If the prediction cannot be altered I might. Because that way I basically have plot armor until I die.
If that information just reflects the current path I’m on but changes based on my actions I don’t want to hear it.
The latter is an obvious smart deal to take. Just make sure to check yourself for cancer, not walking on a red light etc. according to the thing that kills you. Otherwise do the same. Odds are you would gain more time with your loved ones.
I’m still assuming death is inevitable at some point.
If I get “death by plane crash” for example, I don’t necessarily have to fly for this to happen.
Why not?
Knowing when means I can do whatever I want until the day it happens.
If I knew the reason, chances are it would show “tried to cheat death” with a very close death time. I’d better off not knowing it; because I would definetly try to cheat against it. My lack of knowledge about it will let me live longer.
I’d like to be able to hear it then if I wanted to choose to forget
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If it’s possible for you then it was likely possible for a lot of them too
That’s be nice. I could make arrangements early and adjust my life insurance to maximize payout with minimum payments. It’d also be good to know the how so I can be sure not to be home when it happens - or at least wear a diaper so I don’t poop all over the sofa.
Yes. Then I’d hire a quantum physicist to study my timeline while I try to create a paradox and kill myself. I’m sure someone could learn some shit about how time works.
Definitely. If I’m gonna die in the near future it’d make no sense to continue university.
If I know the way that I die, through anything else I will survive.
I would. I could better plan out my life if I knew when and why it would end. If it comes back and says oh you dying 3 years from a brain aneurysm, I can’t be stopped… Then why would I be trying to plan out for retirement? I can take everything I have and live happy for 3 years. Without knowing I feel like my last thoughts would be ‘fuck, I wasted my life’
Knowing the future and changing it are two different things
No. I live to help people and continue making connections. I wouldn’t want to change that.
It’s truly a great thing if Death is unable to change your priorities. You got your shit figured out and must pat yourself on your back.
I learned some lessons from elders a long time ago that the one thing they wished they had done differently is spend more time with family and friends. Helping someone is an extension of that and truly makes me happy. Nothing else gives as much meaning.
No, I don’t want to see my expiration date every single time I close my eyes. That would just ruin whatever time I have left because that’s all I would ever think about.
I think you’d get over that. I don’t think it’d be any worse than normally contemplation of mortality, eventually. There’d be the initial shock, and then again as it nears, but I think it’s worth it to know.
You and I clearly work differently
I wouldn’t want to know that. Imagine even if you get to know only a part of that knowledge, for instance, you get to know that you will die on a Tuesday or within a specific month. With that information in mind you would dread every upcoming Tuesday (or a specific month) and in the end it all may lead up to a self fulfilling prophecy.
Yeah. I come from a family of hoarders, and I’m a little cluttery myself. I always worry that I’ll die unexpectedly and they’ll be unable to part with god knows what random shit they find in my apartment. If I knew when I was gonna die, I’d schedule someone to come help me trash my belongings the day before. I’d set aside the actually nice stuff for them, but no one needs to convince themselves that a broken USB drive I used to keep porn on or a torn up canvas is super sentimental and they need to hold onto it forever.
