# What are the Top 5 things you'd like to do before you die?
**URL:** https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-are-the-top-5-things-youd-like-to-do-before-you-die/322096
**Category:** In My Humble Opinion
**Created:** [September 17, 2005, 8:24am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-are-the-top-5-things-youd-like-to-do-before-you-die/322096 "2005-09-17T08:24:11Z")
**Posts on this page:** 12
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### Author:  [@Seven](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Seven)
#### Post date: [September 19, 2005, 4:04am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-are-the-top-5-things-youd-like-to-do-before-you-die/322096/41 "2005-09-19T04:04:43Z")
I’ve completed almost all the items on my list (buy a new car, buy a house, start a business, start an ISP, sell records, create offspring, get married, live on the coast). The only thing left is to leave this country and I think I’ve only got 3 more weeks before the paperwork is all set to go.
Once the move is complete I’ll have to start a new list.
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### Author:  [@ftg](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ftg)
#### Post date: [September 19, 2005, 12:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-are-the-top-5-things-youd-like-to-do-before-you-die/322096/42 "2005-09-19T12:09:29Z")
1. Find a cure for aging. Then the list of things to do before I die would be a lot longer than 5 items.
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### Author:  [@BadBadger](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BadBadger)
#### Post date: [September 19, 2005, 12:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-are-the-top-5-things-youd-like-to-do-before-you-die/322096/43 "2005-09-19T12:26:00Z")
1. Be a really good guitarist
2. Ride across the rockies
3. Swim with orcas
4. Settle down and hold my child
5.
> [@Priceguy](#):
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> Have loads and loads of really immoral, offensive sex with multiple partners of various genders and orientations
- that one. Though not necessarily with Priceguy… 😉
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### Author:  [@plnnr](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/plnnr)
#### Post date: [September 19, 2005, 12:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-are-the-top-5-things-youd-like-to-do-before-you-die/322096/44 "2005-09-19T12:38:31Z")
1. Skydive
2. See Tahiti with my wife
3. Attend my daughter’s wedding to someone worthy of her
4. Visit my ancestral home in Scotland
5. Take a cross country driving trip in a really nice convertible
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### Author:  [@BobLibDem](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BobLibDem)
#### Post date: [September 19, 2005, 12:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-are-the-top-5-things-youd-like-to-do-before-you-die/322096/45 "2005-09-19T12:50:47Z")
> [@drm](#):
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> 1. To stop being such a coward and finally tell her I love her.
Suppose when you finally do, you learn she’s felt the same way and wanted to tell you? Maybe that’s number one on her list, too.
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### Author:  [@drm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/drm)
#### Post date: [September 19, 2005, 4:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-are-the-top-5-things-youd-like-to-do-before-you-die/322096/46 "2005-09-19T16:23:34Z")
**BobLibDem**
True enough, and she _does_ like me enough to be friends with me. Thanks. 🙂
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### Author:  [@Hey\_It\_s\_That\_Guy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hey_It_s_That_Guy)
#### Post date: [September 19, 2005, 4:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-are-the-top-5-things-youd-like-to-do-before-you-die/322096/47 "2005-09-19T16:51:35Z")
> [@Mississippienne](#):
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> 1. Live with the Rainbow Children for awhile, not forever, just a few weeks.
1. Shower for a week afterwards?
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### Author:  [@Finagle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Finagle)
#### Post date: [September 19, 2005, 5:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-are-the-top-5-things-youd-like-to-do-before-you-die/322096/48 "2005-09-19T17:21:11Z")
> [@wonder9](#):
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> Top 5
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> 1. See the Northern Lights ( I have GOT to get out of North Carolina…)
[Apparently not.](http://www.hometownlocator.com/City/Aurora-North-Carolina.cfm)
[Really, you can (very) occasionally see them in NC.](http://spacescience.com/headlines/y2000/ast07apr_2m.htm)
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### Author:  [@wonder9](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/wonder9)
#### Post date: [September 20, 2005, 12:32am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-are-the-top-5-things-youd-like-to-do-before-you-die/322096/49 "2005-09-20T00:32:02Z")
> [@Finagle](#):
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> [Apparently not.](http://www.hometownlocator.com/City/Aurora-North-Carolina.cfm)
> [Really, you can (very) occasionally see them in NC.](http://spacescience.com/headlines/y2000/ast07apr_2m.htm)
Aurora is actually well known for “fossil dirt”, the leftovers from mining that contain loads and loads of tiny fossils. Science teachers order it by the load to use for fossil digs.
And I was deeply hopeful that the lastest huge discharge from the sun would be enough for the aurora to be visible down here. Sadly, a bright partial moon and partly cloudy skies diminished any chance I may have had.
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### Author:  [@Contrapuntal](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Contrapuntal)
#### Post date: [September 20, 2005, 12:38am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-are-the-top-5-things-youd-like-to-do-before-you-die/322096/50 "2005-09-20T00:38:43Z")
I’m pretty much set on ringing in the next millenium change with a beautiful lady and a nice bottle of champaign. After that, everything else is gravy.
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### Author:  [@Regallag\_The\_Axe](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Regallag_The_Axe)
#### Post date: [September 20, 2005, 1:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-are-the-top-5-things-youd-like-to-do-before-you-die/322096/51 "2005-09-20T01:00:06Z")
In no particular order:
-See thunder in a snow storm.
-Visit England, Ireland, Germany, and Sweden.
-Win a Nobel Prize.
-Have as much fun as possible.
-Find love.
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### Author:  [@Misnomer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Misnomer)
#### Post date: [September 20, 2005, 2:42am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-are-the-top-5-things-youd-like-to-do-before-you-die/322096/52 "2005-09-20T02:42:22Z")
> [@Contrapuntal](#):
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> the next millenium change
Am I missing something, or do you intend to live another 995 years? 😕
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