Lukeje:

Markness:

Lukeje:
With regard to the last option on the poll,we can already predict the day that we will die to a certain degree of accuracy without need for some 'diety' (which I'm hoping is a pun on 'deity') to tell us. For instance, at 20yrs old I know that my death will more than likely be within the next 100yrs. Using the algorithms designed by life-insurers, I could narrow this figure down a lot more. Most people could figure out an approximate 'date of death' if they really wanted to. The fact that most people don't kind of answers your poll.

That calculation is only an average, many millions of things could happen to you and this poll is to find out if you would like to know exactly how long you will live. Although is confusing with all the time paradox crap. I mean, knowing when you will die will change your behaviour which will change when you die.

Uchh... sorry, I was unclear. I meant that it made the last option on the poll redundant, not the poll redundant.

It seems I failed to read your first sentence, sorry about that. Oh and I voted yes because I would hate for the chance that I spent the last of my life being my lazy annoying self and not you know mended the ties and tricking people into remembering me as awesome.

Naaah. I'm not very good with suspense.

Shurikens and Lightning:

AuntyEthel:
It would depend on how it would happen. If Death appeared and told me I would be hit by a car in exactly a month, I'd probably stay at home that day.

Yeah but I said the Time and time only! FOR EXAMPLE: 2/4/67 at 3:43 in the afternoon and 13 seconds 5 milleseconds.

Plus if he did then obviously a car would fly thru your house and run your cheating ass over. Death is one test you dont want to cheat!

Yeah, but I'm just saying that by being extra careful on that exact day/hour/minute, one might be able to avoid it and cause some giant space-time rip. Though if I was meant to be hit by a car, and managed to avoid it, Death would probably immediately make me die of a heart-attack.

Yeah, I would, if only to be able to make sure to see that all my loose ends, family, and friends are taken care of.

No.

When you die your dead and that's an end of it.
Why worry about something you have no influence over?

No, I want to know nothing about the circumstances of my death.

If it included accidents then I'd totally want to know it. I mean yeah, waiting for the end would be lame but if it was going to be like, in a year, then I'd have the chance to do loads of cool stuff.

Genta8:
Hey, wheres the fun in that? Knowing that would take all the fun out of living.

spot on

well the purpose to live is to die and if you know when your going to die then that takes away the purpose

fix-the-spade:
No.

When you die your dead and that's an end of it.
Why worry about something you have no influence over?

This
+ i dont belive in people having a destny ie life is not a road its a field you can go any deirection you want and the out comes in life is mostly luck.

Its bad enouth knowing i wont be alive in 100 years from now nether mind knowing if i was going to die in 10 mins time. so no

its intresting to see the replies of "ad like to know so i could do what ever i want and get away with it" it shows we all are but amimals carged by soiaty.

Watch Final Destination 1, 2 and 3 for all you need to know on cheating death

AuntyEthel:
It would depend on how it would happen. If Death appeared and told me I would be hit by a car in exactly a month, I'd probably stay at home that day.

If Death tells you you're gonna die, you're gonna die. The car would probably drive through your living room, right over you.

As for me no. I'm human and no, i don't like facing my mortality.

A very long time ago, in Australia, they were showing a TV show that could help you predict very acurrately, when you were going to die. I did not watch it.

But then again if i just dropped dead one day while playing my computer games, i'd be very sad, since i would've never got to achieve anything great (not Xbox 360 achievements btw XD)

After thinking about this for a long time, I realised that I would say yes*, but the information would be pointless, since something like that supports the idea of Fate being in control of our lives (I could explain, but it would be a long explanation) and therefore, the idea of Heaven, Hell and Purgatory becomes redundant (You see, if Fate exists, and you are fated from birth to be a bad person, then you can't be punished for it, and, similarly, if you're fated to be a good person then you can't really be rewarded for it, either). And me, being a Christian who believes in Heaven, Hell and Purgatory, find this question impossible to answer

*I added the words 'say yes' in the edit

Sure I would, then I'd pick a schedule of what to do and whether going to med school is worth it if I'm gonna die in my 30's anyway...

Genta8:
Hey, wheres the fun in that? Knowing that would take all the fun out of living.

Yeah. This.

If you knew you would die at 26, come your 20's, and you'd just think 'fuck it, I'm gonna die soon anyway' and not bother having fun. That, or you'd off yourself.

I think that if someone told you how long you had to live, it would probably make you decide to do alot more things in your life before your time was up. On the other hand it would take the fun out of life because in essence knowing your death-day would take out all the excitement out of living and not knowing what could be around the next corner.

It gives me more time to be a Bastard if I know!

I would love to know the day I will day to the second but only if the day is a less accurate day than to the second on the day, as I clearly voted in the poll.

Sure, cuz if I was going to die in a few years or so, I wouldn't waste my time going back to college. I'd spend it traveling the world!

zhoomout:
I'd tell the diety "Only if you tell me how". Therefore, if it is, for example, getting hit by a car, I would know to jump back onto the pavement and shout "F**k you, Grim Reaper!!!"

And At that exact moment A 18 wheel truck correens of the road and makes you dissapear in its grill.

sirdanrhodes:
It gives me more time to be a Bastard if I know!

I hope to god you dont know.

Markness:

Although is confusing with all the time paradox crap. I mean, knowing when you will die will change your behaviour which will change when you die.

There is nothing paradoxical about it at all. Him telling you causes you to act exactly how you are supposed to. He is supposed to tell you, you are supposed to try and escape it, and this is what leads you to your death. There is no real paradox there.

I suppose it would be cool to know so you can get the best out of what you have left, but it would really suck as you got closer to your date of death... so I would probably prefer not to know. It would make my last few days really depressing.

What would be the point of living if you knew when you would stop ticking. The only thing that keeps humanity worth doing is the mortality factor...

that would rock!

First I'd ask him for confirmation that it wouldn't be a self-fulfilling prophecy, but if I could get that, then yes I'd want to know.

Does the appearance of a 'Deity' imply that there is something in the afterlife?
If it did, I'd probably do a ton of volunteer and charity work just to get in His good books. I wouldn't worry about dying... that much :D
If it doesn't, then I wouldn't. Knowing when your life would end would just make me depressed. I'd constantly think about that fateful day...
But then again, it wouldn't really matter. If there is nothing after death, then you can't miss life, because you don't exist. You don't think.

The phrase 'Ignorance is bliss' comes to mind when I read this sort of stuff. :D

Yeah. Then I would know... wait... wait. I'm an atheist... ummm, lets say it was a machine that accurately predicts your time of death for my version of this scenario. Okay. Continuing on, I would say yes anyway, because then I would know exactly when I could kill the... jack-ass's... that I really hate, and still get away with it... because I'll be dead soon after.

Morbid and slightly psychotic, but, hey, you asked.

saying yes could actualy make it a self-fulfilling prophecy, people have actuly got themselves killed after someone told them they were going to die, because they were told so and either went crazy trying to stop it, or acted so careless that they accidentaly put themselves in harms way.

Straitjacketeering:
Well if I want to get incredibly technical that would mean that fate exists and you'll survive everything else up until that point and time so i'd be going insane doing incredibly dangerous things, probably get into constant gunfights and murders... That would make a cool movie plot.

Have you ever seen Minority Report?

Its pretty bad, but still... >.>

Day before I die... Liquidate most of my funds and buy a ton of worthless stock.

I wouldn't want to know, if I knew when I was going to die I would be stressed and scared.

I could care less if I knew either way, although if asked I would be too intrigued to say no. With that information I would alter essentially nothing in my course of life. I still in every way intend to be better active, travel and what have you. If I were cited to die within ten years, I would simply shrug the notion as inevitable considering we all have to die eventually and press onward with my goals.

For you I have one glaring issue if I were to know my date of death. I am far too arrogant to accept fate as it is dealt, whilst I have difficulity agreeing to orders. Thus I would attempt to defy the hand of fate so to speak, for mere amusement just to see if I am truly in control of my life despite a deity claiming I am doomed at such and such a time.