Poll: A Question about death.

[Taerdin]

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... >.>

 

[Frank_Sinatra_]

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

 

[DeathsAmbassador]

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

 

[Bourne Endeavor]

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.

 

[Dugarel]

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.

 

[jim_doki]

I already know that when I die i turn into David Tennant, so im not that worried about how

 

[Skalman]

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.
For example if someone told me I would die in 10 years, 45 days, 5 hours, 14 minutes and 52 seconds. I could still go and blow my brains out tomorrow, thus proving said person wrong.

 

[xxDarlenexx]

I avoid death at all costs. The only way that sucker could EVER catch me is if I had no idea he was coming.

 

[Bolverk]

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.
But then again...only the good die young...I think I'm gonna be here a while...Oh well. Stranger things have happened.

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.

 

[axia777]

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.

 

[Tsuki Tanaka]

I would like to know so I could live life to the fullest till I died.

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.

 

[axia777]

I would like to know so I could live life to the fullest till I died.

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.

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.

 

[perfectimo]

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.

 

[Sewblon]

I want to know so that I know when to yell "I have the cure for cancer!"

 

[Railu]

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.

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.

 

[KefZ_X]

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.

 

[Ace of Spades]

I'd rather not know when I'm going to die.

 

[FrankDux]

I would like to know so I could live life to the fullest till I died.

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.

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.

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.

 

[Healey]

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.

 

[cobra_ky]

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.

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.