I wouldn't want to know. Maybe if at all, I'd like to know the general time, like "between 2009-2011 type thing, not like sometime in march. Even still, I think I'd go crazy knowing.
If it was an option, I'd like to know. Not that it would make that much of a difference, but it might spur me onto finishing some things that I otherwise would put on the long finger.
Depends on the circumstances... how much time, quality, etc.. A good point has been made about tying up loose ends and such... as far as living the remaining time to the max- if I'm bedridden about all I'll be busy doing is dying... not sure knowing would do me any good... suspecting strongly on my own leaves a tiny corner of hope and might allow me to experience some degree of happiness in my final days and weeks. Knowing of ones impending death suggests that one already is living at a reduced capacity.
Loose ends is why I would want to have advanced warning...my friends mother was able to clear up some family issues much easier without being held back by false hopes of recovery.Everybody had a fair chance to say their peace.
i don`t know actually. i don`t know how i will react if somebody tells me i have a week to live. i guess at first i`ll be in a great panic and then i wll realize i don`t give a shit coz its a lost cause anyway. so ill probably smoke and drink and fuck everything that moves, ill try to rob some kind of huge corporation and go to die in a coffee shop in Amsterdam. but i think i will like to know so i could try to do the things i have always wanted to do before i go. i think the knowledge of this will make me all that i`ve never been and give me the courage to do do everything, even if its just for a week.
You do make an excellent point. Death is an inevitable end to life and it is going to happen to each one of us eventually. Perhaps in a sense knowing might offer me a chance to go out with some grace and show to people that death isn't anything to be afraid of. I didn't answer the poll because I'm not sure what my answer is.