What Would You Do?

[Toby]

Imagine either one of these two scenarios:
1) You are terminally ill of cancer and are about to die in weeks to months.
2) Someone or some group has caught you and is going to kill you in the next hours or days.

What would you do if you find yourself in both or one of these scenarios?

Edited March 19, 2017 by Toby

[sgn]

I choose 1

[Dodo]

1) Meditate in the park

2) Meditate in the park and tell them I am them while they are cutting my throat.

[Emerald]

1st Scenario

• Panic
• Get Depressed
• Try to do other things that I want while resisting awareness of my near looming death
• Try to accept it and let go

2nd Scenario

• Try to process through feelings of panic quickly in order to get into a better and more clear-headed emotional state.
• Observe the environment for clues as to whereI am, what time of day, and other surroundings that may be helpful.
• Observe the perpetrator's behaviors carefully to determine their motivations, level of skill at kidnapping/killing, intelligence level, and presence of empathy.
• Make a plan of escape based upon the information that I glean if possible... especially if the perpetrators are unintelligent or make sloppy mistakes or have emotional weaknesses that can be played upon. Think about why they are doing this in the first place. Is it difficult for them?
• If there are signs of empathy and this behavior is not the norm for this person and they're having moral misgivings about it, try to subtly make myself seem more human to them by complying, being non-resistant, and making myself relatable.
• If there are no signs of empathy, lay low and try to blend if there are other hostages.
• Focus on taking care of other hostages, if there are others, to empower myself and break out of victim's mentality.
• Act compliant and submissive and never let on that there is a plan to escape. 
• Determine whether or not they're trying to kill me. Are they feeding me? Are they revealing themselves without a mask? Are they keeping me there for companionship? Sex slavery/human trafficking? Ransom? Serial killer stuff? If it's anything but the last one, they're most likely going to keep me alive for a little while.
• If the person seems like they are about to kill me, try to escape right away even if circumstances are unfavorable.
• If there is no escape possible, accept my fate and try to let go.

This was a fun hypothetical scenario to think about.

 

Edited March 19, 2017 by Emerald Wilkins

[Martin123]

@Emerald Wilkins yaaaas girl. Super honest I love you!

@Toby both scenarios. So id prolly freak out. However I would try to find the underlying pattern that got me into the situation and that should be the best way for resolution.

[nightrider1435]

1 hour ago, Dodoster said:

1) Meditate in the park

2) Meditate in the park and tell them I am them while they are cutting my throat.

Haha, I second this!

[Prabhaker]

@Emerald Wilkins You have a great intellect, it will be very difficult for you to become a mystic !

[Emerald]

19 minutes ago, Prabhaker said:

@Emerald Wilkins You have a great intellect, it will be very difficult for you to become a mystic !

Thank you for the compliment-ish words. But yes, it's very difficult for me to let go of my intellectualizations. The only time I ever felt satisfied with what I knew and didn't experience the constant thirst to figure things out or seek new knowledge was during my experiences of ego-transcendence. It was only then that I already knew everything, simultaneously didn't care about knowing everything, and felt no urge to seek more knowledge or understanding. Otherwise, it's been a constant craving to feed my intellect. 

[Loreena]

@Toby

1st situation :

 I'd make a huge bucket list of things I wanted to do in my life and that I didn't do for some reason or those that I put off for the future. So I wouldn't care for the future, I will try to have maximum fun and have as much fun as I can within the short span of time before I die.

2nd situation

I believe in the power of prayer so I'll pray  hard. I'll try to stay positive and imagine and dream that things are working out and they'll have mercy on my soul and set me free.

When they bring the  knife closer and I realize nothing works out I will utter these words before they finish me, " Kill me bastards. Fuck off.  I don't care. But remember Karma's a bitch, she will come back to bite you in the ass so I kiss you goodbye."

 

Edited March 20, 2017 by Loreena