If doctors could read your genetic code and tell you with a fair degree of certainty when and how you would die, would you want to know? Explain your reasons.
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I always have the same reaction when someone asks me this question, and my answer is still NO.
If i knew when and where and how I'm going to die i would spend the time I've got left trying to find a way to stop it from happening and i wouldn't stop ruining my life until i get to a point where I'm dead.
we should enjoy the life that we are given as much as we can.
You never know what tomorrow might bring and that's the way it should be.
Knowing the exact time of your death bring you more pain and sorrow, like my Nana always used to say 'celebrate the happiness in life because they're few but worry the loses later because they're many', that's why i never take life for granted and take it as it comes without the knowledge of my future and how much i have left on earth.
No i would not want to know. The idea of somehow knowing or accidentally stumbling on such a thing, leaves me feeling anxious. If i did know, I would spend every moment looking at the clock strongly apprehensive of the countdown, thus failing to live life to the fullest.
No. I really wouldn't. I would rather not have to spend all my days and nights thinking about all the nitty-gritty details. Besides, people would start trying to keep from dying. To avoid a thing as inevitable as death would become a very unhealthy obsession for a lot of people and I refuse to be one of them :/
Honestly, the idea of dying has never really phased me and I wouldn't want to ever let it do so.
The Dominant answer for this question is bound to be no.And i also wouldnt want to know beacause even though there are more advantages to knowing when you are going to die than there are disadvantages,i just wouldnt like the idea of knowing when and where im going to die.
For people who say life wouldnt be lived to the fullest if u knew the exact time and location of your death i disagree with that.For example if i knew i was going to die the day after tomorrow,i dont think i would be writing on this blog at this moment i would probably be running down the street naked or doing something crazy,another example would be,if i were asked to jump off a cliff into the ocean i wouldnt even take it into consideration because to be frank the idea of fallen off a cliff fightenes me,but if i knew the exact place and time i would die and knew jumping off a cliff wouldnt kill me i would definetly attempt it.
I like everyone else so far would not want to know, however I feel that curiosity would eat at my soul to the point where I begged them to tell me anyways.
I'd like to believe that there are some things in life that are better left a mystery. In the case of death, it would be more for sanity sake. I feel the emotional trauma that comes with the realization of death being near at hand, or even existing, is far too great for most beings to handle.
There are people who fear death, there are people that don't know it exists but there are people who ant to die and are waiting to die. This is a 'sad but true' case for some.
I wouldn't want to know because if I did know, life would be like an exam and the clock ticking to get things done. Unfortunately, I am an extremely curious person.
Knowing that I have a feeble heart and that it would be hard for me to actually neglect knowing that my lifespan has been consciously curtailed, I wouldnt want to know.
It would be a total burden that will prevent me from making the best out of my last few days on this planet. My levels of anxiety will increase drastically chucking away the main purpose behind why a person would want to know when will death abduct them.
Not that I wouldn't want to live life at the peak, but knowing myself and, not underestimating, I think i'll be incapable of. The thought of having limited time to spend with my loved ones and not being able to accomplish what's on bucket list in time will haunt me.
I would not want to know. To know something so definite and finite would be cessation of the world as I know it, every moment and thought of my existence after such delicate knowledge would be tainted with the thoughts that it would be insignificant in lieu of approaching death. I feel I would forever be lost to the dread as it consumed me, as I probably would look for some way out of this foreseen event, perhaps avoid crossing roads or bungee jumping, which would simply RUIN the essence of 'living'!
There are those who react really positively to stressful news, and then there are those who just blow up upon receiving it.
I consider myself part of the latter.
So instead of living each day to my fullest because I know when I’m going to kick the bucket, I’d probably just begin whining about how unfair it is I have to die early ( if that was the age I was given). I just don’t know, because the risk of knowing you’ll die soon is just too much as compared to the relief one gets when one knows death will come much later.
Then again, I wonder if it is relief that comes to one who dies when they’re old.
Yes, I would want to know. It all depends on how one handles such information. In my case I would treasure it, keep it as a little reminder that time's ticking and I'll have to do all that i can to enjoy life and leave nothing for procrastination. We all take life so granted, we all live by the saying "there's always tomorrow", I don't think you'll enjoy your life to the max when you have a belief that you will die - just not now. Knowing the day of my death makes it easier for me to plan out my life knowing that my slip-ups would evidently be wasted precious time.
Definitely not!!
Life is meant to be lived to the fullest, no worries and no regrets. Finding out exactly how you're going to die, and when, simply sucks the joy and mystery out of life's greatness. Life may sometimes be "unfair" yet it has so many things to offer, and I would not want the thought of my death lingering in my head.
No matter how this question is said, I'd probably always say no. At least at this point of time.
I'd rather not know, mainly because I know myself well enough to say that if I did know when and how I was to die, I would get all paranoid and afraid of everything in life. i would get sad and probably spend the rest of my days sulking and crying and become irrational about everything. I would keep worrying keeping track of time much too closely and before I know it, I would've spent all my time worrying about the time and doing nothing in between.
As I have said before, and I'll say it again, life's uncertainty is what makes it interesting. Knowing my death would only create sorrow in my head. We live each day risking the chance of death to live life, do we not?
Well to begin with, If we knew when and how we are going to die because of our genetic code, it would be because of a health related reason and not because I got smacked down by a car or because I fell of a swing.
Therefore I would like to know how and when I die, because I could change my lifestyle to compliment my weaknesses in order to reduce the probability of dying for whatever reason.
To be honest I would like to know. Some people say that knowing the time of death is unnatural and that we shouldn't know because it takes away the ummm meaning or substance of our lives. As in we were all put onto this earth to do certain things and we all have a certain destiny and by knowing our the time of our deaths we would be changing it all. However, I still think I'd rather know. It would give me a chance on planning ahead and possibly doing everything that I've ever wanted to do; live life to the fullest as they say...
No. Definitely no. I wouldn't want to spend my entire life living in fear that very soon I'm going to die. We all are sure that one day we have to leave this planet, we all have to die. Then why know and worry now? Just live life to the fullest.
"The best thing about the future is that it only comes one day at a time." -Abraham Lincoln
I think I'd like to keep it that way too.
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