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The Chewbacca Defense



Joined: 29 May 2004
Location: The ROK and a hard place
PostPosted: Wed Aug 17, 2005 5:24 am    Post subject: 24 hours Reply with quote
Hypothetical situation.

You live and teach in Korea. You go to your local GP or whatever for a check-up. He/She sends you to a specialist and he/she tells you that you have 24 hours to live.

What do you do? WHAT DO YOU DO?!?
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Bulsajo



Joined: 16 Jan 2003
PostPosted: Wed Aug 17, 2005 5:41 am    Post subject: Reply with quote
Get a second opinion.
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Corporal



Joined: 25 Jan 2003
PostPosted: Wed Aug 17, 2005 5:48 am    Post subject: Reply with quote
Yah, he's probably just jealous of your white studliness. Racist jerk!
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keithinkorea



Joined: 17 Mar 2004
PostPosted: Wed Aug 17, 2005 6:58 am    Post subject: Re: 24 hours Reply with quote
The Chewbacca Defense wrote:
Hypothetical situation.

You live and teach in Korea. You go to your local GP or whatever for a check-up. He/She sends you to a specialist and he/she tells you that you have 24 hours to live.

What do you do? WHAT DO YOU DO?!?


I'd murder the doctor and shoot the messenger. Then I'd probably just go to the pub and hang out, play pool, write my will and buy everyone drinks. I might even rob a bank for kicks with one of those almost real looking bb guns you can get in Itaewon. Korea would be a shoddy place to spend your last 24 hours, I probably couldn't even get back home to see my friends and family so I'd have to spend the time with my GF (whom I love dearly) but it would be a very depressing 24 hours, I dont think I'd tell her till I only had an hour or so left.

I'd just stay out and write letters to people until I died, thanking them for being special people in my life. I might take a little hike up a mountain and die up there.
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joe_doufu



Joined: 09 May 2005
Location: Elsewhere
PostPosted: Wed Aug 17, 2005 7:59 am    Post subject: Reply with quote
I don't know the source but I heard that there was a study where, when doctors told people they had a certain number of weeks or months left to live, something like 50% of the people died on the exact day predicted. The point was the mind's effect on health... many just held out until that day to give up hope. The moral... never tell somebody how long they have to live, doc!
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buddy bradley



Joined: 24 Aug 2003
Location: The Beyond
PostPosted: Wed Aug 17, 2005 8:01 am    Post subject: Reply with quote
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What do you do? WHAT DO YOU DO?!?


I'll eat kimchi, pray, and prepare for the next day at work, like I always do.
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trevorcollins



Joined: 02 Jul 2004
PostPosted: Wed Aug 17, 2005 8:21 am    Post subject: Reply with quote
lie down for a few hours to get over the shock.
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The King of Kwangju



Joined: 10 Feb 2003
Location: New York City
PostPosted: Wed Aug 17, 2005 8:49 am    Post subject: Reply with quote
This actually kinda happened to me in Korea, but I had longer than 24 hours.

I quit my job and flew back to Canada with the tests. In Canada they looked at the tests and said "where did you get these? they're kinda blurry." They redid my tests and found nothing wrong.

I went back to Korea and was back teaching in time for the next semester.
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Flossie



Joined: 19 Feb 2005
Location: Up to my nose in the sweet summer smells of sewerage in Seoul
PostPosted: Wed Aug 17, 2005 8:54 am    Post subject: Reply with quote
One poster mentioned writing your will. As a bit of an aside, I have just finished doing that, and while I was updating everything I found out that property I have in Korea is not covered by my NZ will. So I needed to make another one in Korea to cover it as the laws are different. Since I only have money here and basically nothing else, I just sent the money home and saved some confusion Laughing But definitely worth bearing in mind if you have any significant assets over here.
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buddy bradley



Joined: 24 Aug 2003
Location: The Beyond
PostPosted: Wed Aug 17, 2005 8:55 am    Post subject: Reply with quote
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But definitely worth bearing in mind if you have any significant assets over here.


I have an Armani shirt. I'm at my wit's end just thinking about it, and my imminent death.

Help!
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