What do you think about the idea of knowing when you will die?

Bjonan · Post by **Bjonan** » 05 Mar 2018, 17:19

YOLO..i would not change that for anything, that kind of technology would change the whole meaning of life.[Living Is Fair Existence].

Dragosta · Post by **Dragosta** » 05 Mar 2018, 17:43

God's wisdom of not programming us (Human beings) in a way that we can predict the day we going to die is the cure and the main reason to keep us waking up every morning with a big hope and an optimistic spirits, making us dream big without barriers, and also most of the time we even forget that we are going to day oneday.
I Arabic the word "Human" means "Ensan", which is derived from "Nesyan" means (Forget), We've been called "Ensan" because we keep on forgetting the important things like DEATH, we forget the pain, the hard times we been through, and we just keep focusing on what we need to score success for the present and the near future.
Coming back to the question, My answer would say No

, I really do not want to know when I'm going to die.
I came on earth for a reason, and thank God I recently figured out what is that reason, what is last now is to read as much as I can so that I may go throughout my mind to years that my body won't have the chance to be there.

sepicatt · Post by **sepicatt** » 05 Mar 2018, 18:48

melissy370 wrote: ↑04 Mar 2018, 18:51 We should never play "God" and know when we will die. Strive everyday to tell your love ones how you feel. It is always a smart policy to have your will and assets in order as soon as possible. When all else fails have faith in the Lord to tie up loose ends.

My dad had been given 6 months to live after a diagnosis of cancer. he ended up living two more years, long enough to walk me down the isle for my wedding. He died the week after. He prayed that it was what he wanted to do, the last thing on his bucket list. Your quote reminded me of that.

McKenzieRyan · Post by **McKenzieRyan** » 05 Mar 2018, 22:18

I wouldn't want to know when I am going to die. I would spend to much time worrying about that time and being fixated on when I would die it would ruin the time I had left to live. I also wouldn't live life the same way as I do having no idea when I'm going to die. I think, for me anyway, it would make life less worth living.

Joy2thenations · Post by **Joy2thenations** » 05 Mar 2018, 23:45

Mjgarrison wrote: ↑02 Mar 2018, 10:55 As a Christian, I believe God's timing is perfect. I would not want to know because then I would let the fear of knowing rule my life. Right now I trust that God will take me when he's ready no matter what I know. So I'm just going to live my life to the best of my ability and try not to take anything or anyone for granted.

Those are pretty much my thoughts as well!

Aubrey Lewis · Post by **Aubrey Lewis** » 06 Mar 2018, 09:09

It's actually kind of scary when I think about it. For me, death is something inevitable, of course, but I would not want to know when I would die. It sort of takes the thrill away from living. However, it's also possible that if we do know, then we would spend our remaining time doing everything and anything we've ever wanted to do. So, if science would evolve into something advanced like this, I personally can't imagine what would really happen to the world.

Sharon Myles · Post by **Sharon Myles** » 06 Mar 2018, 10:14

If scientists ever get to discover that, it will be so amazing. However, I'd rather live without knowing. If I get to know my hour of demise I'll be jumpy throughout my life.

DathanReeves · Post by **DathanReeves** » 06 Mar 2018, 10:37

Plenty of people live like this already, albeit without so much precision. People with injuries or illnesses are given estimates from doctors, the elderly eventually accept their days are numbered, people in gangs and wars know their chances of living above 30 is slim, people I knew have even had divine intervention about their limited time with great accuracy. This scenario is less hypothetical than one may think.

That said, there will always be good and evil to every new creation. Groups and nations are formed to serve a higher, selfless purpose, but there is inevitably corruption, traitors, and hypocrites. Machines are invented to make life simpler and better, but the spector of greed is not biased. New medicines and hospital practices are made, but someone always finds a way to do harm using them.

I understand that characters in the book use their knowledge to do immoral things because they won't be alive long enough suffer the consequences. I have not read the book yet, so I don't know how the author addresses this, but the human condition does not stop all together because of one invention. If a person is killed, their family could sue the killer's family or make their live very difficult; gangs would avenge their brothers by killing the murderer's loved ones; etc.

People would eventually stop committing crimes just because they were given an expiration date. Humans would evolve.

literarycat · Post by **literarycat** » 06 Mar 2018, 11:10

qsusan wrote: ↑02 Mar 2018, 07:08 My feelings are summarised in the statement
"Knowledge bred incidence even as it protected us from incidence."
- (a personal quote from me)

Knowing allows us to shield against known dangers but the mere act of knowing creates even more dangers. This is why Adam and Eve were cast out of the Garden of Eden after they ate of the fruit of the Knowledge of Good and Evil. Because they knew, they could sin. If i am colour-blind and I say red is green, have I told a lie? No. Why? Because I do not know.
Knowing changes things. However, I think the message of this book is not to fear knowledge but to be aware that all knowledge is a two sided sword- it can protect but it can also harm- and to guard accordingly.

I couldn't agree more! Knowledge is everything while some say knowledge is power no one said whether that power is good or evil, Like you said it is a double edge sword, you have to take the good with the bad when it comes with knowledge. That being said I don't think I want to know when my time of death is. That is something I don't think we need to know.

Ballkjc2018 · Post by **Ballkjc2018** » 06 Mar 2018, 11:13

I don't believe that anyone can tell me when I am going to die the only one who knows this is God

Motherofcats1 · Post by **Motherofcats1** » 06 Mar 2018, 15:33

I wouldn't want to know. Life is just to short to fear when it's going to happen. I think knowing would just make me sad,instead of happy to spend it with family and friends.

Erikajoy94 · Post by **Erikajoy94** » 06 Mar 2018, 16:08

qsusan wrote: ↑02 Mar 2018, 07:08 My feelings are summarised in the statement
"Knowledge bred incidence even as it protected us from incidence."
- (a personal quote from me)

Knowing allows us to shield against known dangers but the mere act of knowing creates even more dangers. This is why Adam and Eve were cast out of the Garden of Eden after they ate of the fruit of the Knowledge of Good and Evil. Because they knew, they could sin. If i am colour-blind and I say red is green, have I told a lie? No. Why? Because I do not know.
Knowing changes things. However, I think the message of this book is not to fear knowledge but to be aware that all knowledge is a two sided sword- it can protect but it can also harm- and to guard accordingly.

That's such a good summary of the whole concept of predicting the future!
It makes me think of the stock market.... You may have insider information that something is going to happen to change the rate of exchange, but if you act on that, you open yourself up to a whole lot of problems!!!!

Aphroditelaughs · Post by **Aphroditelaughs** » 06 Mar 2018, 16:13

I wouldn't want to consciously know. I think I would become too focused on the event, and just feel despair. I would like to have some part of my consciousness know, so I could make plans, even if I didn't really understand my time frame.

Post by **Clinical1** » 06 Mar 2018, 17:05

My mother died suddenly in her sleep. The night before, she had a huge fight with my father, and they went to be not speaking. She never woke up.
If she had known she was going to die, I imagine their last night together would have been incredibly different. My father was depressed for months knowing the last works my mother heard from him were said in anger.

ssmithy · Post by **ssmithy** » 06 Mar 2018, 18:13

This is such an interesting topic and I have a feeling we will be asking ourselves these same questions more and more as new technology is released.

I personally would not want to know, but as a scientist myself it would be ethically difficult not to release this kind of technology. Just because I don't want to know, doesn't mean that the scientist/government should deny that privilege to others. That being said, I did not think about the violent ramifications of that knowledge before I read this book. I would have assumed that after finding out when you're going to die people would go home and be with loved ones or go to their favorite coffee shop one last time. But I guess it is some people's nature to react violently and impulsively when hearing the worst news. This has changed my mind a bit as to whether technology like this, if it were to exist, should be allowed in public hands. I'm just not sure.