Asklemmy

Causality issues aside, yes I would. Makes a big difference if I found out I had 40+ years left vs 5 years left.

Probably, yes. Imagine how superhuman you'd feel skydiving without a parachute outside the day of your death knowing you couldn't die. (plot twist: you spend 10 years in a coma afterwards and still die from doing it :/)

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.

Is it absolutely certain and nothing I can do to change it?

If so fuck yes I'm pretty much immortal tell that date.

Yes, so I can probably plan for it.

Is that a knife you're holding behind you?

Jokes aside this is a philosophical question, would knowing the answer let you change it? Would it be different if you didn't know the answer? How do you know that knowing the answer isn't part of the chain of events that leads to your death in such a situation?

What if the person offering was just scamming you and you lived thinking you'd die in 6 months but then it turns out it doesn't happen?

Yes. Be able to choose the right life insurance plan, investments, etc for my beneficiaries.

If the prediction cannot be altered I might. Because that way I basically have plot armor until I die.

If that information just reflects the current path I'm on but changes based on my actions I don't want to hear it.

Yes. I think it would add more value to the time I have now and would help me best prepare for my passing.

I don't know, if such a thing existed it would imply that free will doesn't exist, if you knew you would die in 10 hours of dehydration, what happens if you drank a bunch of water regularly?

In that scenario you can't die of dehydration but you're going to die of dehydration forcibly. So what's going to happen?

I can't process if I would do it or not because I don't know what it would imply!

I would 100% exploit this (insurance for family).

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'

Can I change it?

I got a scan that detected cancer which I was later able to get removed. That cancer would have probably killed me in five years.

If I get told that I'll die of cancer in twenty years, I'm going to deal with it in ten years.

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.

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.

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.

If I know the way that I die, through anything else I will survive.

Why not?

Knowing when means I can do whatever I want until the day it happens.

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.

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.

No, I don't want to see my expiration date every single time I close my eyes. That would just ruin whatever time I have left because that's all I would ever think about.

Uh yeah... So I can fuck some shit up and max my credit cards out

Yes.

Decide if I want to end it sooner if it’s going to drag on much longer.

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.

Sure it would help me adjust the plan

Of course I would, then I would hate myself for it. But I know I'd hate myself even more if I had the chance to know and not take it

Definitely. If I'm gonna die in the near future it'd make no sense to continue university.

No. I live to help people and continue making connections. I wouldn’t want to change that.

For sure. Though you can never really know. I look at death statics for my age and area every once in a while to adjust my risk taking or too see what health concerns I should be prepping for.

Knowledge is half the battle and all

I wouldn't want to know that. Imagine even if you get to know only a part of that knowledge, for instance, you get to know that you will die on a Tuesday or within a specific month. With that information in mind you would dread every upcoming Tuesday (or a specific month) and in the end it all may lead up to a self fulfilling prophecy.

Knowing the future and changing it are two different things