Would you want to know? A sad, no fun thread.

[Patrick del Poker Grande]

Alright, this is OOT, so maybe I'm being a little out of line with this, but please no smart-ass joking around with this one. I don't want to see it. I'm not looking for sympathy or anything, just no dicking around. Maybe that'll make this thread boring and it'll just fall off the first page.

I have a second cousin who just died last Saturday. At first, they thought it was an infection from a dry socket after having his wisdom teeth removed a week or so before. His family just found out yesterday that he actually died of some rare form of Leukemia and that's what actually caused the infection. Apparently, the symptoms are an aching jaw and bad headaches, which prompted the doctor to think he needed his wisdom teeth removed when he complained that he was tired and had toothaches and headaches. Anyway, I guess he didn't have very long to live, regardless.

This brings me to the point. It's old and probably been talked about before, but I made the comment to my mom just now that maybe it's better that he/they didn't know about it. That way, you just live your life and aren't all caught up in dying. The flip side of this is that there are some things that I'd want to take care of and make sure I spend time with my loved ones. He was a young guy and was engaged to be married soon, besides everything else.

Would you want to know if you had X amount of time left to live? Two weeks? Six months? A couple years? I'm not sure if I'd want to know or not. I'd be tempted to say I'd just want to spend time with my wife and close family, but I also wouldn't want to burden them with that and just make for a year or whatever lost to sadness for everybody. Some might say they'd travel the world or go skydiving or whatever crap it is they've always wanted to do, but I don't know that I care to do all that kind of stuff.