To ask about death?

[MissSBluebell]

If you could know the exact date of your death, would you want to find out?

(For background, I work around death every day, I’m kind of “immune” to the emotions of it - That is, until it happens to someone I know )

Definitely not! I would hate that feeling of ticking down to the end.

gosh no, I'd spend every second of my remaining life thinking about it!

What about the other side though? How liberating knowing what time you have left to play with?

Yes. I'd want to know! I could plan accordingly!

I read once that we tend to think of death as a grim reaper up ahead of us, way in the distance, that we are slowly walking towards them.

Actually, we're stood still. The reaper is behind us, moving closer each day.

I'd like to know when I'm about to feel the reaper's breath on my neck :)

Absolutely not

No way.

Yes.

I would. I'm a bit of a control freak and knowing would make me feel more in control.

Hell no! It would scare me to death to know, which is rather ironic 😁

Definitely not.

No way.

No.
We're supposedly the only animal on the planet which is aware we are going to die. The punishment for being smart i think. Bad enough without having a countdown!

I think there'd be chaos if everyone knew how long they'd got left actually. Some would use it to escape the law. Like those purge films.

Yes.
I'd live my life to the full and not worry about after that date.
I rather like the idea of going to a funeral director and saying "I want to arrange a funeral. It is for me and will be on 15th August 2056. I'd like an Oak coffin and no flowers".
If I die in August 2056 I will come back and haunt you MissSBluebell

If I was told it was at 95 years then yes. But what if they said next Wednesday.

I definitely would, another control freak!

I wouldn't want to know. But I do try and live my life everyday as if death could happen at any time. I tell my daughter and my husband that I love them as much as I can without sounding weird and we have lots of kisses and cuddles. That's all that life really means to me. I'm content and that's what life is all about.

No thanks

I know it’s Normal and happens to us all . But it’s still
Pretty shit !

No, I don’t think I would.

Just asked DH and he wouldn’t want to know either.

Yes; it's inevitable anyway and knowing when it will happen would at least mean you could live your life with it all factored in.

I think I would like to know. Obviously I would be pretty sad to be told I had a very short time now as I am not that old. It would be great to know if I only had 5 or 10 years left etc as I would pack work in immediately and have some fun before it's too late.

My initial view is absolutely not - it would be like receiving the date for your execution.

But would part of the deal be that you were invincible until that date? So I could drink as much wine as I liked, eat as much junk food, and generally behave recklessly without altering the date? If so, that might be fun.

Yes I would like to know. Not much point scrimping to save for a retirement you will never see.

Nearer the time I might sell my house and rent somewhere. Strip back belongings to the bare minimum and spend my money having a good quality of life.

I think it only seems liberating when it's an impossible fantasy.

Hell no. My Dad died of cancer and the depression he had, knowing that he was dying, was almost the worst part of it all as he struggled to enjoy any of the time he had left.