Death,
If you could see it coming?

What if you could see it coming would you want to, know? My answer would have to be no. For all any of you know your death could come tommorow!
Unfortunately there is no way of proving that what if there was. If someone invented a device that said when you died, ( Not how ) Would you use it?
I wouldn't I mean who wants to know the exact month, day, and time of their own death?

So.... Would you want to know? ( Either way it would not come any quicker or slower )

This post has been edited by BuffaloHELP: Feb 18 2007, 09:00 AM

No Im fine not knowing.
Its bad enough knowing that eventually you will die. Knowing when would proably drive me crazy, Id probably go out and do all the stuf I was afraid to do, heck who knows I might just wind up getting myself killed be fore its time.
Not to mention what would happen after I died, Id be worried about going to hell, where Id be burried, who would get my stuff, how to take care of my loved ones.
See its already driving me crazy.

I have no interest of knowing when I will die or how will I die or something like that.. even if somehow I know when I day, I won't be necessary to think it, just let it flow with the time, then face it when it comes.

well why should we affraid of death.. we can't run from it, so it's better to face it

I dont want to know...

the mystery of death and dying keeps us from living....

we are trying to live for we always hope that the future will be better if not better will be longer...

I would want to know when my death is coming; unless, they telling me 80 years earlier...But it would be great if they would tell me of my death 1 week earlier. I would get ready for the death. Like, say good-bye to everybody I know. And eventually do some good things that I have never gotten to do over the years in my life.

So, I think it'll be pretty cool to know when you'd die. I'd try to be cool with it and all and just donate everything I have away.

I, for one, would think it's gonna be cool to know when I'd die. I could prepare for death, make funerary arrangements and stuff like that. (I don't want to lie down on a boring coffin/casket 6 feet under, I want to be "on my feet" in an obelisk of moderate height )

A few hours before I die, I'd gather all my friends together for one last party. I'd be the greatest host I have never been. Then a few minutes before I die, I'd sing for them. I'm still having difficulties choosing which song to sing. For one, there's Don McLean's American Pie:

"This will be the day that I die. This will be the day that I die..."

Then, there's also our national anthem Lupang Hinirang by Julian Felipe. The last lines go:

"Aming ligaya na pag may mang-aapi ang mamatay ng dahil sa iyo."
(...but it is glory ever when thou art wronged for us thy sons to suffer and die.)

Someone already did this before (in a movie) but she forced her death by overdosing on drugs before singing her last song. Another character, Selma (Bjork) from Dancer in the Dark, sang her last song before she was executed.

Gawd, I was so moved by that movie. Y'know what? Forget the obelisk and the the last party (or last supper, whichever), so long as I get to sing one last song before I die. I'd know exactly when I'd die and when I do, people will remember me as the one who sang "that morbidly chilling song so appropriate, it's as if he sensed what was coming." Not that spectacular, but still great and no one will be the wiser

No, I don't have a great voice, though. I'm no performer or diva

personally id hate to know when i was going to die, i think it would be quite scary to see death as well as you dont know what it will look like - it could look like you see in the movies or it could be something totally different.

If people knew when they were going to die lots of people would probably go crazy and try to get all things done that they currently have not done.

This post has been edited by CrazyRob: Feb 18 2007, 05:42 PM

It has its advantages knowning when you are going to die. I would try to do everything i wanted to, and i would enjoy at maximun my last moments in the earth. Also, if that device were going to tell me that my death is 70 years far, would be really pleasant but if it tells you that is only 1 year far, then there had be a real problem. I would now know what to do and it would live that last 1 year with a procupation and somewhat depressed.

Is better now to know, i think, but thats why everybody should enjoy their lifes as much as they can, even if they death is near or not.

After seeing all of your comments, I think I am going to change my mind about this death thing.