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[Ike_ve]

So..If you had the chance to knew when and how you would die, would you take it or just leave it and find out by yourself.Also, if you found out, you can't change it. For example, if you die by a bullet in a war, you can't stop it by not going at the war..I really would want to know when i would die, young or old. Just to know, so if i die young, i'll do the most against the law things, and if i die old, i would study much, would find a good job, familly etc...So.. Do you want to know when you will die?

[KansukeKojima]

I would absolutely not want to know when I die. When it comes, it comes - and that is all there is to it. I would likely become preoccupied with the date it would occur on and unfortunately be very depressed about it, although I would be departing to something much better . I would know the exact day I would be leaving behind everyone I love and care about behind, which is something I rather not have knowledge of.

[Tombomb318]

I would love to know when I was going to die. I would then take the chance to do anything to put my self in harms way. Get in my car and just floor it, never stooping for the cops. Rob a store. and then i would end the party by skydiving with out a para shoot.

[KansukeKojima]

Tombomb318, on May 4 2009, 10:49 PM, said:

I would love to know when I was going to die. I would then take the chance to do anything to put my self in harms way. Get in my car and just floor it, never stooping for the cops. Rob a store. and then i would end the party by skydiving with out a para shoot.

You would spend your last days putting others in harms way and causing chaos ??? I mean, driving like a maniac surely endangers other drivers, not to mention the police officers chasing you. Robbing a store can result in people being shot, etc.. excellent way to end your life

[Alex Cicala]

No I would not want to know when I die. And there is no way of predicting it, it's impossible. There is no such thing as destiny. We always can change our future. This statment reminds me of the movie Final Destination???

Anyway so no it's not a good thing to know when you die. It will happen sooner or later, or if technology allows for invulnerability, Which is highly unlikely .

[Tombomb318]

KansukeKojima, on May 5 2009, 01:25 AM, said:

You would spend your last days putting others in harms way and causing chaos ??? I mean, driving like a maniac surely endangers other drivers, not to mention the police officers chasing you. Robbing a store can result in people being shot, etc.. excellent way to end your life

Yes putting other people in harms way is a risk that im willing to take, because if i had it my why, when i died, so would everyone. > But dosent getting in to a high speed pursuit with the cops just sound like fun, well tell the jail part. And if im going to go out its going to be extream.

[truefusion]

I would hate knowing when i were to die, even more so if it was a slow and painful process. Even if it was smooth and in my sleep, i would not want to know, 'cause then i'd be troubled by such a fact, unless i somehow forget. But it may not be easy forgetting such a thing. But i don't see the sense in causing trouble just because you'd die early. For wouldn't you then be placing yourself in a philosophical dilemma? That is, the reason why you died early is because you thought you were going to die early, therefore you did foolish things? Even if we assume that you were told you were going to die at war and therefore chose to avoid war, yet avoiding war didn't prevent you from dying early. Wouldn't that just mean that you weren't really supposed to die at war but just some time after being told that? Perhaps "war" was metaphorical, where you were at "war" with the police all because you thought you were going to die young and therefore took it upon yourself to do foolish things. For this reason, i don't see it wise to do foolish things just because you somehow managed to convince yourself that you'd be on some level justified in doing such.

cicala, on May 5 2009, 02:10 AM, said:

And there is no way of predicting it, it's impossible.

The end of your life can be predicted by the one who has your life in their hands.

[buherath]

No way, man. I do not want to know when I will die. Then it will be pointless to live. Knowing that you have this-much time to live. As the old saying says "yesterday is history, tomorrow is a mystery, today is a gift. that is why it is called the present!"

[Spyda]

Probably not. I would think about it all the time and make myself not even be able to spend the rest of my life happily. If I do die, I want to do it where I don't know it until .06 seconds before so I won't have enough time to panic. x3

It's also better off not knowing because I'd spend the rest of my life trying to fix the future like some kind of crazy video game... even after being told I can't change it.

Edit: Actually, that sounds like fun. o.o

Edited by bk2070, 10 May 2009 - 11:19 PM.

[karl77]

Probably yes. I think what's most important about having to know the time of death, is that it can help somebody to free himself/herself of all the moral and physical debts people owe him/her. Before he/she goes away.

[jzweb]

I would probably not want to know when i would die.

[fermin25]

Of course I want to know when I will die.

Have you ever seen the Big Fish movie? Edward Bloom take a lot of risk because he knows that "I don´t will die today".

This could be a great advantage in the life of any people.

But of course If I´d know that i will die tomorrow...That is another story...

[juandelacruz]

No I don't like to know when I gonna die!

What do you think your family feels when they know that you're gonna die before them or vice versa?

[seanbig]

i believe i'd rather not know. i do see how it could have its advantages... however, what makes life worth living is its unpredictable nature. if i knew how it was all going to pan out, it wouldn't be worth living. you would never take true risks because you would already know whether or not you were going to survive based on when you knew you would die. the sense of true adventure in life would immediately be diminished once you knew just how long you could remain essentially invincible (if you were given a finite death date, you would have no cause for concern regarding events leading up to that date).

all in all... i feel that life would lose its sense of adventure and as much as it can be a massive pain in the *bottom* at times, i'm quite certain that life without that adventure would not be worth the effort.

[proskiier23]

no althought it would be nice to know i feel like you would be so reckless and just rush your life alot

[gisellebebegirl]

I would want to know when I died.
There are a lot of things I want to do with my life
but I don't want to spend extravagant amounts of money on something
if I had 20 more years to support my family and myself.
I wouldn't take days off of work to do things in life if I knew I'd be there next week and the week after and after.

[-Sky-]

No, I wouldn't. That has to be the most scariest thought ever to be scared about. I am sure some people would, however alot of them won't. Please don't even provide a site link for this as it is not a nice thing to look at. I hear a site called Death clock...I hate that. I will find some why of hacking and taking that site down. They should never have made that site.

[Nameless_]

truefusion, on May 6 2009, 01:08 AM, said:

I would hate knowing when i were to die, even more so if it was a slow and painful process. Even if it was smooth and in my sleep, i would not want to know, 'cause then i'd be troubled by such a fact, unless i somehow forget. But it may not be easy forgetting such a thing. But i don't see the sense in causing trouble just because you'd die early. For wouldn't you then be placing yourself in a philosophical dilemma? That is, the reason why you died early is because you thought you were going to die early, therefore you did foolish things? Even if we assume that you were told you were going to die at war and therefore chose to avoid war, yet avoiding war didn't prevent you from dying early. Wouldn't that just mean that you weren't really supposed to die at war but just some time after being told that? Perhaps "war" was metaphorical, where you were at "war" with the police all because you thought you were going to die young and therefore took it upon yourself to do foolish things. For this reason, i don't see it wise to do foolish things just because you somehow managed to convince yourself that you'd be on some level justified in doing such.


The end of your life can be predicted by the one who has your life in their hands.

100% Agreed!
I won't want to know when I die... or why...

There will always be the clock ticking away in your head, counting the seconds you have left. And you will get obsessed when your time is up, looking at the clock... staring... staring... staring...

Wasting your time when you can be enjoying life. I just want to go with the flow in life. It's weird, you know. You feel like you will never grow old, never die... but you will. It happens to everyone. Life is just a contract with death. If there is death, there is life. If there is life, there is death. They go hand in hand together.

What will you do when you know when you'll die? Count the days off? Tick and cross out the dates? Have a celebration like: 100 days till death!?
I think not. It's just too hard. I want to think I'll live forever even if I know I won't. But I will have all the years ahead of me to pretend I will, while you can't because you know that it is coming for you definitely, and you can't escape because you will have the knowledge of when you die.

One little piece of knowledge that can be written in a line can change your life forever.
And I totally agree with the paradox thing. It works...

And haven't you heard the expression?
Ignorance is bliss. (Or something like that)

[deonild]

And better yet why not free of debts now we can all presume we will eventually die. Still I would not want to know when I will die. I would rather not have it haunting me. Wanting to know when I will die would heavily distract me from my daily life. Will I die around that corner? What about this corner? Will that manhole cave in? Will that tree wait until I'm under it to fall?

[Shahrukh]

It would be good to know when you are going to die. You can prepare for it. Do all the things that you always wanted to do.
But its will be pretty sad when the dying time comes, especially if you haven't told anyone. To think they don't know they won't see you again...sad.

[rpgsearcherz]

Shahrukh, on 26 July 2010 - 07:39 PM, said:

It would be good to know when you are going to die. You can prepare for it. Do all the things that you always wanted to do.
But its will be pretty sad when the dying time comes, especially if you haven't told anyone. To think they don't know they won't see you again...sad.

I feel the complete opposite. To me knowing is like being told you have cancer and will die in 6 months. You no longer live life -- you start to view things as being a waste of time since it's going to end "soon" anyways. It changes peoples' entire outlooks on life from that day forward, for the worst.

There are a few people who are not affected the same way but generally most people are.

I know for a fact that information would be something I would have a hard time handling. I'd rather keep going and hoping I can achieve what I want, rather than thinking "well, that's going to take 8 years to do and I'll die in 7 so why even start?"

[Harlot]

I don't think anyone really wants to know when they dead. The only way someone could possibly live knowing when their death is going to come is if they live in a culture that completely glorify death to the extent that people can't wait for it to come. People have tried to glorify death in the past. For example, Haven upon death sounds glorified. After you die, you live a happy life and walk on street paved in gold. That sounds like somewhere that I would like to go. However, in the subconscious people really understand that death is surrounded by mystery and men fear what they don't know.

Therefore, its probably not wise to know (paradox) the date of an event that is surrounded by mystery. Then if you know how you die, that would be equally terrible. This would mean that not only do you know what day and time you're going to die, but you also know that the truck on side of you is about to run over your face. In a way though, I think that some of us may have to deal with knowing that death is on the way. It seems like some people know when death is near. They go to their family house and give hints without saying it directly, and tell their family that they love them and bye. Lets face it, most people would rather not tell their family directly that they think that death is near. The reaction of your family, if they believe you, would not be a happy one. The second biggest fear of death (for me at least), aside from not knowing, is leaving family and friends behind to mourn.

I will have to briefly contradict myself because there are exceptions. If I was going to die tomorrow, I may want to know so that I can spend the time I have left with my family. However, I don't think I would want to know a year ahead of time or even a month. Of course this is all "I think" because I really don't know if I would even want to know about death a day before. Its a very complicated issues and I believe the best thing that we can do is live life to the fullest and do what we think is right deep inside (not what others think is right). If you live life in a way that it could not have been any different in the sense of being true to yourself, then there are no regrets at death no matter when it occurs. You don't have to wonder if you are going to cease to exist, go to heaven, go to hell, reincarnate, or whatever, because whatever happens was meant to be.

[rpgsearcherz]

Harlot, on 26 July 2010 - 11:06 PM, said:

I will have to briefly contradict myself because there are exceptions. If I was going to die tomorrow, I may want to know so that I can spend the time I have left with my family. However, I don't think I would want to know a year ahead of time or even a month. Of course this is all "I think" because I really don't know if I would even want to know about death a day before. Its a very complicated issues and I believe the best thing that we can do is live life to the fullest and do what we think is right deep inside (not what others think is right). If you live life in a way that it could not have been any different in the sense of being true to yourself, then there are no regrets at death no matter when it occurs. You don't have to wonder if you are going to cease to exist, go to heaven, go to hell, reincarnate, or whatever, because whatever happens was meant to be.

This is a problem people always bring up when questioned about how they would feel. It's the fact that until you are faced with the information it's real hard to make the decision.

It's just like with euthanasia -- a lot of people say they would say yes to it, yet if they were really faced with the choice I doubt it would be so clear-cut to them.

[Quatrux]

I agree with most people in this thread. I wouldn't want to know when I will die or how, from what and etc. It would be hard to live, even though it's also hard to live when you don't know? Maybe tomorrow, maybe after 60 years.

So I would like to know when I would die, but also would like to forget it after a minute and that everyone would forget who heard it

[Nik]

I really don't want to know when I will die. Because it is the unpredictable thing that can happen anytime in our life. And no body can predict when other person will die. So whichever good thing is possible from your side, you do it. By doing this there may be possibility that God becomes impress with you, and give you a longer life. So the best thing is to remember is that Always Do good deed, you will live longer life.