# The end is near. What are your plans? **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [October 14, 2023, 6:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-end-is-near-what-are-your-plans/991571 "2023-10-14T18:04:28Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![Nyvaak](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/5f8ce5/32.png) [@Nyvaak](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Nyvaak)\ **Post date:** [October 15, 2023, 7:02am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-end-is-near-what-are-your-plans/991571/21 "2023-10-15T07:02:36Z")
Read the last novel in the Hornblower series. Also a lot of mundane stuff, like making sure my will is up to date, recording information my survivors might need, writing long, loving farewell letters to family members. But I have been saving _Admiral Hornblower in the West Indies_ (the last complete Hornblower novel) for when I really need it. This would be the occasion. ---
**Author:** ![Smapti](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/smapti/32/17938_2.png) [@Smapti](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Smapti)\ **Post date:** [October 15, 2023, 8:51am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-end-is-near-what-are-your-plans/991571/22 "2023-10-15T08:51:03Z")
In that case, I’m cashing out as much of my assets as possible, taking out as many credit cards or loans as I can get immediate access to, flying to Vegas, and partying it up until I kick the bucket. I have no spouse, no heirs, no estate of any significant value, and nobody to saddle my debt with, so the only victims would be the giant corporations that were foolish enough to give me their money in the first place. ---
**Author:** ![Pardel-Lux](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/pardel-lux/32/20182_2.png) [@Pardel-Lux](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Pardel-Lux)\ **Post date:** [October 15, 2023, 8:52am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-end-is-near-what-are-your-plans/991571/23 "2023-10-15T08:52:43Z")
Burying a hatchet sounds like a good idea, now I would have to work out on who’s skull. Note to self: need more hatchets. Prepare some donations for the survivors. Cancel my netflix subscription. Good whisky, good food and marihuana seem like an excellent idea. Re-read the beginnings of some books, see how long I still like them, then take the next one. 100 Years of Solitude, Hitchhicker’s Guide, something by Nietzsche, The Sandman comic series… ---
**Author:** ![Tibby](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/tibby/32/17030_2.png) [@Tibby](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tibby)\ **Post date:** [October 15, 2023, 9:01am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-end-is-near-what-are-your-plans/991571/24 "2023-10-15T09:01:49Z")
A bottle of fine wine, some legal weed (from the dispensary, of course), and a plate of stone-crab claws with a tangy lemon-mustard dip. I’ll watch the Wizard of Oz on TV and sync my final breath with Dorothy’s heel clicks. There’s no place like home, after all. ---
**Author:** ![gnoitall](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/bb73d2/32.png) [@gnoitall](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/gnoitall)\ **Post date:** [October 15, 2023, 12:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-end-is-near-what-are-your-plans/991571/25 "2023-10-15T12:49:52Z")
Try to get caught up on the honey-do list, because apparently I’m the only one who can do this stuff. 😡 ---
**Author:** ![Ulfreida](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ulfreida/32/8014_2.png) [@Ulfreida](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ulfreida)\ **Post date:** [October 15, 2023, 12:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-end-is-near-what-are-your-plans/991571/26 "2023-10-15T12:58:28Z")
Write down the list of personal effects I want to go to specific people – otherwise I’m all caught up with my will etc. Then go on doing what I’m doing now – ride my horse in the forest, go to church, tend my garden, milk my goat, make bread … Maybe I’ll finish that embroidery piece that’s sitting in the corner of my studio, because no one else is going to. ---
**Author:** ![xtenkfarpl](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/x/c2a13f/32.png) [@xtenkfarpl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/xtenkfarpl)\ **Post date:** [October 15, 2023, 4:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-end-is-near-what-are-your-plans/991571/27 "2023-10-15T16:16:48Z")
I’d want to know more about this end. As far as I’m concerned, the only way to go is to be converted into a fully-ionized plasma in less than a nanosecond. So your nervous system cannot possibly register it. If it’s gonna be something nastier and more painful, I might want to pre-empt it. ---
**Author:** ![Gatopescado](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/gatopescado/32/5711_2.png) [@Gatopescado](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gatopescado)\ **Post date:** [October 15, 2023, 4:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-end-is-near-what-are-your-plans/991571/28 "2023-10-15T16:31:10Z")
> [@needscoffee](#): > > Is this something the rest of us are supposed to understand? No, but isn’t this applicable to anything she posts? ---
**Author:** ![xtenkfarpl](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/x/c2a13f/32.png) [@xtenkfarpl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/xtenkfarpl)\ **Post date:** [October 15, 2023, 5:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-end-is-near-what-are-your-plans/991571/29 "2023-10-15T17:17:42Z")
Oh… hang on a moment. You’re not planning suicide are you? I hadn’t thought of that aspect. I remember some years ago when a good musician friend suddenly came over to pick up an album or two he had lent us. Didn’t think much of it at the time, but a week later we heard he had shot himself in a local motel. I think he had clinical depression. In restrospect, he was saying goodbye. Wish we had picked up on the signs and been able to get him some help. If you have problems, talk to your doctor. Please. ---
**Author:** ![Jackmannii](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jackmannii/32/311_2.png) [@Jackmannii](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jackmannii)\ **Post date:** [October 15, 2023, 5:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-end-is-near-what-are-your-plans/991571/30 "2023-10-15T17:28:36Z")
Plant seeds. Hey, they could germinate in time. ---
**Author:** ![Spiff](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/spiff/32/9852_2.png) [@Spiff](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Spiff)\ **Post date:** [October 15, 2023, 5:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-end-is-near-what-are-your-plans/991571/31 "2023-10-15T17:34:30Z")
Hookers and blow. (But that’s my answer for everything!) ---
**Author:** ![Kent\_Clark](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kent_clark/32/105_2.png) [@Kent\_Clark](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kent_Clark)\ **Post date:** [October 15, 2023, 8:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-end-is-near-what-are-your-plans/991571/32 "2023-10-15T20:42:10Z")
> [@xtenkfarpl](#): > > I’d want to know more about this end. As far as I’m concerned, the only way to go is to be converted into a fully-ionized plasma in less than a nanosecond. So your nervous system cannot possibly register it. I’m thinking it’s supposed to be like [the final scene of The Sopranos.](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IqpDxCo2vic) ---
**Author:** ![puzzlegal](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/puzzlegal/32/3827_2.png) [@puzzlegal](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/puzzlegal)\ **Post date:** [October 15, 2023, 8:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-end-is-near-what-are-your-plans/991571/33 "2023-10-15T20:51:05Z")
Moderating > [@Gatopescado](#): > > > [@needscoffee](#): > > > > Is this something the rest of us are supposed to understand? > > No, but isn’t this applicable to anything she posts? Hey, that’s a little over the line, even if you mean it in a friendly way. ---
**Author:** ![Gatopescado](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/gatopescado/32/5711_2.png) [@Gatopescado](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gatopescado)\ **Post date:** [October 16, 2023, 3:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-end-is-near-what-are-your-plans/991571/34 "2023-10-16T03:20:21Z")
I’m sorry. I was posting while waiting for a train in town. ---
**Author:** ![TreacherousCretin](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/treacherouscretin/32/476_2.png) [@TreacherousCretin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TreacherousCretin)\ **Post date:** [October 16, 2023, 3:41am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-end-is-near-what-are-your-plans/991571/35 "2023-10-16T03:41:12Z")
a) Running in place, screaming like a chicken. b) see (a) ---
**Author:** ![nelliebly](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/nelliebly/32/5422_2.png) [@nelliebly](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/nelliebly)\ **Post date:** [October 16, 2023, 4:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-end-is-near-what-are-your-plans/991571/36 "2023-10-16T04:10:20Z")
> [@xtenkfarpl](#): > > Oh… hang on a moment. You’re not planning suicide are you? I hadn’t thought of that aspect. I very much doubt Beck is planning suicide. She’s been fighting to stay alive for quite awhile now and has beloved humans and critters who love and rely on her. She’s also a person who has lots of time to think, hence her interesting questions. Beck, I have my will, living will, POA, and my funeral plans all set, and my kids know where to find them. I’d try to gather my kids and siblings together so they could help each other out. It’s the one thing that really upsets me when I consider my demise: how bereft my kids and siblings will be. It’s hard to think of my children grieving and my not being here to comfort them. ---
**Author:** ![digs](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/digs/32/14889_2.png) [@digs](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/digs)\ **Post date:** [October 16, 2023, 4:15am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-end-is-near-what-are-your-plans/991571/37 "2023-10-16T04:15:51Z")
> [@nelliebly](#): > > It’s the one thing that really upsets me when I consider my demise: how bereft my kids and siblings will be. What a coincidence! That upsets me, too… except it’s the opposite scenario. ---
**Author:** ![Gatopescado](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/gatopescado/32/5711_2.png) [@Gatopescado](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gatopescado)\ **Post date:** [October 16, 2023, 4:33am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-end-is-near-what-are-your-plans/991571/38 "2023-10-16T04:33:25Z")
> [@nelliebly](#): > > It’s the one thing that really upsets me when I consider my demise: how bereft my kids and siblings will be. I can only imagine the Rejoicing! I won’t leave them a cent for the Celebration. They need to BYOB. ---
**Author:** ![Bosda\_Di\_Chi\_of\_Tricor](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bosda_di_chi_of_tricor/32/16845_2.png) [@Bosda\_Di\_Chi\_of\_Tricor](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bosda_Di_Chi_of_Tricor)\ **Post date:** [October 16, 2023, 3:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-end-is-near-what-are-your-plans/991571/39 "2023-10-16T15:13:12Z")
Well, I would bother to do my laundry. ---
**Author:** ![kayaker](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kayaker/32/441_2.png) [@kayaker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kayaker)\ **Post date:** [October 16, 2023, 3:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-end-is-near-what-are-your-plans/991571/40 "2023-10-16T15:59:24Z")
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