3 minutes to live... what do you do?

[Vehn]

I don't get the jerk off stuff at all.

[_TKO_]

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I'd start writing. As I wrote, I'd verbally settle everything I felt I could settle with myself in the next three minutes. They'd find me slumped over the keyboard, I guess.

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I'm not a huge believer in God, and I do most of my writing on the computer these days. I was originally going to answer that I would sit back and do nothing, waiting calmly until it happened, but if I felt any sort of discomfort with the idea that I was about to die, writing would be the best way for me to deal with that. It's not so much about begging forgiveness from anyone as it is about making peace with myself.

I'm in my room right now with the door closed and dirty laundry all over the floor.

I'd probably break down the three minutes like this:
5 seconds to furrow my brow in curiosity.
25 seconds to consider the gravity of the situation.
60 seconds to write something poetic along the lines of, "I am about to die, and I am okay with that."
30 seconds to open the door and clear a path to my bed.
30 seconds to undress and climb into my bed.
20 seconds to lay down, get comfortable, and relax.
10 seconds to take in a deep breath and await the absence of articulated thought.
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180 seconds.

[Warik]

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You find out (for one reason or another) that you have exactly 3 minutes to live. What do you do?

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Kill myself. [censored] that. Nobody tells me when I'm going to die - I decide. [img]/images/graemlins/grin.gif[/img]

[waxie]

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Light up a cigarette so that I create a temporal disturbance. Since it is generally accepted that every cigarette takes 7 minutes off your life, smoking a cigarette would mean that I have -4 minutes to live, meaning I would have already died, but I am still living.

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Nice.