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Re: 51 hours left to live

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Post by Titanous » Mon, Mar 07, 2011, 2:33 AM UTC

chaosmachine wrote: post #40

jedsmith wrote: post #11

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Hardly. They're fudged a bit as you say, but they're quite close to reality. Enough that I'd look at the proportion instead of the exact numbers, which is the meaning I was attempting to drive home. The numbers are fudged by a very small amount in a certain direction, based on my observation. I observed this by refreshing one of my own submissions and watching it gain a vote or lose a vote, and I knew exactly how man…

Fudged a bit ? The numbers are almost completely fictional, and get more so the higher the total. http://i.imgur.com/U8B1X.jpg Displayed numbers: 9498 Up, 6876 Down. Real numbers: 2666 Up, 140 Down. You cannot judge proportion by looking at the numbers Reddit shows.

The displayed numbers and real numbers have a two hour gap between them. This conclusion cannot be derived from the posted screenshot.

Re: 51 hours left to live

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Post by olivercameron » Mon, Mar 07, 2011, 2:48 AM UTC

rick_2047 wrote: post #10

Okey this is ridiculous!!!! First the guy who patches a software with Morse code and then this guy who would rather have a AMA with strange people before he dies. News flash people, there are actual human beings around you who you should talk to rather than computers or an anonymous crowd you do not know.

You, sir, are the ridiculous one.

Re: 51 hours left to live

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Post by statictype » Mon, Mar 07, 2011, 2:52 AM UTC

I feel like downvoting this post simply because it's so depressing. I think I just shot the rest of my day.

Re: 51 hours left to live

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Post by biot » Mon, Mar 07, 2011, 2:57 AM UTC

Mz wrote: post #43

rick_2047 wrote: post #39

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Phone calls?? Anyone?? There are plethora of people I would like to call.

Seriously: A) How are phone calls "more real" than internet conversations? B) Did you read the Reddit discussion you are criticizing? His handle is "Lucidending". He opted to go off medication in his final hours so he could be lucid and spend quality time with family before he checks out, something he was unable to do while completely fucked up on chemo and other drugs. He is spending his last hours with family and o…

   > A) How are phone calls "more real" than internet conversations?

Bandwidth. While both are real -- thus making the phrase "more real" a bit awkward -- verbal communications transmit far more information than the words being spoken and I can't imagine the amount of typing it would take to convey the missing data. In that sense, it's "more" real.

Re: 51 hours left to live

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Post by elliottcarlson » Mon, Mar 07, 2011, 3:00 AM UTC

He just created a second thread within the last 10 minutes:

http://www.reddit.com/r/IAmA/comments/fyqpi/26_hours_left_to...

Re: 51 hours left to live

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Post by louislouis » Mon, Mar 07, 2011, 3:18 AM UTC

only in death are you truly free.

Re: 51 hours left to live

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Post by burgerbrain » Mon, Mar 07, 2011, 3:40 AM UTC

rick_2047 wrote: post #89

burgerbrain wrote: post #72

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Easy to say when you're not the one dying painfully.

Easy to say when you have the balls to express that in public which others can only express through anonymous downvotes.

I hope you die slowly and painfully.

Re: 51 hours left to live

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Post by jquery » Mon, Mar 07, 2011, 4:08 AM UTC

kenjackson wrote: post #36

throwaway_2011 wrote: post #30

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My worst fear is actually not to die. I don't believe in hell and the worst that can happen is that I stop to exist. My worst fear is the process of dying itself. After watching a close family member die of cancer, that process frightens me. If I end up in a similar situation, I'll move to Oregon as well.

My worst fear is to stop existing. I can't fathom that one day I'll just be done. That's it. Not watching the world on some big screen TV. Not appreciating what I've done. Just done, and eventually no one will have ever known I was here. I used to hope that as I approached death that I'd be so fulfilled with life that I'd be ready to go. I still hope that, but I'm less convinced that it will be so. It almost seems li…

What comforts me is I believe that I will go to the same place I was before I was born. I don't know what exactly that is, but it led to me being alive. Can't be all bad. :-)

Re: 51 hours left to live

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Post by momotomo » Mon, Mar 07, 2011, 5:46 AM UTC

rick_2047 wrote: post #10

Okey this is ridiculous!!!! First the guy who patches a software with Morse code and then this guy who would rather have a AMA with strange people before he dies. News flash people, there are actual human beings around you who you should talk to rather than computers or an anonymous crowd you do not know.

Actually, IIRC, he's already spent the time with his family and dismissed them. He wanted the last moments with them to be clear and lucid, this is more of an after activity while he goes through his final hours before dying. It was a lot to do with creating good memories for his relatives, not choosing strangers over family.

Re: 51 hours left to live

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Post by [deleted] » Mon, Mar 07, 2011, 5:53 AM UTC

DanielBMarkham wrote: post #59

I found this post on reddit uncomfortable, and I'm not sure why. It's not because of death with dignity -- I'm a big fan. It's not because of not wanting to face my own mortality -- I know death awaits us all, and for me or some others it may come very soon indeed. Who knows when we will die? But something about it just didn't ring true as something I would want to make happen over and over again. I think perhaps it…

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