If You Could Know How And When You Will Die......

Would you want to know? Would it change how you live? I'm sure it would change how you live on some level but would you want to know how and when you die and do you think it's preordained? Or do you think it would just be better to not know?

It seems to me that if you could know that info....and you could say how it would change your life.....you probably should be living your life that way anyway.

 

i would like to know

mostly so i could transfer some things and rack up my credit debt to the max (i am single and have no one they could go after for payment)


so your second part is actually not a good idea

 

Nah. I'm good with it being a surprise. I try to live with no regrets so when that day comes I hope I'm ok with how I lived my life.

 

No, I wouldn't like to know.

 

i dont wanna know when either, and i would rather die in my sleep as a total surprise .. so i dont even have to think about it, one day i just wouldn't wake up

 

That would be nice but I think everyone has at least an awareness that they are going to die weather it be within days, hours or minutes of it occurring.

 

We are all dying right now... Nobody's getting further away from it.

 

i would simply rather not know this. to me it would be a distraction from whatever enjoyment of life i might otherwise have until it happened.

also i believe that nothing is cast in stone (except mayby stone itself of course). that most of us would avoid predictable deaths only to meet others.

so not only would there be no point in knowing this, but also the down side of the enjoyment we would very likely loose by doing so.

 

That could backfire. It reminds me of a story I heard a while back about a dude who was diagnosed as being terminally ill with not very long to live. He left his wife, partied his ass off and spent a ton of money.....only to find out the doctor was wrong. Oops. I think he did win some kind of legal settlement though.

 

Ha. Legal settlement. You mean, like, he sued the doctor and the doctor had to pay all the guy's bills plus give the guy his wife back?

 

I don't remember the exact details but he got paid something out of it.

 

i can't see how i could stand that. assuming it's still a long ways off, it would be alright right now. but as the time nears, i would just have a really hard time knowing for a fact that i'm dead in 9 days, or whatever. outside of a few extreme circumstances, there's always some hope that you'll keep going beyond the expectations, and this would eliminate that hope.

knowing the exact details could bring about some other issues. like if i knew i was going to die in a car accident at 5th and main on october 8th, 2016, why couldn't i just not be in a car or anywhere near that area at that time on that date?

 

Because the laws of physics won’t allow you to deviate from the timeline.

Some set of circumstances beyond your control will place you at 5th and main on October 8, 2016



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the only set of circumstances i can think of that could possibly do that would be if you were to get arrested and happen to be in the back of a police car going through that intersection at that exact time. but then if your preordained death sentence was that you would die in an accident in a car you were driving, then i can't think of a single situation where it couldn't be avoided.

 

the laws of physics have nothing to do with "the" timeline. that is why predestiny is nonsense. the diversity of reality would almost guarantee any prediction (on the scale of future events in anyone's personal life) WOULD be deviated from. spoilers in real life become red herrings as often as they do in any well written story. some things happen more often then others and some things happen more often when other things happen first. that is the only real basis of real prediction. other then if enough people say enough things, whatever does happen, is bound to have been said by one or more of them.

(time isn't even a "line". entropy flowes in one direction, but not as any one line. everything that physically lives, its physical form ceases to function eventually. the "law of physics" called entropy predicts that. but that's all it does. and that only for physical systems and living organsims.)

 

Not again :dizzy2:

 

Wrong. Works only if you don't know.

And even then it's unclear.

 

I was given a time line and I am thankful I was as it gave me the opportunity to put my affairs in order. At the time I had two kids who were minors and there were legal issues and safe guards that needed to be in place. I also had legal issues to deal with for myself such as a power of attorney and a living will. I am really pleased that the time line came and went and it was very stressful at that time but with hindsight it also gave me a measure of peace to know that if I did die, my children were going to be legally protected.