Causality issues aside, yes I would. Makes a big difference if I found out I had 40+ years left vs 5 years left.
Dude you have like eighteen seconds
Wouldn’t have mattered either way then lol.
Yeah. Death doesn’t bother me since it’s fate. Knowing when would be handy for time management and something I could leverage. It’d be great to party at my own funeral too.
I mean, permanently or temporarily? Apparently my heart has been stopping on and off randomly all year. :(
Get this… I was in the hospital in January. I wake up, check my phone… Nurse comes in.
“Were you asleep about an hour ago?”
“Yeah, why?”
“Your heart stopped for 8 seconds.”
“. . . Um… ‘thank you’? I’m not sure what I’m supposed to do with that information…”
Apparently it happened a few more times in March. I have an implanted heart monitor now, always watching.
Amazing, from your “apparently” I take you were never awake when it happened. I wanted to ask how it feels. I have an arrhythmia that gets my heart either fluttering or skipping a beat but it happens like a couple of times a year. It feels super weird.
I’ve had a-fib and congestive heart failure, 2 heart attacks, and open heart surgery.
Each of the times my heart has stopped, I was asleep, no awareness of it until the doctors and nurses told me.
With the heart monitor, I can press a button when something feels “off”, and report symptoms like being dizzy or passing out. Doc says I’ve been getting extra heartbeats sometimes. Low blood pressure has been a problem too.
When I pass out from low blood pressure, the first thing is I get super dizzy. Then a ringing in my ears so loud I can’t hear anything. Then my vision closes in and turns red and I wake up on the floor.
Thanks for sharing!
Interesting, that’s my experience with anesthesia.
Is it absolutely certain and nothing I can do to change it?
If so fuck yes I’m pretty much immortal tell that date.
oh just because you know when you’ll die doesn’t mean you can go yolo on everything. Getting into a horrific accident and becoming bed ridden for the rest of your life doesn’t count as dying. Imagine laying in bed, body paralysed, knowing that this is the place you’ll spend 30 years in.
You’d still be need to be as careful as usual, just with a painful awareness of how many seconds you have left until the end, and with a curse of not being able to go on your own terms if something terrible happens.
You could do fun stuff where if you die, you REALLY die, like testing new submarines.
YOLOO!!!.. WAIT, fuck your right. I reject my claim and now will live in a box scared of existing.
And what happens if you buy a literal ton of C4, cover yourself in the pile and detonate?
I have to survive somehow, right?
miraculous survival? world’s first talking head? depends on the exact wording and if you got your intro from a benevolent fairy or a genie
So a magical but injured life is possible, but a magical but non-injured one isn’t?
Cool. Cruel, but cool.
Plot twist. Going YOLO for this reason is exactly what starts the chain of events leading to your expiration.
Yes. Be able to choose the right life insurance plan, investments, etc for my beneficiaries.
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’
Sure. It would make planning for retirement a lot easier; I’d have a pretty good idea of how much I needed to save and invest.
I’m already dying of lymphoma but I’d like to know exactly when. The constant up and down of good days and bad days takes an emotional toll. If I knew I could relax completely and actually plan to do things.
I would 100% exploit this (insurance for family).
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.
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.
A lot of people definitely would take it. This might be the time to confess their love to a lifelong crush, punch their bully in the face, save up and complete their bucket lists, etc.
Death focuses us on what’s actually important and meaningful for each of us.
Sure it would help me adjust the plan
Why not?
Knowing when means I can do whatever I want until the day it happens.
Absolutely. Brushes with and actually facing death force people to see their life more purely, more actively and honestly. Why turn down that chance to live your life exactly as you’ve always known you wanted to because you can’t see it any other way? We all know this concept in our minds, but few, if any of us, actually live this way. When that time comes, a lot of us will have regrets for not living life more fully.
