Because I do not know that I will die tomorror or today.  I would not call my family, I would call the one lady here that I would want to spend the rest of my life with and would have enough cash to give her so she would stay untill I die, it would be the way I would want to go, she would be richer and not be really bothered at my passing,not that she would not be sad I hope afterwards, but she I hope would just want to make me as happy as I could be for the little time I had left, you know how famly members, brothers, sibling and parents would be crying and making me sad. I would much rather spend it with her. Am I wrong??  Think about it.   Somedays as today, I feel like just going away. Strange you posted this today, Tony.   Jimmy

Re:Interesting thought...

Okay... now you've got me thinking. I suppose I would call my mother, but she is thousands of miles away, and would probably go into panic/shock. Hmmm... I guess I would call the Lord, and ask him to forgive me for all of my wrongs, and let me come and live with him... I surely don't want to go to hell. I dunno.. I need to think about that some more, but right now, I'm not feeling so hot! So, I will have to wait for a day I don't feel so down...

Your phone should be ringing now!

Just reminds me of the people stuck in the WTC on 9/11...

Some of them called loved ones and got answering machines and I would bet that even now, almost 3 yrs later, those messages still exist and are among the most cherished posessions the recipients will ever have. Sometimes just the sound of your voice that makes someone else's day. What you say can make a difference for the rest of their life.

Excuse me...gotta go make a couple of calls.

I've already been there.  I am the 4th person ever in the history of man to ever have cancer in the heart and I am the only one alive.  I am in the medical history books.  They gave me less than 2 weeks to live.  But the twist was that I wasn't out walking around like everyone else.  I was confined to a hospital bed.  Let me tell you what I learned.  Sometimes when you come to the lowest point of your life, I believe God is trying to reveal things to you but you have to open your eyes.  I had 2 good friends for 10 years (so I thought), but when I was dying I never heard once from them.  It hurt at first but that soon passed.  My cancer miraculously disappeared and that was 4 years ago.  I'm not sorry for what I had to go through because there was a lesson that I had to learn, except I had to learn mines the hard way.  Sometimes a person will say that they will be there for you through thick and thin but when s#@t gets thick they thin out!  I say all of that to say this, sometimes friends or what you may think is a friend come and go but family (if it is the right kind of family) will always be there.  So my answer would be my MOM.  Because if I know her she will grab a tape recorder and record my messages to my children and whoever else that I may have words for.  Pray about it.  God may not come when you want him to but he will come right on time.  TRUST ME!