Death Bed Smoke

[ashauler]

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]

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]

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]

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]

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

Dying?

[basil]

Dying?

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

[Cabaiguan Juan]

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.