease. Might as well enjoy the ride!
This is attributed to Hunter S Thompson, though I’ve seen others cited as well:
“Life is not a journey to the grave with the intention of arriving safely in a pretty and well-preserved body.
But rather, to skid in broadside, thoroughly used up,totally worn out, and loudly proclaiming …. WOW what a ride.â€
Better to be the one hootin’ “Hey y’all, hold my beer and watch this!” than the one left holding the beer.