Curiouser and Curiouser

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SPS Curious Question #2:
If you were given 24 hours to live, what would you do? Who would you spend your time with? Where would you go? Basically, what would your reactions be?

I would gather all my notebooks, blog entries, and journals together in one place in order to force my brother to publish it under the title, "A Philosophy of Victory: The Thoughts of Victoria Lynn Stiver, 1989-2004." Then I would write letters to Lexi, Sam, Vaness, Maria-fool, and Beth that I would give to my brother to give to them. Once I finished, I would create a website in Dreamweaver using Flash/Fireworks entitled, "1999 Reasons Why I Hate Macromedia: Volume I" and put it on a disk for my brother to give to Chris, Mr Canada, and Mr C (my Web D teacher). Finally, I would put together all my things in a logical order as I talked to my brother (over the sounds of our music) about whatever we felt like talking about at the moment. As we talked, I would request that my french notebook and my history notebook be buried with me, while the quotes in my math notebook needed to be entered into my A Philosophy of Victory book and therefore couldn't be buried with me.

I have this down, man. I've been thinking about what I would want to do before I died since I was ten and heard of suicide notes. Not that it would be suicide, of course--I'm not that down on life--I've just always thought that I couldn't leave everyone with absolutely nothing. Which is why I have a letter written to my brother already about who I want him to tell and what I want buried with me.

Honestly, I haven't thought of death as a bad thing in a long time. "Death is but the next great adventure" and all, you know. I just don't see what could be so awful about the next life that it is worse than this one. If I am a member of any church it is the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints, and as a Mormon I would believe that even the worst of three kingdoms of heaven is better than earth in everything other than matters of God, because a member of that worst kingdom would not have the right to visit God and Jesus.

Even more honestly, because I half-doubt "my" religion, that isn't my main reason for not fearing death. I think that if I have found such wonderful people here that I am bound to found a whole heck of a lot more awesome people in a place where people from all ages exist, and if there isn't a life after death, then I won't have time to be upset about leaving the world, will I?