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mrs and mr brown
15-Feb-09, 17:34
hello after reading the shocking news about jade goody, and life is very short. so what would u love it do in the time you all have left
{ sorry if it sound morbid}
mines would be
*more children
*buying our first home
*getting a really good job.
i have lots more but ill keep the list short.
mmmmm also on more of an adventure side i would love to go sky diving!!
whats everyone else, and when the time came to full fill all the dreams and wishes would u do it????....
hello after reading the shocking news about jade goody, and life is very short. so what would u love it do in the time you all have left
{ sorry if it sound morbid}
mines would be
*more children
*buying our first home
*getting a really good job.
i have lots more but ill keep the list short.
mmmmm also on more of an adventure side i would love to go sky diving!!
whats everyone else, and when the time came to full fill all the dreams and wishes would u do it????....
If you only have a short time to live I do not understand why you would want to buy a House for. If you had enough money to buy a house and you only had 3 months to live surely you would want to spend this money on having some fun in your remaining time.
Buying a house is a long term investment and since you would not have this length of time, why buy a house. Just seems a bit pointless to me.
Anyway what I would do if I only had a short time to live is to go and see the Bears at Kodiak Island, Alaska.
DeHaviLand
15-Feb-09, 18:16
Well, when it comes down to it, there are only 2 parts of Scotland that I have'nt yet visited. So, Orkney and Shetland for me when the bad news comes :(
One of my 101 things is to go on a balloon ride. I've booked it twice in this country only to turn up and be told it's cancelled due to weather- fog!. This year however I did it in Eygypt. Next on my list is to be a farmer:eek:
Valerie Campbell
15-Feb-09, 20:42
Get my novel published, but it would take too long! No, I'd go out and buy a bottle of champagne, fresh strawberries and cream to begin with. Then I'd see about driving fast round a track, visit Luskentyre - I got my marriage proposal there on the deserted beach at sunset - and go skinny dipping cos I've never done it before, then tell my kids that life's a fabulous, roller coaster of a journey. Not highly inspiring I know, but there you go.
hello after reading the shocking news about jade goody, and life is very short. so what would u love it do in the time you all have left
{ sorry if it sound morbid}
mines would be
*more children
I wouldn't have more children that is definite, it would break my heart knowing the ones I already have would have to grow up without me and me without them.
I wouldn't have more children that is definite, it would break my heart knowing the ones I already have would have to grow up without me and me without them.
i was just about to say that... i would never have more kids if i was terminally, couldnt put them thru that...
i would take my OH and daughter do disney land for a month! lol:lol:
windswept
15-Feb-09, 21:15
Visit Tibet
hire a campervan and tour the west coast
walk the west highland way
Get decent double glazing
elamik@tiscali.co.uk
15-Feb-09, 21:27
get every available credit card i could lay my hands on, max them up and SPEND SPEND SPEND:D
Make a mint by selling every last detail of life and illness to a newspaper.
Oh, no, wait a minute that won't work........I've never been on Big Brother.
Make a mint by selling every last detail of life and illness to a newspaper.
Oh, no, wait a minute that won't work........I've never been on Big Brother.
what a silly comment !:confused
I'd like to do a road trip from California to Nevada, traveling light, staying in all the fancy hotels, taking some photos and having a great time in a world apart from our own.
i dont know, i would take hubby and kids and go back home for a while.. be with my family and let them know how much i love them. and that no matter how far apart we are, that in our hearts we will always be together.
have just found out today that my cousin, who is more like my sister has been diagnosed with a malignant melanoma. she is off to Duke tomorrow to see a specialist and to try and find out more.
in the last two years i have lost an uncle to lung cancer and an aunt (just this past christmas) to breast cancer.
and the end of the road, they were relived to let go, and both were surrounded by loved ones and knew how much they were loved and would be remembered.
my list of things to do...
i would take thousands of pictures of myself with the kids and don.
fill up tape after tape with video.
spend every waking moment with my husband and children, as tomorrow may never come.
hold them, kiss them, love them
give them the memories that will have to last them a lifetime.
i would write so many letters to the kids.
my hopes and dream for them.
how much they have brought to my life.
how proud i am of them,
and at the end of the day how very very sorry i am that i had to leave them
and say good-bye.
i could care less about seeing the world, or having something nice...
just seeing the smile on my sons faces..
laying my head in my mothers lap one last time.
holding my husbands hand as we lay in bed talking about a future that would never be. #
these are the things i would do, if i knew i only had a few months left.
Make a mint by selling every last detail of life and illness to a newspaper.
Oh, no, wait a minute that won't work........I've never been on Big Brother.
:roll: Shes doing it to raise money for her kids future. Thats just plain nasty!!
ShelleyCowie
15-Feb-09, 22:36
:roll: Shes doing it to raise money for her kids future. Thats just plain nasty!!
I concur!
(thats my word for today - concur)
But still there was no need for such a nasty comment was there! Some people.... :roll:
I'd like to do a naked parachute jump. :D
Please concur with this Shelley. [lol]
I would create memory boxes for the kids
I was fortunate that I did not have terminal cancer, but I was told, before the operation, that if the cancer had spread I would have 2/4 years left. Believe me, you are so numb that you do not think what you would love to do. Automatic pilot takes over, and you go from day to day and try to get on with life as best as you can. As I said, I survived and am thankful, that I can enjoy my family.
ShelleyCowie
15-Feb-09, 23:32
I'd like to do a naked parachute jump. :D
Please concur with this Shelley. [lol]
I concur Jox...i concur! ;)
I would spend my time doing what i enjoy most ..with the oh and kids, which if they were lucky would include me plucking up the courage to go on a plane and go abroad!!!:confused
I concur!
(thats my word for today - concur)
But still there was no need for such a nasty comment was there! Some people.... :roll:
Ha ha have you been watching the film 'Catch Me If You Can' ???!! :lol:
(just in case you haven't, Leonardo DiCaprio likes to use that word when he's pretending to be doctor and doesn't know what to do with a boy whose leg is covered in blood!):eek:
ShelleyCowie
15-Feb-09, 23:43
Ha ha have you been watching the film 'Catch Me If You Can' ???!! :lol:
(just in case you haven't, Leonardo DiCaprio likes to use that word when he's pretending to be doctor and doesn't know what to do with a boy whose leg is covered in blood!):eek:
Love that film, after that he goes and spews! ;) Leonardo Yum!
I concur Jox...i concur! ;)
Thank you, thank you, thank you. You've made an old(ish) man very happy. :D
butterfly
15-Feb-09, 23:44
i would spend all the time i had left with the people that matter to me and be thankful for a family that loved me too.
ShelleyCowie
15-Feb-09, 23:47
Thank you, thank you, thank you. You've made an old(ish) man very happy. :D
Lol glad i could help!
Uh oh Jox we seem to be taking this off topic. Better take this over to the "general for a general" thread! ;)
I've always wanted to go on a horse riding holiday abroad, somewhere warm, so I would do that with my mum and sister. Also I'd take our kids to Disneyland and go swimming with dolphins with my eldest daughter and riding on elephants with my youngest - those are their two ambitions at the moment, so I'd love to be there to see them do it!! ;) And maybe go on a second honeymoon - back to Ibiza where we had our first!:cool:
[quote=Scunner;503529]I was fortunate that I did not have terminal cancer, but I was told, before the operation, that if the cancer had spread I would have 2/4 years left. Believe me, you are so numb that you do not think what you would love to do. Automatic pilot takes over, and you go from day to day and try to get on with life as best as you can. As I said, I survived and am thankful, that I can enjoy my family.
Glad to hear that you are now well Scunner.
For me the idea of having such a list has never crossed my mind. None of us can say for certain what we would do or how we would react because thankfully we have never been in that situation. Hopefully the thing everyone should be given is the love and support of their family and friends. Both free but priceless.
alanabain
16-Feb-09, 00:21
Ha ha have you been watching the film 'Catch Me If You Can' ???!! :lol:
(just in case you haven't, Leonardo DiCaprio likes to use that word when he's pretending to be doctor and doesn't know what to do with a boy whose leg is covered in blood!):eek:
I just asked her that on MSN before i read your post LOL
Spooky :eek:
She wont stop saying it
Kevin Milkins
16-Feb-09, 00:27
When I was in my youth and aspired to be a top rugby player I had a role model that was a prolific player that was a sports teacher and everything in world going for him and I hung off his every word.
When I eventually got to play regular first team rugby along side this hero of mine it was like a dream come true and have a great deal to be thankful for having a enjoyable period of sport in my youth and mostly attributed to the knowledge and wisdom of my older hero (about 10 years older).
After my friend retired from competitive rugby at 39 he took to referring and we were at a club dinner one night and he was showing some discomfort from sitting too long and told me he was waiting for an operation on his hip. To cut a long story short, he went for the operation and they found an advanced stage of cancer and they sowed him up and told him the worse.
After a short period of treatment that was futile I went to visit him the day before he died and he told me about all the things that he had planned for the future when he retired and was not going to get a chance to do them. His advice to me was if there is something you want to do in your life make it happen while you are able to.
When my kids left home we sold our house and downsized so we could buy a camper van and we done France, Spain, and Portugal on a four month trip and when we got back said what do we do next and having not done Scotland that’s why we are here now.
I think it’s easy to say “one day we will do this, that or the other.
My advice would be if you have something that you would like to do, get it done
mrs and mr brown
16-Feb-09, 00:55
sorry folks but theres been a miss print here, i didnt mean if you were told that you were gunna die{ i hate that word} i ment that while you able to do them, how do u see your future self??. maybe i didnt word it right. like the list 10 things to do before your 30 or something like that!!!!x:confused
sorry folks but theres been a miss print here, i didnt mean if you were told that you were gunna die{ i hate that word} i ment that while you able to do them, how do u see your future self??. maybe i didnt word it right. like the list 10 things to do before your 30 or something like that!!!!x:confused
Sorry ? explain
sorry folks but theres been a miss print here, i didnt mean if you were told that you were gunna die{ i hate that word} i ment that while you able to do them, how do u see your future self??. maybe i didnt word it right. like the list 10 things to do before your 30 or something like that!!!!x:confused
That's okay. I still want to do a naked parachute jump! :D
ShelleyCowie
16-Feb-09, 01:02
That's okay. I still want to do a naked parachute jump! :D
I concur! ;)
That's okay. I still want to do a naked parachute jump! :D
God the mind boggles watch out England for the landing !!! [lol]
Kevin Milkins
16-Feb-09, 01:22
Ok, now that you have moved the goal posts we will start again on a more cheerful note.lol:lol:
1 Make sure that all things that I want to do before being 30 is done before reaching 52.:roll:
2 Have a sporting lifestyle before my health goes to rats.
3 Enjoy all the things that only a young person could achieve
4 Be nice to people over thirty, as it will be my time soon
5 Anything that I feel I need to learn, get it done now, as it gets harder when you are older.
6 Travel and see the world when you are young as when you get older it can be a chore
7 If you want to build your own house then make a start while you still have the energy.
8 If you want to be famous for something IE swim the channel, best crack on.
9 If a family is important to you then get that one under your belt as age gap can be trying.
10 If someone mentions a pension scheme to you, punch him or her on the nose...
I would do what dadie said and create a memory box but otherwise I would live as I am. Getting lots of lambs and having a family that I love what more could I ask for:). Oops a new pair of Wellies mines has two holes and them and my new ones have not arrived:lol:
Lovely post Brandy, my answer was going to be give up work and spend all my remaining time with my family, but you just put it so eloquently.
When "himself" was told he had 2 months left, after it had sunk in, he said he would give me lots of memories. This he certainly did. We were here there and everywher e in the car and taking photoes all the time.I had tried to get one of those all in campers to drive about but couldnt get one. His lovely family asked where he would like to go most of all and he said Dublin. It was lovely that he went there with his brothers and sisters for a few days and had a great time. He wanted to go on the "Hamavoe" to Orkney and did it twice. He wanted to see the new Bettyhill road, go to the john Lennon place in sutherland, and all this he did. I would drive him to his mums as much as we could. He held new baby nephews and nieces, We were going to Amsterdam and I sent off for his passport but he was then too ill to travel and was very dissapointed. But, we did what he wanted, we laughed, cried, travelled, had good family times,did a lot of talking, said our goodbyes, and so so many photoes taken. He even danced at a friends wedding dance.I'm sure all this enabled him to live 9 months and not two.
He died as he wanted, at home, with his dog and family beside him, with his favourite songs played in the background. As he said, he left me so many happy memories. I get great comfort looking at all the photoes of our last weeks together, and knowing that he achieved most of the things he wanted to in the time he had left.
Live for today and not tomorrow as tomorrow may never come.
if I was told I only had a certain amount of time left...
I would gather my children together & ask them all to write a list of the things they have always wanted to do, then I would try & fulfil all their wishes & would make as many of their dreams come true as possible, then when they looked back in later years they would remember them & say 'mum was there with me for it all!'
I would do the same with my partner & family but the kids would come first. I wouldnt bother trying to fulfil any of my own dreams would seem a waste of time, its not like I'd remember them once id gone!!
I would laugh, dance, sing, kiss lots of people I love, Take long lunches and lazy dinners, see people i havent seen in a long time. I would have a big party and I would surround myself with my darling husband and my beautiful children and I would be so thankful that i had them all. No doubt there would be some practical things too and plenty of crying as well but I would like to end my days quietly and happily knowing that those i love truly know they were loved by me with all my heart.
That's okay. I still want to do a naked parachute jump! :D
Careful when your pulling the ripcord Jox ;)
hello after reading the shocking news about jade goody, and life is very short. so what would u love it do in the time you all have left
{ sorry if it sound morbid}
mines would be
*more children
*buying our first home
*getting a really good job.
i have lots more but ill keep the list short.
mmmmm also on more of an adventure side i would love to go sky diving!!
whats everyone else, and when the time came to full fill all the dreams and wishes would u do it????....
well i certainly wouldnt have more children, but i would enjoy every moment with the 4 i already have, also spend loads of time with my other half, my mum and dad and my 2 siters and nephews.
ShelleyCowie
16-Feb-09, 18:23
Careful when your pulling the ripcord Jox ;)
I thought ripcords were long though! [lol]
That's okay. I still want to do a naked parachute jump! :D
I concur! ;)
I second that motion!! That sounds like hilarious fun. I've always wanted to do a parachute jump as well. :lol:
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