I asked this of a friend while hiking the other day in jest, but who knows? I joked that I probably wouldn’t have a lot of time, and given I would probably be in shock… the best I could get out might be, “Well, fuck.”

How about you?

  • AnchoriteMagus@lemmy.worldEnglish
    87·
    5 days ago

    If there’s one thing I know from every dicey situation I’ve ever been in, including in the military, it’s that you never know what your brain will pull out of its darkest reaches when you least expect it.

    Statistically most common last words are “Oh shit.”, but you never know.

    • flandish@lemmy.world
      23·
      5 days ago

      nice thing i always remember in the fd: if it’s going to kill you, you’d be dead. (hazmat, fire, etc) So don’t worry and do what you’re there to do.

      in the case of OP, relaxing and dying is probably all i’d do. i have people “up there” waiting for me anyway. 🤷‍♀️

      • AnchoriteMagus@lemmy.worldEnglish
        301·
        5 days ago

        I remember when I was in the Navy, I wasn’t paying attention once and stood up into a bundle of cables running along the overhead. Part of it sliced my scalp open and blood was pouring down my face. I stood there completely flabbergasted with my mind an utter and complete blank, and the only thing that came out of my mouth, completely unprompted, was “Shit in God’s beard!”

        No idea why. I had never said it before or ever since. Brains are weird.