When near death, would you drink?
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I would accept the shots, but I secretly wouldn't drink them, then I would pretend to be drunk off my butt and lure the guard into my cell, then I would put him in the sleeper hold and render him unconscious. I would then put on his uniform and sneak out using his cell keys, and drive his vehicle out of the prison. Once out I would call my old gang and we would get back together and rob banks using past presidents masks as disquises during the winter, then I would fly to a remote island and live a sober life like a king and surf everyday......That's what I would do!
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Originally Posted by Threshold
and have as much sex as was humanly possible.
Originally Posted by Supercrew
I would accept the shots, but I secretly wouldn't drink them, then I would pretend to be drunk off my butt and lure the guard into my cell, then I would put him in the sleeper hold and render him unconscious. I would then put on his uniform and sneak out using his cell keys, and drive his vehicle out of the prison. Once out I would call my old gang and we would get back together and rob banks using past presidents masks as disquises during the winter, then I would fly to a remote island and live a sober life like a king and surf everyday......That's what I would do!
rode hard and put away wet
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Probably, but then again, I've surprised myself in sobriety by dong things I had considered improbable for me at the time. I don't really know what I'd do, but the only thing I have to measure by is my past track record, then I'd say "probably".
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I'm not sure what I'd do. I know I'd consider having the drinks for sure. But I also feel that by getting wasted I wouldn't be "true" - to myself, my family, or to Him (God, higher power, etc.) ... and, because of those reasons, I think I'd probably opt out of the drinks and go forward sober and "real" .... Besides, one thing I definitely would NOT want is my family having to go on with their lives with their last memory of me lying there, drinking my way into death.
But I can't say for sure.
Edit: YES to the brownies and ice cream ..
But I can't say for sure.
Edit: YES to the brownies and ice cream ..
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I have a very special bottle of bourbon, and yeah, if I know I am on my way out, I am going to have a shot a day, not to get wasted, but to savor the taste. I'd also eat a lot of brownies and ice cream and have as much sex as was humanly possible.
I wouldn't drink. You only die once. Might as well take it all in.
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Originally Posted by ReadyAndAble 
lol.... Drunk, stuffed full of brownies and ice cream, and about to die. Who could resist you?
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When I really didn't appreciate my sobriety I would think about this situation and all the drugs and alcohol that I would consume. Even kind of salivate about it. However, now that I have come to respect and appreciate what I have achieved, I wouldn't want to spend the last moments of my life a miserable loser, putting poisons in my body, trying to achieve some sort of artificial feeling to replace my true being. Hell to the No!!! LMFAO. SOBRIETY ROCKS
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I think that even if I had a terminal illness I wouldn't want to go out that way. Whenever I think about drinking now I think of the living hell of withdrawal as opposed to the brief pleasure of the first few drinks.
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I found out 3 weeks ago that I have a rather rare form of cancer and so I actually have had a chance to weigh this question for real.
Oct 15Th will be 12 years sober and Oct 10Th is when I am scheduled to have a majority of my stomach removed and then on the 20Th begin Chemo.
The 15Th is still the most important date in October, therefore I will do as I have these past 4300 plus days;I AM GOING TO WAIT UNTIL TOMORROW COMES before I have my next drink. Funny, every day I wake up it is today so I wait for tomorrow again!
I am really optimistic that I will have many more years, but if that doesn't turn out to be the case, I want to enjoy the ones I do have and that seems to be better sober.
Put me down as a NO
Jon
Oct 15Th will be 12 years sober and Oct 10Th is when I am scheduled to have a majority of my stomach removed and then on the 20Th begin Chemo.
The 15Th is still the most important date in October, therefore I will do as I have these past 4300 plus days;I AM GOING TO WAIT UNTIL TOMORROW COMES before I have my next drink. Funny, every day I wake up it is today so I wait for tomorrow again!
I am really optimistic that I will have many more years, but if that doesn't turn out to be the case, I want to enjoy the ones I do have and that seems to be better sober.
Put me down as a NO
Jon
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I've had enough of jail, and since I live my life so I won't ever go BACK, much less death row, I'd say no. However, I have thought about if I'd been diagnosed with a deadly disease and had limited time on this earth what I'd do. My gut says I'd do like my mom and my cousin...be grateful for every day I have, be ready to go and at peace when it's time.
Hugs and prayers,
Amy
Hugs and prayers,
Amy
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Originally Posted by Nightsd
Say that you're in prison, on death row. You will be executed in two weeks. The governor has denied you pardon, the whole nine yards.
Then, SOMEHOW, you find a guard that will give you shots of whiskeybecause the guard likes you and feels sorry for you.
Would you take the drinks?
Then, SOMEHOW, you find a guard that will give you shots of whiskeybecause the guard likes you and feels sorry for you.
Would you take the drinks?
It is a little impossible for me to say right now that I will never drink again but I do feel that if I knew I was dying then it would be even easier to say so.
I do not want to die a drunk. There would be more a chance of me losing my sobriety due to some sort of extreme good times then if I was facing death.
The more serious I feel about life then the more I reject alcohol as an option.
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Originally Posted by Jfanagle
I found out 3 weeks ago that I have a rather rare form of cancer and so I actually have had a chance to weigh this question for real.
Oct 15Th will be 12 years sober and Oct 10Th is when I am scheduled to have a majority of my stomach removed and then on the 20Th begin Chemo.
The 15Th is still the most important date in October, therefore I will do as I have these past 4300 plus days;I AM GOING TO WAIT UNTIL TOMORROW COMES before I have my next drink. Funny, every day I wake up it is today so I wait for tomorrow again!
I am really optimistic that I will have many more years, but if that doesn't turn out to be the case, I want to enjoy the ones I do have and that seems to be better sober.
Put me down as a NO
Jon
Oct 15Th will be 12 years sober and Oct 10Th is when I am scheduled to have a majority of my stomach removed and then on the 20Th begin Chemo.
The 15Th is still the most important date in October, therefore I will do as I have these past 4300 plus days;I AM GOING TO WAIT UNTIL TOMORROW COMES before I have my next drink. Funny, every day I wake up it is today so I wait for tomorrow again!
I am really optimistic that I will have many more years, but if that doesn't turn out to be the case, I want to enjoy the ones I do have and that seems to be better sober.
Put me down as a NO
Jon
You are in my prayers!
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