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Take another breath.....

Good one Rane! Me too. Kind of like the answer to: "What would you do 
if you had three wishes?". My third wish would always be for three more 
wishes! But I know what you are asking. I am not sure. If threatened 
with death, I am sure I would want to live longer, but I would want to 
die at such a time that I would not look back on my life with regret 
for having not taken advantage of any opportunities that were given me. 
But I am not sure what in particular that would be. 

Go to England/Wales/Scotland. Definitely.

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Re #2: I don't think any human can not have had some opportunity that
they wished they had taken, unless they are very young. You are often
faced with choosing between opportunities, so half of those are always
lost. 

But taking the question the way it was meant, I have some research
projects I would like to finish and publish in my lifetime, although
circumstances indicate they will not all get completed. 

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#0> Live another 100 years.
Hey, that's ONE thing!

Become immortal.

So, you'd like to be a struldbrug?

I haven't read the original source of that term, I just know it from Larry
Niven's novels.  Where is ti originally from?

(Um, "ti" should be "it".)

If i could have one last wish before i died i would want it to be that i could
be surrounded by all my friends and family so i wouldn't die alone

        I'm with Joe on this one.

        Oh, and Struldbrugs are from Gulliver's travels (check out:
http://www.shu.ac.uk/emls/iemls/resour/mirrors/rbear/swift/gulliver3.html
chapter X).  It's traditional Swift, and a very dark and gloomy interpretation
of immortality.

I don't know what my last wish would be but if it's like
others I've watched die it would be for the pain to stop.

What a downer.

Sorry.

There are just too many possibilities, and too many things I've left
un-done, to have a single answer to this question.  (I'm going to leave
most things un-done in this life, the only thing I want is to set myself
up so that I do the right things and have a pleasant trip.)

I think my wish is to experience six or so more decades of life.  I've never
been very good at predicting what life would throw at me, but it continues
to be interesting.

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I wish to free my mind and body from the bottlencks which impede the flow 
of my creativity, especially in writing.

Ooh.  I'm with Eric.  Well put.

To remain healthy and fit until I am 144 years of age.  I should be able to
do it all by then.

In 144 years? You must not have much of an imagination!

I don't want to be 144 years old. That would be gross.

I don't want to plan to "finish everything" before I die. If I do
that, then I will be ready to die. I want to keep working on new
ideas and things for as long as I am able.

You might have a point there, Rane. 

I think Rane had a good point.

I want to be able to leave the people I leave in good shape to take 
care of themselves, without debt or other burden from me.

i want to travel. a lot. almost everywhere.

I just want to make sure that I'm awake and lucid when I die.  It's the last
great mystery; damned if I'll sleep through it.  

One thing I would want to do before I die is become at peace with the 
idea of dying.

#29> What if the solution to the mystery is even more mysterious than the
question?

We're talking about death here, not a bus tour of Paris.  Awake and 
lucid means your brain is fully functioning.  Nobody dies with a fully 
functioning brain.  Death is about your awareness collapsing.  You 
can't be fully aware of it.

Unless you think you have some kind of a soul thing that will let your 
mind continue to function when your brain drops out from under it.  
I've been spending a lot of time with people who have brain damage, and 
it doesn't seem to me that the mind shows much ability to keep 
functioning when the brain isn't.  But maybe the religous folk are 
right and sometime during death your mind will cut connections with 
your brain and float off into the ether, magically functioning without 
a body.  Well, if that happens, you won't be experiencing death anymore 
will you?  In that case only your body would be dieing, and your brain 
would be off experiencing something else.  Afterlife I guess.

Death is not an experience.  It is the end of experience.

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The brain's last ditch effort to get the other systems of the body to
reactivate and continue functioning.

There's a great novel on the subject called "Passage" by Connie Willis.

(Has Rane cracked Janc's account? ;} )

Nope.  I have some limited belief in God, but very little in any after 
life, unless you count worms taking bits of you home to feed to their 
babies.  And I've been spending a lot of time around dieing people 
lately.

Minds running on failing brains "experience" all sorts of stuff if 
death isn't instantaneous.  Lots of brain cells kicking and screaming.  
But that's not death, just the last bit of life, and you sure aren't a 
lucid observer of it.

It was my first thought when I read #0 twelve days ago and I tried to think
of something better, but I failed.  It is as true as anything that I can know
about myself:  Although divorced for years, I would tell my ex-wife that I
loved her more than she ever knew.  It was almost twenty years ago that I got
the ol' heave-ho and I'm loath annoy her with the fact that I'm still hung-up.

<fitz picks at his scabs, but is  relieved that he didn't have to buy a round
in order to unload out of the bummer item>

Wow.

re 36, 32:  That may be, but I still want to experience it, insofar as that's
possible.  

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