Causality issues aside, yes I would. Makes a big difference if I found out I had 40+ years left vs 5 years left.
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Dude you have like eighteen seconds
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Wouldn't have mattered either way then lol.
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 :/)
Yes, so I can probably plan for 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 think it would make me procrastinate worse, then become apathetic at the end because "I only have X time left .."
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.
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?
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.
The latter is an obvious smart deal to take. Just make sure to check yourself for cancer, not walking on a red light etc. according to the thing that kills you. Otherwise do the same. Odds are you would gain more time with your loved ones.
I'm still assuming death is inevitable at some point.
If I get "death by plane crash" for example, I don't necessarily have to fly for this to happen.
I would 100% exploit this (insurance for family).
If I know the way that I die, through anything else I will survive.
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 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!
You can dehydrate yourself by drinking too much water. You flush the salts out of your system and get water poisoning and die of dehydration anyway.
Yeah but my point was not drinking a huge amount, just enough not to have too much water or too little, like a glass of water every hour or something.
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
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 youβve always known you wanted to because you canβt 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.
I'd take a 1 year heads up warning
Definitely. If I'm gonna die in the near future it'd make no sense to continue university.
Probably not. Knowing this would be hard not to be consumed with a countdown.
And besides, it seems like living in a timeline where this kind of knowledge is even possible has so many other implications. Does the knowledge come with the scenario that everything you may try to do to stop it only puts you closer to the outcome?
If I knew the reason, chances are it would show "tried to cheat death" with a very close death time. I'd better off not knowing it; because I would definetly try to cheat against it. My lack of knowledge about it will let me live longer.
Yes so I can prepare.
Yes. Though I wouldnβt want to know the exact day if I could help that. Knowing the year or month would be enough to plan. To have a will. To say the things I want to say to those I care about. To make peace with the end. To do what I can of a bucket list and to feel a bit more secure up to that point not worrying about death.
Yeah. I come from a family of hoarders, and I'm a little cluttery myself. I always worry that I'll die unexpectedly and they'll be unable to part with god knows what random shit they find in my apartment. If I knew when I was gonna die, I'd schedule someone to come help me trash my belongings the day before. I'd set aside the actually nice stuff for them, but no one needs to convince themselves that a broken USB drive I used to keep porn on or a torn up canvas is super sentimental and they need to hold onto it forever.
Yes.
Decide if I want to end it sooner if itβs going to drag on much longer.
Ah, but if you decided to end it sooner after you'd seen that it would be a long ways off, then you'd fail in such a way that made you either unable or unwilling to try again.
No. It's all I would think about