BS: Would you like to know the hour of your

Subject: RE: BS: Would you like to know the hour of your
From: Art Thieme
Date: 09 May 04 - 02:39 PM

Doctor told my uncle that he was going to die at 8:00 AM the next sunday morning. He and friends went out Saturday night. Got drunk and did lots they always wanted to do. At 2:00 AM one guy passed out. At 2:30 one guy was done in so he went home. Same thing at 3:00 and 4:00 AM. The guy who was going to pass away got really angry and raised the roof about everyone leaving him alone. The remaining few said, "It's easy for you to talk; you don't have to get up in the morning."

I told that one for years---and a few times here at Mudcat as well. That and lots of never before issued in-concert songs will be on it too.

Art

Subject: RE: BS: Would you like to know the hour of your
From: Ebbie
Date: 09 May 04 - 01:42 PM

Personally, I'm not planning to go. I'm aware that no one has lived forever but someone's got to be first.



(I forget who said that- but obviously s/he is a contemporary.)

Subject: RE: BS: Would you like to know the hour of your
From: Sorcha
Date: 09 May 04 - 12:57 PM

NO! Not where, whnn, hour or anything. I'll just be moving on, thank you very much.

Subject: RE: BS: Would you like to know the hour of your
From: Ellenpoly
Date: 09 May 04 - 06:52 AM

No, Hollowfox. But I guess I should?..xx..e

Subject: RE: BS: Would you like to know the hour of your
From: Hollowfox
Date: 08 May 04 - 03:55 PM

Just got back from seeing "Big Fish", eh, Ellenpoly?

Subject: RE: BS: Would you like to know the hour of your
From: Cluin
Date: 08 May 04 - 10:50 AM

No. But I'd like to choose it.

Subject: RE: BS: Would you like to know the hour of your
From: Ellenpoly
Date: 08 May 04 - 05:58 AM

Good one, Jerry!

I think I'd like to know. In fact, I'd like to pick it.

And if not, I'd certainly like my last words to be "Wow! That was the BEST..."

..xx..E

Subject: RE: BS: Would you like to know the hour of your
From: Jerry Rasmussen
Date: 07 May 04 - 10:08 PM

Don't care to know. I would like to know what my forwarding address is goin to be, though.

Jerry

Subject: RE: BS: Would you like to know the hour of your
From: mack/misophist
Date: 07 May 04 - 09:22 PM

Yes. It would be nice to know all the loose ends were taken care of.

Subject: RE: BS: Would you like to know the hour of your
From: beardedbruce
Date: 07 May 04 - 09:22 PM

well, mine was back in '96... but I got better.

Subject: RE: BS: Would you like to know the hour of your
From: Ebbie
Date: 07 May 04 - 09:09 PM

A friend of mine died on a mountain when he fell at least 400 feet. He was 29 years old. From his front window he must have seen that mountain a thousand times- do you suppose most of us have seen the place where we will die?

Subject: RE: BS: Would you like to know the hour of your
From: Richard Atkins
Date: 07 May 04 - 08:15 PM

Must buy Leadfingers a pint if he survives till our next meeting.Bought him one last time we met and he gave me two back.I must have looked ill!! My Headstone should read "I told you i was not well & Please dont walk on the grass!

Subject: RE: BS: Would you like to know the hour of your
From: Bobert
Date: 07 May 04 - 06:20 PM

Hour?... Well, sure...

Date, however, is a different story...

Bobert

Subject: RE: BS: Would you like to know the hour of your
From: Leadfingers
Date: 07 May 04 - 05:56 PM

I dont know about WHEN but I do know HOW . I am going to die of thirst standing at a bar and being totally ignored by the barman!!!!

Subject: RE: BS: Would you like to know the hour of your
From: Allan C.
Date: 07 May 04 - 05:22 PM

Clinton, that beats the hell out of "Hey you guys, watch this!"

Subject: RE: BS: Would you like to know the hour of your
From: Clinton Hammond
Date: 07 May 04 - 04:26 PM

I'm hoping my last words can be...

"Now I know why I never liked my birthday...."

Heh

Subject: RE: BS: Would you like to know the hour of your
From: GUEST,Bill Kennedy
Date: 07 May 04 - 04:05 PM

W. S. Merwin wrote this poem many years ago called

For the Anniversary of My Death

Every year without knowing it I have passed the day
When the last fires will wave to me
ANd the silence will set out
Tireless traveller
Like the beam of a lightless star

Then I will no longer
Find myself in life as in a strange garment
Surprised at the earth
ANd the love of one woman
And the shamelessness of men
As today writing after three days of rain
Hearing the wren sing and the falling cease
And bowing not knowing to what

Subject: RE: BS: Would you like to know the hour of your
From: Big Mick
Date: 07 May 04 - 03:36 PM

Seems to me one should live each moment in the certainty that they will die, and they don't know when that time will come. It also seems that the "mystery" surrounding the when of death is a great motivator to make ones life have meaning. Or it can be a motivator of other things as well. Isn't the maturation process all about the knowing that ones life is passing? I guess I am taking the long way around to saying that I find the passing of one's life to be an incredibly interesting experience, and I find the certainty that the end is closer than the beginning to be an incredible stimulus to seek to understand as much as I can. Add to that the uncertainty of "when?", and it almost lends a zest to the quest. Do I want to know when? Nope. Do I care? This is less and less important as time goes on.

All the best,

Mick

Subject: RE: BS: Would you like to know the hour of your
From: Bill D
Date: 07 May 04 - 03:02 PM

entire sci-fi stories have been written about 'knowing', and trying to avoid the circumstance....

naww...I don't wanna know in advance excatly....but I 'might' like to know IF I only have a "short time", so I could tie up some loose ends. I will always have loose ends, even with a will. "Honey, make sure Uncle Hiram doesn't get any of my records....and I have $40 hidden in my copy of RUS (I knew you'd never look there)."

Subject: RE: BS: Would you like to know the hour of your
From: rumanci
Date: 07 May 04 - 02:50 PM

I wouldn't mind knowing just where it was going to happen .........


because I'd make damned sure I never went near the place *grin*

Subject: RE: BS: Would you like to know the hour of your
From: Clinton Hammond
Date: 07 May 04 - 02:21 PM

It's a small matter...

Subject: RE: BS: Would you like to know the hour of your
From: Mr Happy
Date: 07 May 04 - 01:58 PM

if i knew - i guess the shock'd kill me!

Subject: RE: BS: Would you like to know the hour of your
From: jacqui.c
Date: 07 May 04 - 01:55 PM

Definitely not- I'd be organising things round it.

Subject: RE: BS: Would you like to know the hour of your
From: Allan C.
Date: 07 May 04 - 01:53 PM

If you live each moment as fully as you can, then it really doesn't matter when you die.

Subject: RE: BS: Would you like to know the hour of your
From: Rapparee
Date: 07 May 04 - 11:29 AM

My lower soul is already deceased and my middle one is ailing. I suspect I'd best not know, because the lower one might come back to life just to annoy the upper and middle souls and then where would I be?

As for doing things differently, well, no, probably not. Doing it differently can also mean screwing it up worse than I have already.

Subject: RE: BS: Would you like to know the hour of your
From: GUEST,MMario
Date: 07 May 04 - 11:27 AM

and spoil the surprise?

Subject: RE: BS: Would you like to know the hour of your
From: Little Hawk
Date: 07 May 04 - 11:22 AM

I think not. It would interfere with the game. Anyway, my higher soul does know, so it's taken care of.

Subject: RE: BS: Would you like to know the hour of your
From: Amos
Date: 07 May 04 - 11:19 AM

I'd probably be better not.   I'd spend too much time trying to organize it.

A

Subject: RE: BS: Would you like to know the hour of your
From: gnomad
Date: 07 May 04 - 11:19 AM

Absolutely not, it would spoil the surprise.

Subject: BS: Would you like to know the hour of your
From: Ellenpoly
Date: 07 May 04 - 11:10 AM

Death?

And if so, why and how would you live differently?