After reading through the "How would you want to die?" thread, I was kind of intrigued as to what exactly those things were that people wanted to get done before they died. So, what are the top ten things you want to accomplish before you die?

Mine are:
1. Go sky diving and cliff jumping
2. Invent something (it doesn't necessarily have to be useful) and get a patent for it
3. Fall in love and get married (possibly have kids)
4. Learn how to whistle
5. Make enough money to successfully support myself and pay my parents back
6. Travel the world and visit places like Turkey, India, Alaska, and France
7. Eat dog (just for the bragging rights of saying I did it)
8. Write a published work
9. Ride a motorcycle
10. Travel across the country to visit vineyards and taste wine

 

1. Complete military training.
2. Find Osama Bin Laden.
3. Shoot him on live TV.
4. Win the lottery.
5. Become financially independent.
6. Fuck someone famous.
7. Blow something huge up.
8. Scream Yippie kay yay m-fucker while spraying on automatic.
9. Write a book.
10. Get a better life-plan.

 

1. Complete an Ironman triathlon.
2. Be named a Fellow of the IEEE or the American Physical Society; become a member of the National Academy of Sciences.
3. See my son finish college.
4. Get a novel published.
5. Become fluent in Mandarin.
6. Visit space; barring that, take a parabolic flight.
7. Travel--so many places I wish to visit, but haven't yet.
8. See fusion for energy purposes realized.
9. Learn to appreciate opera.
10. Chef school. (I'm a decent cook, but burn water compared with my friend, a CIA-trained chef).

 

1. Learn to fly
2. Directly save a life
3. Get something named after me (from an achievement, not because of money)
4. Get certified for scuba diving
5. See a penguin in Antarctica
6. Enjoy a foreign language enough to become fluent in it
7. Cook in a restaurant
8. Be in a weightless environment
9. Be completely free of debt
10. Really, really like the place I live

 

For the record kal dog tastes fucking horrible

Alright my list

1. Go to Antarctica
2. Blow something up with a tank
3. Go see my favorite show being filmed
4. Go diving with whales
5. Be on a nuclear submarine when it dives
6. Fly a fighter jet
7. Write a book
8. Go hunting with a newspaper crossbow
9. Buy a Gemini 33 Catamaran boat
10. Sail down to the Carribean on the boat and retire

 

1. Be a ninja
2. Visit the Poles
3. Write the next great programming language
4. Build the next OS
5. Find someone that I want to marry and have kids with
6. Live within my means
7. Build something like a house. I dont know
8. Make someone's life Awesome.
9. Save a life
10. Be Awesome.

 

1. Get a Phd
2. Get a SJD
3. Clerk at the Supreme Court
4. Be appointed to the Supreme Court.
5. Watch humanity expand to the stars (colonize space)
6. Get married
7. write a book
8. be named to the Order of Canada
9. Win a medal
10.Make more than $100,000 / year

 

Hola, me llamo Jose. >.>

Sorry. Anyway, the things I would do before I die and not necessarily in any particular order are;

1. Go to the Heart of Africa, wait for the sun to rise and play the opening from Lion King on some giant speakers. What, you wouldn't?
2. Travel, lots of countries/places I want to see.
3. Learn a language.
4. Skydive.
5. Write/Publish a novel.
6. Achieve something significant.
7. Draw/write a manga.
8. Own a hamster(neglected childhood)

Eh, thats all I can think of off the top of my head. I'll edit if I think of two more.

 

1. 5-hour work week
2. Pay It Forward in a huge way.
3. Write a screenplay
4. Build a website on par with FMyLife.
5. Contribute to the search for viabale "green" fuels.
6. Play for the Liberian (or) US National soccer team.
7. Be a better father than mine is.
8. Pilot's license.
9. Have a woman propose to me, and mean it. Doesn't mean I'll marry her, but still.
10. Get my brother to care about something other than money.

 

1) Fall in love, have 2 kids.
2) Meet Tiger Woods and/or Roger Federer (maybe even at the same time?? ).
3) Enact educational reform of some kind.
4) See a Barcelona game live.
5) Watch the Olympics live.
6) Become a partner at a litigation firm.
7) Teach 6th graders for a few years.
8 ) Learn to golf.
9) Enjoy retirement.
10) Learn to swim.

 

This is actually fairly easy to do as long as your not trying for jumbo jets or anything, I got mine in a touch over 3 months.

 

1. Graduate Law School
2. Join the JAG core
3. Publish a book
4. Get a PHD
5. Help shape Public Policy
6. Master a second language/ live in a foreign country
7. Be named a US Ambassador
8. Have a kid
9. Become half the man my father is
10. See the world change for the better

 

Hmm, interesting...

1. Run a marathon
2. Sing on stage in front of a crowd larger than one hundred people
3. Get an MBA
4. Finish my electricity generator project
5. Write and publish a novel and finish all my fanfiction projects currently in progress
6. Light and throw a good Molotov Cocktail
7. Speak before either the US Congress, Senate, or Canadian Parliament
8. Travel into space
9. Find a way to make a GOOD Warhammer 40k movie
10. Be happy

 

1. Become president.
2. Be filthy rich.
3. Have an orgy of 5+ women.
4. Create the first servant robot.
5. Further continuing my richiness.
6. Slap the shit out of The_Lord_Of_Chaos
7. Pay nonjon to write more lulzy fics.
8. Buy DLP from the Admins.
9. Not have to work.
10. Not getting booted from IRC by Xiph0 for stupid shit.

 

1) Hike the Appalachian Trail in one go.
2) Visit pre-radioactive Seoul
3) Person #21412521339 to suggest 'write a book' but it's true.
4) Not have kids
5) Retire before 50

I'd continue, but the rest would either be ridiculously obvious that they don't count, things I could easily work towards accomplishing now if I really gave a shit, or things that aren't so much goals as things that would be kinda cool.

 

pffft. That's just the teenage male talking.

Scary thought: In 10 years, the vast majority of people on DLP will have children.

 

1. Own a library of at least 1,000 books.
2. Write my own book/series.
3. Get a job paying over £100,000 per annum. (being realistic, otherwise I'd go for millions)
4. Attain political office.
5. Own a supercomputer.
6. Live to see humanity colonise Mars.
7. Live to see AIDS/cancer cured.
8. Marry, have kids.
9. Go into space.
10. Get a PhD.