Ok, I was watching the Bucket List and there is a point in the movie where the Morgan Freeman character asks the question... if you knew the exact date that you were going to die, would you like to know? And it got me thinking that what I would want and that would be no. If I knew, my anxiety would probably consume me compared to if I didn't know and just live my life without the impending inevitablilty. So let me pose this question to you guys... would you want to know when you are going to die? yes or no and why? And by the way, the movie is good...

I would not want to know...I think if I knew, I would worry all day, waiting for it to happen...Plus think about how I can avoid it..*thinking to self, maybe if I stay in a closet all day long, I can avoid being hit by anything....wait?! How am I going to die, that's important*....

NOT BEFORE 75. I couldn't careless after 75, don't expect live much longer after that

Of course there is a website you can find out of your death time, if you dare
The Death Clock - When Am I Going To Die?

I dared, I was feeling saucy..and my personal death date is:

Your Personal Day of Death is...
Sunday, August 28, 2050


I won't quite make it to 75..I'll be 74 and 2 1/2 months.

I would want to know. I hate surprises. I just rented the move but haven't started. Glad to hear it's good. I love the life affirming type movies.

Just a note, Brad Pitt has one coming out xmas

Apple - Trailers - The Curious Case of Benjamin Button

Sort of like my fav audiobook, The Confessions of Max Tivoli.

"For an artist to always evolve, they must wear their hearts on their sleeve and feel pain as much as they feel pleasure" A quote for my upcoming artwork.

This thread reminds me of a movie called "Too tired to Die", starring Takeshi Kaneshiro and Mira Sorvino (am/wf). I don't know if anyone has seen this movie before...briefly it's about Takeshi living in NYC from japan, and Mira Sorvino appears as an angel or something and tells him that he's gonna die today at some time...then he starts going thru NYC to do the last things he wants to do before he dies....it's an ok movie....but after seeing that movie, I would not like to know when I die, just live my life to it's fullest while I'm alive!!

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I don't want to know...but since I went to that website (couldn't resist...darn it) I will kick the bucket on September 14, 2049. I wonder what I'll do till then...

This is an interesting question.

I would guess that knowing your exact birth date could be a blessing or curse depending on the choices you make once learning it.

It might be a good thing in the sense that it might introduce a lot of urgency into your life and motivate you to not just drift and take life for granted. I think people forget about their own mortality as they go about their everyday life only to be faced with it in a very sudden way at a point in their lives. (Cancer Diagnosis and other terminal diseases). So knowing the day you leave the earth might give you a sense of clarity and purpose.

On the other hand it could be a very heavy weight and every coming day could be more ominous. Your life might be consumed and you might constantly obsess about how many days you have left.

So it depends on how you react to the information. But its still a gamble, for I think if someone chose to know their date and it happened to be quite far off in the future that it might tend to be beneficial to know, whereas if you chose to know and it happened to be in the near or very near future it would be detrimental to know. The reason being if your date is in the far future, you would have time to come to grips with that reality, to digest it and to accept it and rearrange your life and priorities accordingly, whereas if it was in the near future it would be hard to do anything but to panic and spend your remaining days in a state of mental chaos.

All in all though, in the end i think i would ultimately choose not to know. Death as a motivator for life doesn't seem to me to be a good way of living.

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