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Copy Clerk  Posts: 52 Joined: 5 Jan 2009     | |
Gone Gonzo  Posts: 2491 Joined: 29 Mar 2008    | I already know that when I die i turn into David Tennant, so im not that worried about how |
Infamous Scribbler  Posts: 621 Joined: 29 Jul 2008    | Okay, haven't read these 3 pages but I'll just say it: If someone let me know the exact date and time I was going to die they'd need to speak today's date and the current time, then shoot me in the head. Anything else is pure nonsense. There is no fate but what we make for ourselves. |
Muckraker  Posts: 240 Joined: 24 Dec 2008     | I avoid death at all costs. The only way that sucker could EVER catch me is if I had no idea he was coming. |
Copy Clerk  Posts: 81 Joined: 4 Jan 2009    | I think it would be a serious head screw to know. One side of me is saying I'd love to know how and when I will kick the bucket, but the other half is screaming at me never to ask the question. I think I would rather live in blessed ignorance and just enjoy what I have. Death doesn't play a huge part in how I act. There just isn't the fear in me. Why fear something that I cannot stop or control in any way? I accepted death as inevitable a long time ago, so I just don't think about it. It will happen one day, and when it does, great. I'll be floating down a tunnel somewhere beating the demons heads in with their own pitch forks or trying to talk myself out of plucking one of the angels feathers out to see if they feel it. I believe I strayed a bit there, but I stand by it. In short, no, I wouldn't want to know. And I would probably try and kill the person with that kind of knowledge. Knowledge is power and that kind of power should be reserved for some kind of almighty immortal power...Or a starfish. |
Gone Gonzo  Posts: 1685 Joined: 10 Oct 2008  | Knowing when I was going to die would spoil my life as I know it. Not knowing gives me hope that I will die at 80+ years of age of an aneurysm in my sleep. Just go to sleep and never wake up, that is the way to go. |
Beat Writer  Posts: 146 Joined: 3 Sep 2008   |
What would you do if you were unable to achieve certain things before you died, even despite knowing the exact time and date, etc.? Would that not bring about more sorrow and regret? Ignorance is bliss. |
Gone Gonzo Posts: 1685 Joined: 10 Oct 2008 |
Yah, and what if they found out they were going to die that day? Or next week? Knowing such a thing would suck monkey balls. Damned straight ignorance is bliss. |
Pulitzer Laureate  Posts: 931 Joined: 17 Sep 2008  | I wouldn't want to know for that fact that I may try to act different to my usual self or do something that I wouldn't like rock climb. This may not be seen as a bad thing but I would want to live the way I always have and not not alter that because of my death is approaching. Point being that I don't want my normal routine changed because I think I haven't done enough in life. |
Beat Writer  Posts: 177 Joined: 10 Feb 2008   | I said no, but the truth is I don't really care. If I got given a choice about whether or not to know, I decline, but if told anyway I wouldn't care. I try not to worry about things I can't change, be they past, present or future. The thing that strikes me about this kind of question is that people have and will answer 'yes, so I can live life to the full in the meantime.' Surely you'd live life to the full anyway, right? I know I try to have as much fun as possible, and never take anything too seriously. It seems strange to me that it takes death to make some people realise this. Not wanting to get into an existential or religious debate, but that's part of the reason I'm an atheist; I don't like the idea of living for another life. This is the only one I know I've got, and I'll be fucked if I'm not gonna take it. |
Gone Gonzo  Posts: 1942 Joined: 5 Nov 2008 | I want to know so that I know when to yell "I have the cure for cancer!" |
Beat Writer Posts: 211 Joined: 7 Aug 2008 |
This is not a debate. In my eyes you're my friend already because I share the same opinion. I'm a Christian and I want life and to the fullest. When it's my time, I'll go. If I die tomorrow, so be it. I'm ready. If I die in 100 years, it's best not to waste it. I just want my last breath to be with a smile on my face and my wife and children by my side, knowing I gave them the best days of their lives. But I'm a sucker romantic that way. |
Beat Writer  Posts: 185 Joined: 14 Nov 2007  | Well if your like me and you have made yourself onto the UltraJoes List I can garentee you like me don't have much time. |
On the Record  Posts: 5598 Joined: 3 Jan 2009     |
I'd still like to know so I could have peace of mind. |
Gone Gonzo  Posts: 1824 Joined: 12 Jul 2008   | I'd rather not know when I'm going to die. |
Muckraker Posts: 288 Joined: 5 Aug 2008 |
On the other hand though, you could go crazy for that week and if you didn't know you were going to die you're be just living life normally and you'd miss out on a lot of things. |
Beat Writer  Posts: 136 Joined: 14 Apr 2008  | I freak out about Death too much already. Come to think of it, though, it would be handy for sorting out affairs before the big day came. Then, of course, you end up with the whole paradox thing where you commit suicide to beat the date... But yeah, I might like to know, if purely for the convenience. |
Muckraker  Posts: 306 Joined: 20 Nov 2008   |
the paradox is this. say you know you're going to die tomorrow and you get trapped in a mineshaft or something. why not kill yourself the day (hour, minute, whatever) before? knowing when you'll die can affect when you actually do it. maybe after your diety tells you you'll off yourself early out of spite. (for some reason a lot of people say they'd do silly, spiteful things before they die just to cause trouble.) now, for a more realistic scenario, say you have a brain tumor and a doctor knows exactly when it will kill you. i'd definitely want to know when. the fact is no one lives their life to the fullest and i procrastinate way too much as it is. knowing when i'd die would give me some kind of focus. |
Beat Writer  Posts: 197 Joined: 26 Nov 2008 | Um. No. It would only exacerbate the realisation of mortality. |
Copy Clerk  Posts: 86 Joined: 30 Aug 2007  | Man I can barely enjoy my life knowing that a test is coming up that I don't like, I couldn't possibly manage a happy and productive life knowing the exact time of my death. |
Paperboy  Posts: 42 Joined: 27 Aug 2008 | I don't like to think about death. It gives me the creeps when I start to think what really happens when we "go". I would be scared shitless while waiting for the last few seconds of my life to expire... |
Muckraker  Posts: 333 Joined: 23 Apr 2008  |
If we go by this way of thinking, it seems to me that knowing when you will die will probably be a life-prolonging device. Excluding terminal diseases most of your possible deaths could be avoiding by acting safely around the die your are supposed to die and thus the god would have toe chose the closest possible death that can't be avoided and since most of the time you would die of a death that can be avoided before a death that can't be avoided, knowing your death would make you live longer most of the time. Feel free to point out any errors in this reasoning. |
Gone Gonzo  Posts: 2107 Joined: 13 Dec 2007 |
So the only difference is saying goodbye to people? |
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Yes, I would love to know how, when, where, and why I die for two reasons.
1) Because I want to find out if my own predictions about how I will die are accurate.
2) Because if I know every detail of my death and am given the certainty that I will die in that way, place, and time and no other, that is essentially saying I am indestructible and can do all of the insane things that I want to try without any threat of death.