Would your life be better or worse if you knew the day, time and place you were going to die? ( Archived) (18)

Sorry, on topic. Assuming there's a few years left in the old dog yet, I think I'd rather live life with thoughts of life and plans/ideas for the future uninhibited by a looming timescale.

Perhaps knowing when you're going to die might be a bit limiting if its some time away? Maybe you'd always be thinking about efficiency and what's best to fit in while you can. I don't know how I might react if my death could be convincingly predicted.

Good question and its making me think.

I'm not afraid of death by any stretch of the imagination having had a close shave, but I'm having all sorts of thoughts about what I would prioritise if I knew the world was going to end in a couple of hours and trying to play around with the difference between not knowing, knowing death is immanent, knowing I've only got a short timescale, or knowing I've got a long one.

I'm wondering if I'd be less shy if the world was going to end in a couple of hours - not much point in social boundaries and all that jazz. In which case, as a psychological exercise, perhaps this one might be productive and freeing.

Actually, if you knew the date, time and place, it would be a bit like suicide, or euthanasia. That's all very well if you're ready for it, but like walking into a gas chamber if you're not.

Okay, scrap that last thought. I prefer the psychological exercise of establishing my priorities.

Some people do...on death row. And it's not unusual for some of them to experience a great joy and enlightenment, free from the burden of expectation their acceptance delivers a kind of bliss. For them there is nothing to resist, there is just the here and now.

It would be more intense then better, perhaps.



Calculating the day and the time could be easy but the place???

I think it would be better in many respects as one could come to a place of acceptance. Lately I've been doing much thinking of what comes beyond this world as we know it and wondering what it will be like for I do believe that our souls live on.

Certain scientists, futurists, and philosophers, have theorized about the immortality of the human body, and advocate that human immortality is achievable.While it is often joked that cats have nine lives, a certain species of jellyfish has been deemed “immortal” by scientists who have observed its ability to, when in crisis, revert its cells to their earliest form and grow anew. That means that these tiny creatures, 4 mm to 5 mm long, potentially have infinite lives.

Now back to your original question; Would my life be better or worse if I knew the day, time and place I was going to die?
From this standpoint I still find it difficult to accept that eventually I won`t exist anymore ,even thinking about it is a bit scary and yet somehow I do expect the next step ( transformation of energy)

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BECOSE YOU WOULD BE YOURSELF ,AND TREAT PEOPLE BETTER ,YOU WOULD BE MORE SOUL THEN BODY ,,,,,TERRY