If you're going to die soon...
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Joey Shabadoo
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Do you teach chemistry?
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Got rid of/buried the potentially embarassing stuff?
classic33
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You'd have to know how my mind worked to find that stuff. Then you may be in with a chance.
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mustang1
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No no, well I certainly hope not.
It's just that when I go to a funeral after someone has worked long hours all his life and just a short while after retirement, they die. Then people at the funeral talk about "his hard life, his long hours, see what happened just after retiring, what kinda life is this?" and then the following day the same people go back to work, long hours, and so on.
Kind of reminds me of the boiling frog.
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mustang1
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Sorry to hear about this. It's always orders of magnitude harder to contemplate when a child is involved.
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mustang1
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Work have us over a barrel unfortunately. As part of the pension package there is a 12 x annual salary payout in the event of death in service. This, and only this, would probably keep me working to the end because that would be a huge sum to help my family get on with their lives after I had gone.
Not a cheery thought though
...but a noble one.
biggs682
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How good is the diagnosis ?
As i wouldn't want to blow it all away then find out it was wrong and end up having no money .
As i wouldn't want to blow it all away then find out it was wrong and end up having no money .
Lavender Rose
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I have heard several horror stories, where people have been handed terminal medical news - INCORRECTLY, so they have had a total YOLO experience with their savings and credit cards, then found out they were misdiagnosed and then end up with still pretty serious medical issues and no savings etc!
I think it depends on what my diagnosis was - I would definitely end up travelling and seeing the places I have always wanted to go and meet people who I would want to as well, just the experiences really. Plus, because I am selfless, I would also treat my parents to things they haven't got round to doing - because seeing them happier, makes me happier than myself being happy? If that makes sense.
I think it depends on what my diagnosis was - I would definitely end up travelling and seeing the places I have always wanted to go and meet people who I would want to as well, just the experiences really. Plus, because I am selfless, I would also treat my parents to things they haven't got round to doing - because seeing them happier, makes me happier than myself being happy? If that makes sense.
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mm - yes there is the phrase, not sure of its origins, "no one ever lay on their death bed wishing they had spent longer in the office".
Though just as some entertainers die on stage I suppose a fair few people pop it in the midst of draft whatever of a marketing report.
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Interesting - can you say more?
Lavender Rose
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People that I have met through various interests and hobbies online, like gaming, instagram friends - stuff like that! and maybe a few bike weirdo's from here
classic33
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There's none on here!People that I have met through various interests and hobbies online, like gaming, instagram friends - stuff like that! and maybe a few bike weirdo's from here
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mustang1
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It seems like many of us would not go to work if we had enough cash in the bank and instead do things that we enjoy .
But what if our job is the thing that we enjoy. Take Steve Jobs for example, he enjoyed his work until the very end .
But what if our job is the thing that we enjoy. Take Steve Jobs for example, he enjoyed his work until the very end .
