What would you do if you knew you only had one day left to live?

[The Spawn]

In Ikigami: The Ultimate Limit, a new seinen manga series by Motoro Mase from VIZ Media, two twenty-somethings are forced to answer this question when they receive an ikigami or death notice from the Japanese government. They say you can only truly appreciate life when you've come close to death. The fictional Japanese government featured in Ikigami takes this thought to the next level... perhaps a few steps too far. How? By randomly selecting citizens to die as young adults and only informing them of their fate when they only have 24 hours left to live.

Would you get mad? Be shell-shocked, or become overwhelmed with grief? Would you try to live it up before the end, or try to settle some old scores?

 

[Johnny Drama]

1) Wake up and eat candy for breakfast

2) Buy a Ferrari with a post dated check that is most definitley sure to bounce

3) Drive my Ferrari over a cliff and jump out at the last second.

4) Get banned from SHH buy posting porn pics with Drakon and Dbella's faces photoshoped onto them.

5) hit on and get rejected by ATP, get beat up buy Spoons

6) Eat a giant bowl of fruity pebbles with a wooden spoon

7) say goodbye to my family

8) rob a bank naked

 

[DarbyD53]

Go to my moms to eat her homemade breakfast one last night, not inform her what was going on then come home to my wife. She would know. I'd spend my entire day with her, and I'd watch Independence Day one more time. Keep it simple

 

[MessiahDecoy123]

1) Take some shrooms

2) Go to the zoo.

3) Go to a pet shop and play with the puppies.

4) Make love at the beach during sunset

5) Go on a hard drug binge.

 

[Johnny Drama]

1) Take some shrooms

2) Go to the zoo.

3) Go to a pet shop and play with the puppies.

4) Make love at the beach during sunset

5) Go on a hard drug binge.

That's what we call a sunday

 

[AnorexicBatman]

I would run to my car... Open the hood... take one lead from my car battery and attach it to my left nipple... take the other lead and attach it to my tongue ... turn on the ignition....

*points for reference*

OR

Summon the main characters of assorted Japanese anime to help me fight of the evil Japanese company that is trying to kill me...

 

[Immortalfire]

I'd come to the Hype and make a thread about how it was my last day to live, and ask what I should do.

 

[Majic Walrus]

1) Take some shrooms

2) Go to the zoo.

3) Go to a pet shop and play with the puppies.

4) Make love at the beach during sunset

5) Go on a hard drug binge.

Why would you spend the better part of your day out of your mind if it was the last day you'd have?


I mean I probably wouldn't go to work all day, but I'd stop by to let my co-workers know what was going on. I'd also let them know what their assignments were and suggest a replacement. I would visit and prophetically inform all of my close friends and family. I'd eat all my favorite foods... Probably far too much of them. I create a will... I'd let my family know my last wishes.

 

[MessiahDecoy123]

Why would you spend the better part of your day out of your mind if it was the last day you'd have?

Out of my mind? hardly...

Personally mind altering drugs take me on a spiritual journey in the right environment. Which is a reason I feel the government has no right to tell me I can or can't ingest something capable of giving me a spiritual awakening as shrooms and acid has done for me in the past.

Tripping can be the most profound and powerful event of ones life. It can just be weird chain of meaningless events but it also has the potential to open entirely hidden windows of your conscious mind, make you feel as if you felt the voice of God, or simply take your brain for cosmic journey beyond words. They don't tell you that on the news as Bill Hicks famously said:

"Wouldn't you like to see a positive LSD story on the news? To hear what it's all about, perhaps? Wouldn't that be interesting? Just for once? 'Today, a young man on acid realized that all matter is merely energy condensed to a slow vibration - that we are all one consciousness experiencing itself subjectively. There's no such thing as death, life is only a dream, and we're the imagination of ourselves. Here's Tom with the weather.'"

- Bill Hicks

 

[MessiahDecoy123]

As far as doing hard drugs, there's a reason a good number of addicts give their life savings to revisit that first hit of heroin or cocaine over and over again. I would probably binge on those a few hours before execution.

 

[MessiahDecoy123]

That's what we call a sunday

I was young once too.

 

[Majic Walrus]

Out of my mind? hardly...

Personally mind altering drugs take me on a spiritual journey in the right environment. Which is a reason I feel the government has no right to tell me I can or can't ingest something capable of giving me a spiritual awakening as shrooms and acid has done for me in the past.

Tripping can be the most profound and powerful event of ones life. It can just be weird chain of meaningless events but it also has the potential to open entirely hidden windows of your conscious mind, make you feel as if you felt the voice of God, or simply take your brain for cosmic journey beyond words. They don't tell you that on the news as Bill Hicks famously said:

"Wouldn't you like to see a positive LSD story on the news? To hear what it's all about, perhaps? Wouldn't that be interesting? Just for once? 'Today, a young man on acid realized that all matter is merely energy condensed to a slow vibration - that we are all one consciousness experiencing itself subjectively. There's no such thing as death, life is only a dream, and we're the imagination of ourselves. Here's Tom with the weather.'"

- Bill Hicks

Dude I'm not saying that LSD is wrong but it is an hallucinogenic drug. It causes you to see, hear, smell, and feel things that aren't there. Hallucinations. If hallucinations help you find spiritual meaning, that's cool. I guess it's no worse than believing a book.

All I'm saying is that I'd rather say goodbye to my friends and family without seeing ants crawl all over them or without their head's being twice normal size. Furthermore I really don't want anyone's last memory of me to be tripping balls on acid.

As far as doing hard drugs, there's a reason a good number of addicts give their life savings to revisit that first hit of heroin or cocaine over and over again. I would probably binge on those a few hours before execution.

Yeah. It's called addiction. I know people who have told me about forgetting to feed their kids when they were doing meth, their skin breaking out in blotches and hives, loosing weight rapidly because they don't eat... They hate what meth does to them. Then I see those same people begging for money so that they can buy more meth.

Addiction to a substance doesn't mean that if feels great so you keep doing it. If that were the case addiction would be easy to quit. Additiction comes from your body's dependance on a substance so that when you don't do it you feel bad.

 

[Kane52630]

1) Take some shrooms

2) Go to the zoo.

3) Go to a pet shop and play with the puppies.

4) Make love at the beach during sunset

5) Go on a hard drug binge.

hopefully 3 and 4 doesnt go together

 

[enterthemadness]

Probably cry and maybe watch dvds and play with cats.

OR...

1. Play with cats one last time.

2. Smoke a **** load of smokes.

3. Go to the government and say 'I can't die *****ez, I'm still a virgin, so durr.

4. Go to a strip club.

5. Hopefully get laid.

6. Moonwalk.

7. Point my finger at a bunch of women and say 'Pow, you've been finger banged Then moonwalk away on my hands.

 

[Wiseman]

I can't say what I would do without looking like a bad person. Well I am a bad person but I don't want to put into words how bad

 

[MessiahDecoy123]

Dude I'm not saying that LSD is wrong but it is an hallucinogenic drug. It causes you to see, hear, smell, and feel things that aren't there. Hallucinations. If hallucinations help you find spiritual meaning, that's cool. I guess it's no worse than believing a book.

It's not simply hallucinations it's also altered ways of thinking and overall perception. You can marginalize it if you want to by saying none of it's based on reality that doesn't negate the profound power possible in the experience.. Perception is simply a collection of sounds, visions, and feelings whether real or imagined. Altering your perception doesn't devalue your new perception. Your new perception based on altered sounds, altered visions, and altered feeling can be more meaningful to ones own existence than your previous reality based perception. An altered perception can actually allow you to envision, imagine, and realize ideas you were incapable of seeing with a sober reality.

All I'm saying is that I'd rather say goodbye to my friends and family without seeing ants crawl all over them or without their head's being twice normal size. Furthermore I really don't want anyone's last memory of me to be tripping balls on acid.

Well my visuals are never that vivid. Light shimmers more intensely, walls swell, colors streak, and the occasional eyebrow raises above the possible range but I don't see my loved ones covered by insects and heads don't balloon twice their size. Perhaps that's the reason my trips have been more spiritual because they're cerebral and less visual. If your acid trips are limited to seeing bugs crawling and huge heads swelling then I don't blame you for spending your final day looking at old photos and postcards with your Mom instead of altering your perception for a possible spiritual awakening or even a wild perceptual ride for a matter of hours. Or you could do both. Spending the entire day staring down your loved ones for the final time would be beyond depressing anyway. Why not take some acid and go to the furthest reaches of your imagination for few hours?

Yeah. It's called addiction. I know people who have told me about forgetting to feed their kids when they were doing meth, their skin breaking out in blotches and hives, loosing weight rapidly because they don't eat... They hate what meth does to them. Then I see those same people begging for money so that they can buy more meth.

Addiction to a substance doesn't mean that if feels great so you keep doing it. If that were the case addiction would be easy to quit. Additiction comes from your body's dependance on a substance so that when you don't do it you feel bad.

I'm aware addiction is bad in the long term. However taking some heroin when you have hours to live isn't such a bad idea. Especially if its like 50 orgasms at once. Why not? You're not going to feel withdrawal in the morning. You won't be amongst the living.

I mean does anyone eating their last meal worry about cholesterol?

 

[Doctor Jones]

Beat up some kids whom I've wanted too, will probably lose, but hey, at least I'll inflict some damage.

Get laid (bet you didn't see that coming)

Barge into school and take my crush out of school and doing stuff with her all day (this is plan b if the sex thing doesn't work)

See a movie

Watch Jaws

Play with my cat

Eat my mom's dinner

Punch and hug my brother

Stop a crime form happening

Have to think of more.

 

[Drakon]

1) Wake up and eat candy for breakfast

2) Buy a Ferrari with a post dated check that is most definitley sure to bounce

3) Drive my Ferrari over a cliff and jump out at the last second.

4) Get banned from SHH buy posting porn pics with Drakon and Dbella's faces photoshoped onto them.

5) hit on and get rejected by ATP, get beat up buy Spoons

6) Eat a giant bowl of fruity pebbles with a wooden spoon

7) say goodbye to my family

8) rob a bank naked

Banned? You'd get nom for poster of the year in my book.

Uh, I mean....

Ummmm....

Hey! Look! A thing!!

/dash

I'd come to the Hype and make a thread about how it was my last day to live, and ask what I should do.

Ah, ImmortalSatire. How I missed you.

 

[Adenjo]

1. Go to bank and get loan.

2. Spend loan on high class call girls (yes plural)

3. Return to bank and rob it.

4. Track down an old enemy from my school days and punch him.

5. Swear blind to cops that the person I punched was actually the brains behind my "robbing the bank" scheme.



Actually in truth, knowing I only had one day left.. My list would probably look like...

1. Sit down.

2. Cry.. A lot.

 

[Ace of Knaves]

I'd probably go on a rampage and kill some corrupt politicians and bankers. Torture a few peedo's and rapists. Eat about 20 tubs of Ben and Jerry's Phish Food Ice Cream. Make love to Helen Mirren, repeatedly. And to top it off I would fly a jumbo jet into Iran's presidents palace, with him asleep in there.

 

[Doctor Jones]

I'll pull a V and blow up Congress.

Then I might lead a high speed car chase Kirk style and end with almost falling off a cliff. When they ask me my name I will respond, "My name is James Tiberius Kirk!"

 

[Anubis]

Eat a plate of some Bacon infused Waffles

Punch a pigeon out of the sky.

Walk up to some hot chick in really short shorts that I don't even know and lick her left butt cheek.

Spit in somebodies eggs.

Make sweet, sweet love to the most beautiful transsexual prostitute I could find.

Go to the top of the Sears Tower and watch the sun set.

See a donkey show

Die in the arms of somebody that truly loves me.

 

[Majic Walrus]

It's not simply hallucinations it's also altered ways of thinking and overall perception. You can marginalize it if you want to by saying none of it's based on reality that doesn't negate the profound power possible in the experience.. Perception is simply a collection of sounds, visions, and feelings whether real or imagined. Altering your perception doesn't devalue your new perception. Your new perception based on altered sounds, altered visions, and altered feeling can be more meaningful to ones own existence than your previous reality based perception. An altered perception can actually allow you to envision, imagine, and realize ideas you were incapable of seeing with a sober reality.

I agree mostly. I don't mean to marginalize it but practically using hallucinations to see new perceptions aren't the highest thing on my list of To Do on the last day of my life. Also, how much acid have you done? (That last part was a joke.)

Well my visuals are never that vivid. Light shimmers more intensely, walls swell, colors streak, and the occasional eyebrow raises above the possible range but I don't see my loved ones covered by insects and heads don't balloon twice their size. Perhaps that's the reason my trips have been more spiritual because they're cerebral and less visual. If your acid trips are limited to seeing bugs crawling and huge heads swelling then I don't blame you for spending your final day looking at old photos and postcards with your Mom instead of altering your perception for a possible spiritual awakening or even a wild perceptual ride for a matter of hours. Or you could do both. Spending the entire day staring down your loved ones for the final time would be beyond depressing anyway. Why not take some acid and go to the furthest reaches of your imagination for few hours?

My trips were never that "bad" but when I did hallucinate on 'shrooms (which by the way are not regulated by the government) or other things.
They have been cerebral but I've also had bad trips and freak outs. My perceptions are hard to describe really... But after the trip was over I didn't think that my previous "Trip" was anything less than a hallucination based on chemical influences. This is probably due to the fact that I really don't believe in a spirit or most metaphysical things. I guess when it means something great to you you'd probably want to do it again before you die.

I'm aware addiction is bad in the long term. However taking some heroin when you have hours to live isn't such a bad idea. Especially if its like 50 orgasms at once. Why not? You're not going to feel withdrawal in the morning. You won't be amongst the living.

I mean does anyone eating their last meal worry about cholesterol?

Obviously you wouldn't worry about addiction, but my point was that heroin and "hard" drugs aren't really all that they're cracked up to be the only reason that so many people do them is because of the addiction.

You know the old, try it once and you're hooked argument.

It really isn't that good an argument against having a complete drug binge in the last few minutes of your life I know. It's just an argument against drug use in general.

Remember: Stay in school and don't smoke weed kids. It makes Captain America sad.

 

[Majic Walrus]

1. Go to bank and get loan.

2. Spend loan on high class call girls (yes plural)

3. Return to bank and rob it.

4. Track down an old enemy from my school days and punch him.

5. Swear blind to cops that the person I punched was actually the brains behind my "robbing the bank" scheme.



Actually in truth, knowing I only had one day left.. My list would probably look like...

1. Sit down.

2. Cry.. A lot.

Realism makes us all sad.

 

[Majic Walrus]

1) Wake up and eat candy for breakfast

2) Buy a Ferrari with a post dated check that is most definitley sure to bounce

3) Drive my Ferrari over a cliff and jump out at the last second.

4) Get banned from SHH buy posting porn pics with Drakon and Dbella's faces photoshoped onto them.

5) hit on and get rejected by ATP, get beat up buy Spoons

6) Eat a giant bowl of fruity pebbles with a wooden spoon

7) say goodbye to my family

8) rob a bank naked

1. Go to bank and get loan.

2. Spend loan on high class call girls (yes plural)

3. Return to bank and rob it.

4. Track down an old enemy from my school days and punch him.

5. Swear blind to cops that the person I punched was actually the brains behind my "robbing the bank" scheme.

What's the point in robbing a bank on the last day of your life?