Knowing Your Time: What Would You Do If You Knew When You'd Die?

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Discussion Overview

The discussion revolves around the hypothetical scenario of knowing one's death date and how that knowledge might influence personal choices and behaviors. Participants explore various emotional responses, actions they might take, and philosophical reflections on life and death.

Discussion Character

  • Exploratory
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  • Conceptual clarification

Main Points Raised

  • Some participants suggest they would not change much in their lives, as they do not assume the future is guaranteed.
  • Others express a desire to engage in specific activities, such as visiting Disneyland or skydiving, if they knew their time was limited.
  • A few participants reflect on the nature of death, expressing curiosity about the experience and suggesting it might be a beautiful event.
  • Some comments touch on the idea of feeling superior after death or the courage required to face it, with mixed interpretations of what that means.
  • There are humorous and extreme suggestions about actions one might take if they knew they were dying soon, including violent or reckless behaviors.
  • Several participants question the practicality of leaving a legacy or showing something about their lives after death.

Areas of Agreement / Disagreement

Participants exhibit a range of views, with no clear consensus on how knowing one's death date would affect their actions or feelings. Some agree on the curiosity surrounding death, while others diverge significantly in their proposed responses and interpretations.

Contextual Notes

Some statements reflect personal beliefs and emotional responses, which may not be universally applicable. The discussion includes a mix of serious and humorous tones, leading to varying interpretations of the implications of knowing one's death date.

Who May Find This Useful

This discussion may interest those exploring philosophical questions about mortality, personal choices in the face of death, and the emotional aspects of life and legacy.

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What would you do if you knew when you'd die? Would it make any difference in your life?
What would you do if you knew you would be alive less than 1 year(or 1 month, 1 week...)? :rolleyes:
 
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I don't think I would change much. I never assume the morrow will come.
 
Well, if I knew I would only be around another week, I wouldn't be worrying so much about moving in a week and a half. :biggrin: And if I'd only be around another month, I'd definitely join Zz for his September Disney trip instead of waiting until January. Anything further away than that and I probably wouldn't change much.
 
Okay, MB has a good point: I'd go to Disneyland!
 
Oh really? You don't want to kiss and make up with God whether he exists or not? o:)
Aw I think I'd have a lot to do. Perhaps I start writing one of stories in my mind. But no let's forget it, I don't want to become famouse after my death. :zzz: I should do whatever I like.(I'm doing the same now) :rolleyes:

By the way, how would you feel? Happy or sad or even excited?
 
Moonbear said:
Well, if I knew I would only be around another week, I wouldn't be worrying so much about moving in a week and a half. :biggrin: And if I'd only be around another month, I'd definitely join Zz for his September Disney trip instead of waiting until January. Anything further away than that and I probably wouldn't change much.

Good point. But you know I would join Zz for a trip whenever I decide to kill myself! :-p He's not around here, is he? :rolleyes:
 
I hope that I am awake and aware. I want to know what people see when their eyes grow wide with awe.

A close friend of the family died recently. As has happened with others, at the moment of death his eyes grew very wide and he looked all around the room as if it was filled with people.

There was a hospice nurse who wrote a book in which she proclaims, "you don't want to miss your own death". Apparently it can be quite a beautiful experience.

God and I are just fine.
 
Yeah, I'm really curious to know what happens. I think death is the most mysterious and interesting event or perhaps travel in everyone's life. Sometimes I envy people who have died, I don't know why. Because I enjoy my life but I think when someone dies s/he feel superior to alive people. And laugh at people who are afraid of death.
 
Lisa! said:
Yeah, I'm really curious to know what happens. I think death is the most mysterious and interesting event or perhaps travel in everyone's life. Sometimes I envy people who have died, I don't know why. Because I enjoy my life but I think when someone dies s/he feel superior to alive people. And laugh at people who are afraid of death.


I think the power to die is within your hands,you just need a bit of courage.!
And you can anytime become superior!
(Lisa,i am seriously joking,! :biggrin: )
 
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heman said:
I think the power to die is within your hands,you just need a bit of courage.!
And you can anytime become superior!
(Lisa,i am seriously joking,! :biggrin: )
:smile:What do you mean by seriously joking? What you're saying is for people who don't have enough courage to continue their life. :wink: Death is a part of our life and for sure it has its specific time.
 
  • #11
Lisa! said:
:smile:What do you mean by seriously joking? .

:smile: :smile: :smile: :smile: :smile: :smile: :smile: :smile:

Lisa! said:
What you're saying is for people who don't have enough courage .to continue their life

If you are standing on the top of Eiffel tower,won't you require courage to jump down?

Lisa! said:
Death is a part of our life and for sure it has its specific time.

time is in your hands, :-p
 
  • #12
Lisa! said:
What would you do if you knew when you'd die?
I know already when i will die, in the future.
now that i know that, ill keep doing what I've done so far, i.e posting in pf :cry:
Would it make any difference in your life?
see above.
What would you do if you knew you would be alive less than 1 year(or 1 month, 1 week...)? :rolleyes:
i would not ask what I am going to do, i would do it. :devil:
 
  • #13
Lisa! said:
Yeah, I'm really curious to know what happens. I think death is the most mysterious and interesting event or perhaps travel in everyone's life. Sometimes I envy people who have died, I don't know why. Because I enjoy my life but I think when someone dies s/he feel superior to alive people. And laugh at people who are afraid of death.
what kind of laugh?
is it the evilish one- muhahaha?
or the kind-nature- hahahaha?
 
  • #14
heman said:
If you are standing on the top of Eiffel tower,won't you require courage to jump down?
Aw Ejffel tower? You know I love jumping down from a high place because I'm so curious to know how it's like. :rolleyes: I don't know why we don't stay health when we jump down from high places but cats do. You know I think cats know physics rules better than us and they know how to use them in their lives. :wink:
Anyway I always need to be so careful when I'm standing on a high place because sometimes my curiosity is about to make me jump down! o:)
 
  • #15
I want to go BASE jumping!

If you jumped from the Eiffel Tower, wouldn't you hit some lower metal poles?
 
  • #16
If I knew I was dying within a week or a month I would:

-Assassinate President Bush and Bill Gates
-Go sky diving
-Have sex in public (got this one from another site)

There are probably some other good ones, but I can't think of them now.
 
  • #17
loop quantum gravity said:
i.e posting in pf :cry:

You mean you try to know what hell is like by spending time in PF? :wink:



How do you laugh when you see some people are worried about silly things or love something damn stupid?
 
  • #18
moose, do you have any suggestion?

mattmns said:
If I knew I was dying within a week or a month I would:

-Assassinate President Bush and Bill Gates
Aha! Clever guy, you get my point. I wanted to know if anyone would kill someone else since he knew he would die soon anyway. :wink:
 
  • #19
If I knew my death adte, i would try to do all that I can before that date, so I'd have something to show about my life.
 
  • #20
yomamma said:
If I knew my death adte, i would try to do all that I can before that date, so I'd have something to show about my life.
how can you show something about your life if you are dead? :bugeye:
 
  • #21
Cheat and die the way i want to only a day early.
 
  • #22
yomamma said:
If I knew my death adte, i would try to do all that I can before that date, so I'd have something to show about my life.
Killing Franzbear? :-p
 
  • #23
precisely...
 
  • #24
Has anyone heard this one?

This guy goes to see a doctor who gives him a checkup and does tests. After looking at the test results the doctor says to the guy: "I have some terrible news. You're going to die in ten..."

The guy asks in puzzlement: "Ten what? Years? Months? Weeks?"

Doctor: "Nine... Eight... Seven..."
 
  • #25
Lisa! said:
You mean you try to know what hell is like by spending time in PF? :wink:
i thought this was heaven. o:)

How do you laugh when you see some people are worried about silly things or love something damn stupid?
i smile, and if they are damn stupid i laugh ha-ha-ha (i mean truly stupid, not acting as stupid).
usually i only smile, cause i know that i myself have some weird traits (damn, lisa, I am a physics/maths/philosophy nerd, i got to have some weirdness to laugh at).
 
  • #26
mattmns said:
If I knew I was dying within a week or a month I would:

-Assassinate President Bush and Bill Gates
-Go sky diving
-Have sex in public (got this one from another site)

There are probably some other good ones, but I can't think of them now.
i bet you'll feel bad with yourself if you will live more than a month or week that was forseen for you.
i mean after a month if you are not dead yet, you might spent a lot of time in jail, for killing bush and gates. (although, i bet bin-laden and winos' users will be indebted).
 
  • #27
loop quantum gravity said:
i thought this was heaven. o:)
If here's heaven, what's the hell like! :rolleyes:


i smile, and if they are damn stupid i laugh ha-ha-ha (i mean truly stupid, not acting as stupid).
usually i only smile, cause i know that i myself have some weird traits (damn, lisa, I am a physics/maths/philosophy nerd, i got to have some weirdness to laugh at).
Aha! you've answered your own question. I think dead people laugh at us in a way we laugh at stupid people! :wink:
 

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