50 Things To Do After You Die [Post-Mortem Bucket List]

We all have lists, especially the western culture, we love To-do lists. Everyone have their own bucket lists, things they think are a must-do before dying. I personally, don’t have one, first because I’m not good with lists, second there would be too many things on that list that I wouldn’t know where to start. I read this list (See below) on another blog and thought it was a very interesting idea. I didn’t write the list below and I think there are some items that are very irrelevant, others don’t translate very well and others I don’t necessarily agree with, but it’s pretty funny nonetheless.

I think the question of what is it going to be like after we die must bother everyone on this planet one way or another, if you think about it, we will spend way more time dead than alive. We get so focused about this short and temporary life that we give very little thought to life after death which is a more permanent and lasting condition. On the other I don’t think we should put too much thought about life after death either, I think it was Socrates who said something like “When I’m around death is not and when death is around I’m not”.

Whatever your religion, philosophy, belief or the lack of it, one thing is certain: We will all kick the bucket sooner or later. So, my question is: Do you have a Bucket List for after you die?

I Like the following quote from Socrates:

“To fear death, my friends, is only to think ourselves wise, without being wise: for it is to think that we know what we do not know. For anything that men can tell, death may be the greatest good that can happen to them: but they fear it as if they knew quite well that it was the greatest of evils. And what is this but that shameful ignorance of thinking that we know what we do not know?”

50 Things To Do After You Die

1. Question if there is life before death.

2. Prove the existence of god.

3. Scare at least one person at midnight, .

4. Stop believing in ghosts.

5. Depending on where you are at, go on a vacation to hell, otherwise (if you were a bad person), spend a few days of vacation in heaven.

6. Haunt a house.

7. Wait for the final judgement.

8. Think about how all your money is worth nothing.

9. Miss your iPod.

10. Move objects in the real world, for no reason whatsoever, just for pleasure of it. It might not be easy, you must practice a lot.

11. Stop worrying about being overweight.

12. Talk with Einstein about the relativity of time and scold him for helping create the atomic bomb.

13. Forget about lists of things to do before dying.

14. Listen to a heavenly choir.

15. Reflect on how absurd the phrase “I think, therefore I am” is.

16. Stop cutting yourself.

17. Talk with your dead relatives. Be nice to your uncle you always hated.

18. Forgive.

19. Walk through a few walls.

20. Fly. To write this post I asked several friends for suggestions and about 4 of them said Flying in the first place. I had no idea that the dead could fly.

21. Use the phrase: “Buy one death.”

22. Stop your Internet addiction.

23. See the naked woman of your dreams. Careful, she must be alive, otherwise you can cause a big problem in the prevailing system.

24. Tell Judas he was a son of a *****.

25. Try to experience reincarnation.

26. You can try swearing, but expect consequences.

27. Read the poem “Instantes” and ask Borges how does it feel to have written so many wonderful things and be remembered for something he did not write. Hopefully he will respond he is not the author.

28. Chat with Klimt, Picasso, Dali and Botticelli, ask their opinion on Photoshop.

29. Experience an exorcism in first person.

30. Quit smoking, it no longer makes sense to kill yourself.

31. Organize the ultimate football [soccer] game:
Team A: Zamora (ESP), Giacinto Facchetti (ITA), Lucien Laurent (FRA), Luis Felipe Monti (ARG / ITA), Bobby Moore (ENG), George Best (ENG), Garrincha (BRA), Ferenc Puskás (HUN ), Sándor Kocsis (HUN), Just Fontaine (FRA), Guillermo Stabile (ARG)

Team B: Lev Yashin (RUS), Obdulio Varela (URU), Stanley Matthews (ENG), Fritz Walter (GER), Giuseppe Meazza (ITA), Helmut Rahn (GER), Didier Waldir Pereira (BRA), Juan Alberto Schiaffino ( URU), Victoriano Santos Iriarte (URU), Matthias Sindelar (AUS), Josef Bican (AUS / CHZ)

32. Play the Ouija Board like you never ever did before.

33. Find out if Elvis and Jim Morrison are really dead.

34. Find out which religion was right. Pray to God it wasn’t the atheists.

35. Meditate about what Confucius said: “If you still do not know life, how could it be possible to know death?”.

36. Travel in time. It happened similar to “fly”, many people who had been scientifically surveyed ensures that while dead you can break time, and best of all, it’s almost impossible that you can generate some paradoxes.

37. Try to communicate with a medium.

38. Resolve some famous crime.

39. Dine with Jesus and the apostles. Probably have to wait an eternity for an appointment, taking into account the large number of dead people who want to do the same.

40. Meet someone famous in your same condition. It may be easier if the personality has been dead for quite a while, you won’t have to stand in line.

41. Create your own chapter of Dead Poets Society.

42. Forget about the iPhone. You can communicate telepathically, that’s what my friends who want to Fly and Travel in time tells me. Add: establish telepathic communication with the world of the living.

43. See dead people.

44. Communicate with your living partner and make a vase of clay.

45. Ask Moises whether it was true that the commandments were in fact 15.

46. Forget about visiting Marilyn Monroe. The waiting list is longer than for religious personalities. One that is modest and accessible is St. Francis of Assisi.

47. Be compassionate to the vampires.

48. Question why the living decide who the saints are, there is nothing democratic about it.

49. Say Beetlejuice 3 times.

50. Although it might be disgusting, try the ectoplasm.

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