- Lettuce eat lettuce ( @Lettuceeatlettuce@lemmy.ml ) 40•3 months ago
Causality issues aside, yes I would. Makes a big difference if I found out I had 40+ years left vs 5 years left.
- intensely_human ( @intensely_human@lemm.ee ) 10•3 months ago
Dude you have like eighteen seconds
- KeenFlame ( @KeenFlame@feddit.nu ) 9•3 months ago
Quick, get this man gay sex and drugs
- Lettuce eat lettuce ( @Lettuceeatlettuce@lemmy.ml ) 1•3 months ago
Wouldn’t have mattered either way then lol.
- Gsus4 ( @Gsus4@programming.dev ) 29•3 months ago
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 :/)
- lemming934 ( @lemming934@lemmy.sdf.org ) 13•3 months ago
Yes, so I can probably plan for it.
- spaghetti_hitchens ( @spaghetti_hitchens@kbin.run ) 9•3 months ago
Yes. I think it would add more value to the time I have now and would help me best prepare for my passing.
- ouRKaoS ( @ouRKaoS@lemmy.today ) 3•3 months ago
I think it would make me procrastinate worse, then become apathetic at the end because “I only have X time left …”
- HobbitFoot ( @HobbitFoot@thelemmy.club ) English8•3 months ago
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.
- DudeDudenson ( @DudeDudenson@lemmings.world ) 8•3 months ago
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?
- Dekkia ( @Dekkia@this.doesnotcut.it ) 7•3 months ago
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.
- Urist ( @Urist@lemmy.ml ) English2•3 months ago
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.
- Dekkia ( @Dekkia@this.doesnotcut.it ) 2•3 months ago
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.
- axzxc1236 ( @axzxc1236@lemm.ee ) 6•3 months ago
I would 100% exploit this (insurance for family).
- Jojo, Lady of the West ( @Silentiea@lemmy.blahaj.zone ) 5•3 months ago
If I know the way that I die, through anything else I will survive.
- Chloë (she/her) ( @MicrondeMMMMMMM@lemmy.blahaj.zone ) 4•3 months ago
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!
- yngmnwntr ( @yngmnwntr@lemmy.ml ) 4•3 months ago
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.
- Chloë (she/her) ( @MicrondeMMMMMMM@lemmy.blahaj.zone ) 1•3 months ago
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.
- HelixDab2 ( @HelixDab2@lemm.ee ) 4•3 months ago
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.
- Mothra ( @Mothra@mander.xyz ) 3•3 months ago
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
- NoneOfUrBusiness ( @NoneOfUrBusiness@fedia.io ) 2•3 months ago
Definitely. If I’m gonna die in the near future it’d make no sense to continue university.
- GBU_28 ( @GBU_28@lemm.ee ) English2•3 months ago
I’d take a 1 year heads up warning
- TheFriar ( @TheFriar@lemm.ee ) 2•3 months ago
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 you’ve always known you wanted to because you can’t 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.