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Go Big or Go Home

If you had one last chance to do something good with what you have, what would it be? Would you empty your checking account, rent a helicopter, and throw the money out the side? Finally record that song you wrote 10 years ago and post it on YouTube? Serve a meal at the local soup kitchen?

What would your final good deed be?

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I would make sure, unequivocally, that my family and friends knew how much I loved them and how much they meant to me. How would I do this? Throw a big a*s party and celebrate them!

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Reminding every single person I cherish in my life just what kind of impact they had on me. And spending the remaining moments in nz with the one I love.

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I was on a road trip this past weekend and took a pit stop at Subway in a very small town I had never heard of. There was a flyer for a fundraiser for a ten year old boy with a deadly disease. I immediately had this aching desire to help him but had no finances on me at the time. I would go back and find that young man's family and give him all the money that I could. I want to be used to bless people...plain and simple.

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The most extreme show of love that any human could ever concieve, is to sacrifice your life for another.

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I want to live out my days as a missionary in Africa.

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Donate my organs. I am not going to need them once I am gone so I want them to go to a better cause than rotting in the ground. =]

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To be truly honest with friends and family, tell them things I would be too scared to say normally and tell them how much they mean to me.

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Get the final evolutionary strain of HIV that is rumored to annihilate the entire human race, and spread it to as many people as possible before I died. This would be inoculation of the human race, and the survivors will be those pious wait-until-marriage-before-we-have-sex freaks who have been fighting against my rights as a gay man for centuries. I would be a martyr to them or something.

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Like so many of the other answers, my last act would be rooted in love. I'd start by letting my family know that I love them, and I'd express it in ways I have not yet had the courage to do. My final gesture to the earth would be rooted in compassion... I don't completely know what it could possibly be. I'm not a millionaire, I'm a recent graduate - I have nothing to offer financially. I could share my story, but how much of a difference could that make? I would offer hope in any way I could.

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I guess I'd want to make sure that everyone I love knows it. I feel a little queasy thinking about such ultimate acts. I hope that I live my life without regrets so that every good deed is as meaningful as the last.

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Tell my daughters how much I love them, to always treat others how they would like to be treated, and to always, always help those that most need to be helped!

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I'm raising two girls to be honest with themselves and others...an ongoing good deed.

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Silence the world for an entire day. Only the sound of nature would be heard.

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Perform in an awesome jazz band for a crowd of old-timers. I did this once, and it was amazing to see the smiles, them singing the lyrics and their cute dance moves, some even swing dancing. I would give anything to make them feel young again.

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cure something. some deed that would keep on giving.

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i would sit and wait to see what happens, see what approaches me ... maybe it's not really my last day! if i knew for certain i was in the midst of my death, dying and bardo process, i would do everything in my power to ensure my body remained untouched for 72 hours after my biological death -- it's one of the only instuctions in my will ... after that, y'all can have whatever you want, as long as it is correct for you

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It's hard to say. There are so many things in this life I want to do. But if I had to choose, I'd likely leave a nice sum to our local no kill animal shelter to help them pay their bills, buy food, whatever they needed. I have a special place in my heart for animals. Maybe that isn't the most original idea but that's my two cents.

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@CZPhoenix The most impressive final deed, hands down. What a great idea. I totally agree with you -- too often veterans end up in the last place they deserve to be. We should think about it more often and really do something about that. Our safety depends on them.

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I'd probably be very truthful - tell everyone I've ever known exactly what I think of them. Then grab all the money in my savings and give it to one person on the street, and stow away on an airplane and live the rest of my life whever it takes me.

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Maybe I could do a Death Dance like the warrior in Ten Canoes. He died with a map to his soul's home painted on his belly. Ahhhhhh! gotta go practice my death dance!!!!!!!!