your last day

 When will your last day be?

Sometimes people know that today is their last day. The doctor comes in the room, sits on the side of your bed, and says we've done everything we can do, today is your last day.

But my guess is that in general people don't know that today is the last day. People that get old know that the end is near, but just how near is never clear. People that really have accidents sometimes don't have any clue that they're just seconds away from their last day. But I've had many experiences in my life or I thought wow this might be it. I just did something really stupid or some crazy sequence of events has occurred that leads me to think this could be it. And it seems reasonable that lots of people have these kinds of experiences. And now you're taking a risk, and you know that there is some possibility that you won't be here tomorrow. There are many athletic sports like this, snow skiing, water skiing, mountain climbing, even swimming, or rafting. But since the goal of these is to have fun we don't think of them as being death-defying experiences, even though there is some small intention to defy death.