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ret5hd

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1. make a tontine with someone!

Reply to LuckyCharms (Original post)

Sun Dec 28, 2025, 06:28 PM

8 hrs ago

if i die first, you write mine…if you die first i’ll write yours.

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Something I tend to do a lot, as well as a confession. [View all] LuckyCharms 8 hrs ago OP

make a tontine with someone! ret5hd 8 hrs ago #1

But my worry is that... LuckyCharms 8 hrs ago #3

Worry BOSSHOG 7 hrs ago #10

How you lived your life is how you will be remembered Grim Chieftain 7 hrs ago #21

To me, is has to be in writing to be valid. LuckyCharms 7 hrs ago #22

Well that's depressing. marble falls 7 hrs ago #29

Not if you lived your life well Grim Chieftain 7 hrs ago #31

Could you write a letter to the warden, please? There's a pack of cigarettes in it for you. marble falls 7 hrs ago #32

Gladly, friend Grim Chieftain 7 hrs ago #34

Sure, we can vouch for each other! Save on a stamp. marble falls 7 hrs ago #36

HAAAAAA! LuckyCharms 7 hrs ago #37

Considering the scope of "eternity" safe to figure just about all of us will eventually get over any pique we may have. Attilatheblond 7 hrs ago #30

What if you go together? marble falls 7 hrs ago #28

I wrote mine. multigraincracker 8 hrs ago #2

Did you seriously write yours? LuckyCharms 8 hrs ago #4

Yep. Gave it to my wife to post. I read a lot multigraincracker 8 hrs ago #5

Ain't that the truth BOSSHOG 7 hrs ago #11

I'll tell you something that is kind of eating me up with guilt... LuckyCharms 7 hrs ago #12

It can be incredibly difficult to get anyone's phone number these days. PoindexterOglethorpe 5 hrs ago #41

Does it really matter since you will be dead and won't know the difference Bluestocking 8 hrs ago #6

Oh, I'll know alright. LuckyCharms 7 hrs ago #14

Have a number of dead friends who wrote theirs. cachukis 8 hrs ago #7

What a great idea. Who could write your obit. better than you? OAITW r.2.0 8 hrs ago #8

I felt your post. LuckyCharms 7 hrs ago #15

Life just sucks, sometimes. OAITW r.2.0 7 hrs ago #20

We're about the same age? I'm 67. LuckyCharms 7 hrs ago #23

Yeah, I'm turning 73, OAITW r.2.0 7 hrs ago #24

I've grown old, but I've never... LuckyCharms 7 hrs ago #25

If only the really young ones knew how juvenile we really are.... OAITW r.2.0 7 hrs ago #33

I'm online enough to where I'm trying to talk like people much younger than me... LuckyCharms 7 hrs ago #35

It's like Yogi Berra said (kinda): rsdsharp 8 hrs ago #9

When you come to a fork in a cemetary, take it? BOSSHOG 7 hrs ago #13

Nobody goes there anymore. It's too crowded. rsdsharp 7 hrs ago #16

If you don't go to your friends funeral BOSSHOG 7 hrs ago #18

I looked up my name and I'm happy to report I'm anonymous kimbutgar 7 hrs ago #17

My name is more common than i expected... LuckyCharms 7 hrs ago #19

I wrote mine, too. quaint 7 hrs ago #26

Here's to many more birthdays for you, quaint. LuckyCharms 7 hrs ago #27

An auto-obituarty. CrispyQ 6 hrs ago #38

Some decades ago I took a Thanatology class, death and dying. PoindexterOglethorpe 5 hrs ago #42

If you want something done right.... Ol Janx Spirit 5 hrs ago #39

Roger Taney* will NEVER escape his obituary..... lastlib 5 hrs ago #40

I'm a lot more concerned about my jewelry than my obit. PoindexterOglethorpe 5 hrs ago #43

If you kick off before I do, I'll be sure to write something but I'm pretty sure you won't have any opinion of it... NNadir 4 hrs ago #44