Would you rather know when you're going to die or how you're going to die?

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When I first heard this question I thought the clear cut answer was "when." But the more I think about it, if you know you're going to die in a car accident, I guess you can avoid cars?
 

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I think the question comes with the fact that when and how you die aren't changed by the fact that you know
 

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Wouldn't want to know either. So can't really pick one option over the other.
 

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That's a great guestion. Think about it. I reckon it would be when: then maybe you could make preparations..*
 

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That's a great guestion. Think about it. I reckon it would be when: then maybe you could make preparations..*

Would you really want to know that you are going to die in a year?

Some people might say they would live life to the fullest and have as much fun as possible. Living every day as though it is their last.

But would it really be all that fun when your head hits the pillow at night knowing the day is so near? Depends on your personality I guess. I think a lot of people would go into a serious depression knowing their day to go was so close.
 

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Would you really want to know that you are going to die in a year?

Some people might say they would live life to the fullest and have as much fun as possible. Living every day as though it is their last.

But would it really be all that fun when your head hits the pillow at night knowing the day is so near? Depends on your personality I guess. I think a lot of people would go into a serious depression knowing their day to go was so close.

It's akin to "If you knew how many heartbeats you had remaining you would be obsessed with keeping a minute by minute account"

As for the OP, i mostly subscribe to the Vedic Hindu philosophy of life. Therefore, I never actually "die", I just chsnge bodies. And the cause for those changes have been an endless variety, so none of them particularly stand out.
 

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Such knowledge would drive insane !

In particular the how part assuming what you have learned MUST occur, no matter what you do to attempt to stop it
You will die in a hurricane so you relocate from Florida to Colorado where hurricanes can't possibly occur, somehow you will die that way, no matter what you do to try to stop it, knowing the date and time would just make it more worser !

Many people have a decent sense of when they might die and often can see the end is coming near. I for example at age 55, realize I'm getting a lot closer to the end. Men in my family don't tend to live life long lives. I'm not exactly Joe healthnut, Dad died at 73, but a heavy smoker and not exactly a fitness fanatic. His brother was into that lifestyle, he pretty much died jogging to the health food store at perhaps at age 52 or close to that . Even Mom only made it to 81, but her mother made it to 93 or so, she was a foreigner not. In Austria ,I believe. Never became really fluent in English, never drove a car or had a job, really an unpleasant old bitty in retrospect. She was always very old in my eyes, Mom was an old 43 when I was surely born accidently, very unusual in 1963 for a woman that old to give birth way back then, not that command even now. By the time, I was aware of anything say about age 8 or so, Granny must have like 70 + ?

It was a bit weird having parents that were about old enough to be my grandparents and having that strong work ethic from being children of the Depression era, born 1919-1920. Marriage shot by 1972 or so, Dad escaped by working 3 jobs, 2 as night time janitor even though he had accounting degree and day job as such, Mom constantly at the jail-alai games when off her day job
No abuse or anything, just kind of ignored once my older brother moved to Colorado circa 1972 or 1973, he is still there.

Money was no problem , Dad gave me plenty of cash and,I had great union job at the grocery store and made ridiculous money there, I probably made more money than any of the 300 kids in my class, more than M and she was head teller at a bank, probably not too much less than my teachers
I had a permanent early dismissal as a junior for 11:14 AM, and worked full time at that Finast grocery store.

It was probably the worst that thing that ever happened to me. I never went for a college degree because I thought I had life dicked at 18,like in the Alice Cooper.song. I was really given too much freedom too young. Once brother escaped to Colorado , Pops moved into his vacated bedroom and it was like an 11 year kid living with two other roommates that were doing their best to avoid each other, even at age 11, I made plenty of money for a kid with my paper route

It was not really ideal conditions for me, like being a
Almost on your at like 12, parents more like roommates.

I would advise people to not have a first kid after age 35 or so, if you haven't started a family by then, the don't .
 

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EASY answer...

WHEN....

I'd set-up my wife & kids w/ all accounts...secret ones as well...

Hell I can't take it w/me...

Then I'd go down to my place in Ft Myers..and

ride out the storm...
 

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Changed my mind on posting my thoughts on this for now, maybe later !
Perhaps take up mountain climbing and make your suicide look like an accidental thing. It will be analyzed to death and likely not quickly approved, could take years, even decades to settle.

It most likely fails. Law enforce has lots tons of tools to use against your
 

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I have seen people's personality change after terminal diagnosis in a bad way too many times. I don't think knowing the when would be good for most people but definitely not for me.

How awful would it be to be happily sitting here and then be informed you are dying via suicide?

But if I was told I was dying via murder or dying via car accident ... hell, I could eat whatever I want without the guilt of knowing I was shortening my life.
 

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In some instances knowing the death date might contribute to the cause of death because your trying to avoid it.. I’m not leaving the house that day to avoid death, than you die in a house fire or some shit. Or you have a heart attack when the day finally comes because your freaking out and that’s why you had the heart attack
 

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