Do you want to know when your natural death occurs?
Do you want to know the exact date and year your natural death occurs? So you can maybe do all the stuff you want to do within that time before it's too late, or maybe prepare for your death etc.?
How about if you would get cancer? Would you want to know how long you will have to live?
Personally, I don't think I want to know it in either cases. I want death to come as unexpected as possible. What about the rest of you?
PS: Sorry to start yet another thread on death, but this has been on my mind for quite some time.
That would kill the joy of life - i would be so depressed at the prospect that i know when my existance would sease to exist that i would probably not be able to enjoy it as much as i do every single second of my life.
So no - if i die tomorrow - then im dead, I got to experience and meet some great people in this life time.
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"Can you imagine what it feels like to have someone sit you down and tell you that you're dying? The gravity of that, hmm? Then the clock's ticking for you. In a split second your awe is cracked open. You look at things differently - smell things differently. You savor everything be it a glass of water or a walk in the park. But most people have the luxury of not knowing when that clock's going to go off. And the irony of it is that that keeps them from really living their life. It keeps them drinking that glass of water but never really tasting it."
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and when it is now, it doesn't really matter cause I'm gonna die.
what can I do about that? nothing.
what benefit is this knowledge? nothing. I like to think I am already living like every second counts. Don't always achieve this, admittedly, but it is an ideal.
Holy Hell yeah tell me! Heck can I expand on even death not caused by natural reasons? Cuz I would be a man of NO FEAR When you can limit the amount of risk ie....calculated risk then I am all about it, most descisions I make today and everyday are based on that calculated risk.
Yes. I mean, everybody dies, at some point. The only question is when.
And I don't see why it would spoil life. I mean, it's not like finding out who's going to win the cricket/superbowl/world cup or whatever. We are all going to die. Everyone of us. It's nothing special. It depends on the when. And even if it were a surprise, well, unless there is an afterlife your dead and won't know, so it's a pretty bad surprise. And I think such information could be valuable.
I like to know when my classes end, or when I am going to finish up work for the day, so that I can better plan, and I'll look at life the same. If I knew I was going to die at 3:30 am on the 5th of December 2072, well, I'll take out loans that I don't have to pay back until the day after, I'll know the time I have to do what I want, what I need to do. I'll know what can be put of, and what can't be. Really death would be a surprise I could do without.
I think it would add flavour to life, a necessity, a drive towards a known, knowable and unavoidable destination, the only question then would be how you get there, the path you travel. The journey is the important part, the end is nothing.
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Last edited by Imperial_Samura on Nov 20th, 2005 at 04:18 AM
Knowing death's date would cause me to lose my fear that death will take me by surprise. If I knew when, I would know what to do and when, like that guy said. I would be able to live life better.
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Nov 15th, 2005 03:57 PM
Very emotional there.
When you can limit the amount of risk ie....calculated risk then I am all about it, most descisions I make today and everyday are based on that calculated risk.
