A large number of magnoliareporter.com readers won’t take a fatal diagnosis on faith.
Starting Friday, we invited readers to select one of eight responses to the following question:
“You are told that you have six months to a year to live, and that medical treatment may extend that timeline slightly. What are you most likely to do?”
The results:
Get a second opinion, 61 votes, 39.1 percent.
Do everything possible to take care of personal and financial matters, 32 votes, 20.51 percent.
Accept the diagnosis and work toward quality time, and not quantity, 29 votes, 18.58 percent.
Pay more attention to spiritual matters, 13 votes, 8.33 percent.
Fight to extend my life as long as possible, 12 votes, 7.69 percent.
Make sure to accomplish things on my bucket list, 4 votes, 2.56 percent.
Settle old scores, 3 votes, 1.92 percent.
Atone for past mistakes, 2 votes, 1.28 percent.
Total votes: 156.
We asked readers to answer the same question in February 2014. These were the results:
Get a second opinion, 81 votes.
Accept the diagnosis and work toward quality time, and not quantity, 43 votes
Do everything possible to take care of personal and financial matters, 28 votes.
Fight to extend my life as long as possible, 17 votes.
Make sure to accomplish things on my bucket list, 10 votes.
Pay more attention to spiritual matters, 8 votes.
Settle old scores, 1 vote.
Atone for past mistakes, 1 vote.
Total votes: 189
magnoliareporter.com online polls are not scientific. They are conducted for the information and entertainment of our readers.
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