If you had a choice to know the exact time of day and how you would die would you choose to know? 

Just a question Ive thought about before and wondered if others would choose as I would... I choose not to know. I like suprises! lol! 

Greetings Linz.

I agree with Larae on this.
There are just some things you really don`t want to know. This is one of them.

Kind regards,
Wilhelm

Hi Wilhelm:

Yes it would help to focus the present.  When I was 14 years of age I played with some numbers and came up with a number more than 4 decades in the future.  It was the weirdest feeling and I knew it was true, the date of my demise.  OK the year came and I was taken by surprise by what occured.  But as a precaution I started to complete certain projects.  It did pay off.  Somehow I survived.  What I don't know is why and what my purpose is in this life?

Brian .......................................V""V............
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I'd wanna know. I too, am "dying" to know what mission or whatever I hafta fulfill.

 I wouldn't want to know for the same reason as Larae said, I would obsess over it. The only perk I can see in knowing is you could take risks that maybe you wouldn't before such as sky diving, or deep sea diving.
  In theory you could say that since you know when you're going to die that knowing your fate would alter destiny, and thus a new fate would be assigned since there is cause and reaction in everything. Yet, maybe knowing your fate would in turn mean you were suppose to know and that enabled you to begin to live the life you didn't think you would... ah, too many parallels!

I would rather not know, and even if I did I don't think it could be avoided. When I was younger my mother worried about me going for walks late at night in our local graveyard, she worried that something would happen I upset her one night before I had left when I told her that if the fates have it wrote out that on that day I was to meet my demise it would happen no matter what I was doing, rather I stay home or not. I still see it this way, when the day comes it will happen till then I live my life to the fullest I can and do my best to make each day count.

Star

I have to agree with Erych...The only perk I can see in knowing is you could take risks that maybe you wouldn't before such as sky diving, or deep sea diving....
Because I took some chances that I wouldn't normaly do and came through OK.
Based on the belief it wasn't my time yet *LOL*  Those instances saved others lives and I received Citations.  But it was only afterwards the full impact of the danger sunk in. 

Brian ......................................V""V............
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I have a male friend who was convinced that he knew when he would die. All of the men in his family died at the same age (I believe it was 38), all different circumstances but none of them had made it past that age. His father, his grandfather, uncles, cousins, they all passed on at this age. Due to this he was convinced that he wouldn't make it past that age either, statistically speaking his odds were not good.

He lived his life wildly and with no plans for the future. Why make plans if you aren't going to be around to enjoy them? The years went on, the date was fast approaching, it seemed to be always on his mind. That fateful year, as each day went on he felt it was one day closer to death.

Somehow that day never came, a blessing he wasn't prepared for or expecting. He was quite shocked to have not only surpassed his fateful moment but beat the odds put into play generations before. On an even better note, somehow the cycle was broken, he is no longer the only man in his family to live beyond that age.

He told me that having that knowledge kept him from living. That not knowing would have made his life a lot different than it had become. Now he lives his life, that target was lifted from him and with it a new outlook on the world around him.

So if I had a choice to know when I would die, I would most definitely NOT want to know. It will happen when it is meant to happen, beyond that I feel ignorance is bliss.