What Do You Want to Do Before You Die?

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Tue, 09/09/2008 - 7:00am by DearSugar

I just came across this great website asking a very poignant question: What do you want to do before you die? The inspiration behind this project was sparked by "a passion to get people to think about (and act upon) what is really important in their lives through this simple, very straight-forward question." Nicole and ks, the co-curators, have collected numerous photographs asking each participant to fill in the blank “Before I die I want to . . .” on the white section of their Polaroid pic, and they plan to keep in touch in order to see if participants have accomplished their goals. I absolutely love this concept, so let me throw out the same question to all of you: What do you want to do before you die?

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Martini Rossi [+]

exactly that!

I want to have a baby before I die.
Im 26, lately Ive been thinking about having child alot...like daily!! I think its because my co-worker friend is currently pregnant with twins and thats allllll we talk about... but yea, I def want to have my own baby before I kick the bucket.

Tue, 09/09/2008 - 7:02am Report Comment

Lovely_1 [+]

Awww I saw this website last week and I still don't know!

I want too many things!
-have a happy healthly family,
-not have to worry about money,
-travel and experiance cultures,
-be in love Smiling

Tue, 09/09/2008 - 7:06am Report Comment

Shopaholichunny [+]

Get Married to my boyfriend (still not sure about children)
Travel more to all the countries that are [still] on my list
Be financially stable
Get over my Fear of Heights
Get into the FBI
etc etc. Smiling

Tue, 09/09/2008 - 7:20am Report Comment

sonya ina [+]

What I'd like to do before I die:

- Visit every continent
- Have a baby

Tue, 09/09/2008 - 7:20am Report Comment

Marni7 [+]

Same here Martini, I never thought i'll have baby fever..but I just turned 24 and I am secretly itching Sad

I want to have babies
Go to Egypt
Attend AT LEAST one fashion week show
Buy my parents a house

Tue, 09/09/2008 - 7:21am Report Comment

Shopaholichunny [+]

Oooo Marni I forgot about the Fashion Week shows. i would LOVE to attend one too! Woohoo

Tue, 09/09/2008 - 7:27am Report Comment

Marni7 [+]

I know Shop! and fashion week ALWAYS falls on my bday week lol..someone needs to give me a ticket as a present one day Eye-wink

Tue, 09/09/2008 - 7:33am Report Comment

RosaDilia [+]

Before I die...
- I want to make sure I did good on earth. I don't want to have to explain anything before I reach the pearly gates!

Tue, 09/09/2008 - 7:39am Report Comment

jgulli3 [+]

Visit every baseball stadium!

Tue, 09/09/2008 - 7:42am Report Comment

Seka21 [+]

Spend a whole years paycheck on a diamond ring (i have more than one engagement rings but i want something unbelievable to leave my kid when i have one)

Get married

Get another tattoo

Live by the sea, buy a new house/fla & decorate it MY WAY

Morbid.. but die in Croatia in the place i feel the safest

Tue, 09/09/2008 - 7:57am Report Comment

CreateMagic [+]

-travel to Greece, Italy, Australia, and the US west coast.
-get married
-have kids

Tue, 09/09/2008 - 8:06am Report Comment

GlowingMoon [+]

See the auroras in Alaska.

Tue, 09/09/2008 - 8:13am Report Comment

keeper13 [+]

to be happy, and to know I did ok here. sounds simple right?

Tue, 09/09/2008 - 8:13am Report Comment

keeper13 [+]

to be happy, and to know I did ok here. sounds simple right?

Tue, 09/09/2008 - 8:13am Report Comment

KimBurnett [+]

Travel this country in an RV on Route 66 and around.

Tue, 09/09/2008 - 8:37am Report Comment

miriah15 [+]

-Go to Egypt
-Work in or run a cat shelter
-Have mind blowingly orgasmic sex with my guy for the rest of my days!
-NOT have kids

Tue, 09/09/2008 - 9:13am Report Comment

a nonny mouse [+]

I love communal projects like this. It's sort of like an inverse *post secret* -- far more joyful (and identity affirming), focusing upon the future rather than the past or present.

Tue, 09/09/2008 - 9:33am Report Comment

millarci [+]

I agree keeper13. All I really want is to be happy. Smiling

Tue, 09/09/2008 - 10:22am Report Comment

designerel [+]

Great question!

Hmmm. I want to live in a major city, like NYC or London. Right in the middle of it all. Just for a little while.

Tue, 09/09/2008 - 10:31am Report Comment

sundaygreen [+]

1. live in paris
2. run a successful business
3. start a family
4. go blonde (maybe)

Tue, 09/09/2008 - 11:24am Report Comment

HeidiMD [+]

I want to do a few tours with Doctors Without Borders. I would like a few more years of experience (and I'd like to be married for a few years, too), but my fiance is completely supportive and, if we can make it work, he says he will find a place to live around my station.

Tue, 09/09/2008 - 11:37am Report Comment

j2e1n9 [+]

Baby, and then take it all over the world.

Tue, 09/09/2008 - 11:59am Report Comment

Jude C [+]

Have a big, happy, healthy family, and travel all over the world on an unlimited budget.

Tue, 09/09/2008 - 1:03pm Report Comment

kluster86 [+]

* Travel to europe and explore london, germany, and amsterdam
* write and live the life of a bum while still getting paid a nice amount of money
* have the greatest orgasm ever, and be content with having semi mind blowing sex for the rest of my life because i know that no man is spectacular all the time.
* fall in love
* have a baby
* be happy

Tue, 09/09/2008 - 1:16pm Report Comment

princess_eab [+]

-get married and have babies
-live in a different country (again)
-travel: everywhere! would love to go to India and Greece
-publish a book
-be happy in whatever career I end up doing
-finish my PhD (hopefully that'll happen within 3 years)

Tue, 09/09/2008 - 1:35pm Report Comment

austerity [+]

Do something important that achieves some level of fame. Inspire an article in a leading magazine, for example.

Oh and find The One of course *sigh*.

Tue, 09/09/2008 - 3:26pm Report Comment

elmer7887 [+]

heal people
like someone else said, go blonde
try to do my part to change someone's life, as cliche as it sounds......

this website was one of the best ive been too...definitely the best one dearsugar has shown me...its inspirational

Tue, 09/09/2008 - 6:06pm Report Comment

pippins_halfling [+]

I want to live in Europe.
Fall in love with someone who will keep my life interesting.
Travel A LOT.

Tue, 09/09/2008 - 8:34pm Report Comment

californiagirlx7 [+]

I have to agree with the picture that you posted, Dear. I would like to have a baby, first and foremost. But I would also love to travel a lot and meet the man of my dreams, then marry him. Then hopefully that baby will come next Laughing out loud

Wed, 09/10/2008 - 3:27am Report Comment

fuzzles [+]

Chef Gordon Ramsay. Eye-wink

Wed, 09/10/2008 - 3:16pm Report Comment

Jude C [+]

Me too, fuzzles!

Wed, 09/10/2008 - 3:20pm Report Comment

Jude C [+]

Oh, and also Sheriff Bullock from Deadwood. Gotta love a character whose childhood nickname was "Sloth."

(I say the character's name, not the actor's name, because Timothy Olyphant has been sort of gross to me in every other role I've seen him in.)

Wed, 09/10/2008 - 3:30pm Report Comment

opisnowpro [+]

Have a happy and healthy family and travel the whole world!

Wed, 09/10/2008 - 7:51pm Report Comment

Beastiegirl5 [+]

It sounds selfish, but I've only truly been in love one time, and I'd like to do it once more before I die. And hopefully, make it permanent.

Thu, 09/11/2008 - 8:26pm Report Comment

rossinaross [+]

I want to get married to my boyfriend
And I want babys Smiling

Fri, 09/12/2008 - 1:15pm Report Comment

C a n d i [+]

Okay, so still not sure on the baby front...

But I do want to:

Learn a new language
Go to Italy
Get married
Have a career I love
Buy a house

and just...be happy and make others happy...

Sat, 09/13/2008 - 4:39am Report Comment

rabidmoon [+]

Um...

1)Spend a week or two travelling Japan.
2)Sleep in an ice hotel.
3)Get my Finnish language down 100%.
4)Go into outer space...I have wanted this since I was a kid,
to see it, and see the Earth from space.
5)Own a non-petrol powered automobile.
6)Live long enough to see 100 years.
7)Get back into a totally creative field of work.

(and LOL ..Fuzzles, ffs. hehehe)

Sun, 09/14/2008 - 4:28am Report Comment

JaimeLeah526 [+]

I want to learn Spanish and guitar. I want to volunteer for Habitat for Humanity. I want to love my husband to the best of my ability and never get divorced.

Tue, 09/30/2008 - 9:43pm Report Comment

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