Death Bed Smoke

**chefchris** · 03-25-2008, 09:13 PM

Ok, so I think about death a lot. Not in the creepy, gothic sort of way .. but I just think about death. In my opinion, I don't think people think about death enough. I have had this weird epiphany hit me a couple times a month for the last few years. It's usually late at night or I will be woken up and it will hit me. I realize that I AM GOING TO DIE. I've talked about this to some friends and they don't seem to have shared the same experience. It's a weird feeling. Knowing that it's something that you can't control ... I don't know. It creeps my girlfriend out and she doesn't like me talking about it. Like I said though, I'm definately not the gothic type.

So ... when I think about death I get angry because I realize that I am going to die with cigars that will be unsmoked (by me at least). It really bothers me. It's helped me in my habit of collecting them and not smoking them. Sometimes I wonder what the last cigar I smoke will be. This is where my question comes in (finally). If you were on your death bed and you were going to smoke one more cigar before you stepped into the unknown ... what would it be? The cigar has to be in your humidor.

**JFellows** · 03-25-2008, 09:25 PM

I'm going to have to go with the Flor de Oliva Super Giant. At 10" x 66, it will take long enough to smoke for a doctor somewhere to find a cure for whatever is killing me.

**Lopaka** · 03-25-2008, 09:37 PM

Currently in my humi...the TOA Opus sitting in there now.

**BigMacFU** · 03-25-2008, 09:52 PM

Originally Posted by Lopaka

Currently in my humi...the TOA Opus sitting in there now.

Yeah, that, or a 1994 RyJ ISOM, or one of my new Partagas Culebras

**guado** · 03-25-2008, 10:00 PM

Probably one of the 2003 Siglo VI's Amazing flavor/year.

**bhands** · 03-26-2008, 01:15 AM

RP vintage 1992 it was my first (real) smoke why not make it my last! Chris what will be your last smoke?

**Mizicke5273** · 03-26-2008, 01:18 AM

Either one of the 2 sharks Ive got sitting in there or the one of the 3 Opus X power rangers.

**bigwhiteash** · 03-26-2008, 08:25 AM

Roly torpedo will be the last thing I smoke

I'm gonna smoke up everything else in the week before I die

**nhcigarfan** · 03-26-2008, 08:36 AM

SLR Dbl. Corona ISOM. Largets smoke I've got that I actually want to smoke.

I also have an egg, been sitting on it for about 3 years. Hasn't hatched in to a better cigar yet.

**ashauler** · 03-26-2008, 10:02 AM

Well, if I knew far enough in advance, I would follow bigwhiteash's lead and smoke up and gift out everything I had........but if just time for one cigar it would have to be a RASS from
'05.

**slcraiders** · 03-26-2008, 10:54 AM

Chris, you are not alone, bro. I think about death quite often as well. Sometimes it is an acceptance thing and quite a peaceful thought. More often, I think "Phuck- I don't wanna die"!

I would want to smoke something decadent before I pass.. ..something I do not have yet like a pre-embargo cuban Davidoff.

**cigar no baka** · 03-26-2008, 02:29 PM

Chris, stop thinking about death. I am usually preoccupied with today, as there may be no tomorrow, but we never know when. So don't wait to live life; it is precious and you don't get second chances.

To answer your question though, if I was told I had 24 hours or less to live (like, for example, i ate fugu and got the parts of the fish that make you die and melt your liver shortly after consumption), I would be smoking Zino Platinum Crowns nonstop till the grim reaper hit me. They are worth the expense. I smoke a few a month right now, but I would smoke a few a week if I could afford them.

**basil** · 03-26-2008, 03:53 PM

The immediacy of our (human) existence is lost on most people most of the time; the only thing most folks get is glimpses, if that. Poet and essayist Robert Bly wrote about this and looked for it in others' work as well. In his book, News of the Universe: Poems of Twofold Consciousness, he lauded the writing (poems) of D.H. Lawrence for coming from the . . . raw, unadulterated now moment.

A lack of pre-occupation with the future and that (regret?) of the past probably can't be done without also an accute awareness of (y)our mortality, and what amounts to an inevitable peace in its acceptance. So there it is: The only place we can really live is right now, and in that now is the naked reality of death.

(Anyone seen my pair o' ducks?)

So Chris, I think that's pretty cool that you've visited some of that - and thanks for the reminder that it's important.

My last Cigar? Probably an isom custom-roll perfecto or a Partagas SD1 EL '04. But not on my death bed - I'll be doing something else there.

**bigwhiteash** · 03-26-2008, 03:57 PM

Originally Posted by basil

But not on my death bed - I'll be doing something else there.

Dying?

**basil** · 03-26-2008, 03:59 PM

Originally Posted by bigwhiteash

Dying?

Having sex. Maybe meditating. Well yeah, and dying.

**Cabaiguan Juan** · 03-26-2008, 04:06 PM

IU would be tempted to go Keith Richards style and smoke somthing a bit more crazy, however, since i dont have anything that would fill that bill, I would have to say...I dont know. I guess i would start chain smoking my cigars in no particular order.