3 years to live: 'Be knighted by the Queen!'

We asked readers what they would do if they had only three years to live life to the fullest? While the contest closes on November 23, here are some interesting responses. And keep them coming, because the best entries win prizes from rediff.com

Santosh Kalluri has the following ideas in mind:

1. Travel to all the 7 wonders.

2. Climb Mt Everest.

3. Be a celebrity for a day.

4. Ride in a Rolls Royce Phantom.

5. Sky Dive/ free fall from 1500 feet.

6. Become CM of my state and fire all the corrupt MLAs.

7. Be the First Indian 'tourist' to go to the moon.

8. Be knighted by the Queen.

9. Win a million Pound lottery.

10. Donate everything to the poor/ needy before I die.

Twenty five-year-old Gautam Shetty's plans are as follows:

1. Finally present my mother with the pearl necklace she's been craving for almost 10 years.

2. Resign from my job and on my last day shoot at my boss with a water pistol.

3. Visit a circus.

4. Organise a trip to Pondicherry with all my friends.

5. Visit an old age home and interact with the residents to get a feel of what being forgotten by the world feels like.

6. Eat caviar in a Michelin star restaurant.

7. Get a tattoo done on my left arm.

8. Arrive unannounced with flowers at the doorstep of my Swedish friend's house who I haven't seen in two years.

9. Visit school one last time and embrace all the teachers that ever taught me.

10. Write a humorous account of how I will meet my end and my journey into the other world with the Grim Reaper.

Dheeraj Tewani, 22, from New Delhi, split his list in two. Here is, as he puts it, the 'serious stuff':

1. Make a graduate level degree a prerequisite for all politicians. And also make classes on ethics mandatory for them.

2. India is 113th among other countries on the gender equality list. This will be my highest priority. Men should be taught to respect women better. Rape should be considered equivalent to murder.

3. Hang Narendra Modi, George Bush etc (it's a long list) for mass murders and genocides.

4. Save Tibet from China's clutches.

5. Have conversations with Noam Chomsky, Bill Gates, Amartya Sen, the Dalai Lama, Gabriel Garcia Marquez, CK Prahalad, Eddie Vedder, Jerry Sienfeld etc. And if I can bring back the dead, add George Orwell, M K Gandhi, Jawaharlal Nehru and Indira Gandhi to that list too.

And some fun stuff...

6. Try a different sexual position each night for those 3 years.

7. Date Yana Gupta and Sheetal Malhar...together!

8. Buy a bookstore (I love books), a 5 star hotel (I love good food and comfortable beds), the whole Barista Chain in Delhi (I love coffee) and a private helicopter (no traffic!).

9. Make beer as cheap as water.

10. Buy the most high-end computer and the fastest Internet connection possible.

And finally, Sumit Raina, 27, from New Delhi shares his ideas:

1. Experience the world from the top of Mount Everest.

2. Take a deep dive into the middle of the Pacific Ocean and touch the bottom of the sea.

3. Take a space tour and experience weightlessness.

4. Try sky diving, paragliding, water rafting and bungee jumping at least once.

5. Write a script for a film and direct that film with Aamir in the lead.

6. Build a muscular body like Hrithik Roshan.

7. Celebrate new year at Times Square, New York.

8. Work one month for Google Inc.

9. Meet in person with AR Rehman ,APJ Abul Kalam and Bill Gates.

10. Pray to God, if ever decides to recreate earth, never make anyone poor.