• Jolteon@lemmy.zip
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      12 days ago

      Ah, but if you decided to end it sooner after you’d seen that it would be a long ways off, then you’d fail in such a way that made you either unable or unwilling to try again.

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    12 days 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.

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      11 days ago

      Also for deciding when to retire or how much money you can/should spend to maximally enjoy your life.

  • DontTakeMySky@lemmy.world
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    12 days ago

    Yes. Then I’d hire a quantum physicist to study my timeline while I try to create a paradox and kill myself. I’m sure someone could learn some shit about how time works.

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    13 days ago

    No. None of the other 100+ billion people had that knowledge, I don’t want to be the only one.

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    I wouldn’t want to know that. Imagine even if you get to know only a part of that knowledge, for instance, you get to know that you will die on a Tuesday or within a specific month. With that information in mind you would dread every upcoming Tuesday (or a specific month) and in the end it all may lead up to a self fulfilling prophecy.

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    11 days ago

    I would. I could better plan out my life if I knew when and why it would end. If it comes back and says oh you dying 3 years from a brain aneurysm, I can’t be stopped… Then why would I be trying to plan out for retirement? I can take everything I have and live happy for 3 years. Without knowing I feel like my last thoughts would be ‘fuck, I wasted my life’

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    11 days ago

    I’m already dying of lymphoma but I’d like to know exactly when. The constant up and down of good days and bad days takes an emotional toll. If I knew I could relax completely and actually plan to do things.

  • saltesc@lemmy.world
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    13 days ago

    Yeah. Death doesn’t bother me since it’s fate. Knowing when would be handy for time management and something I could leverage. It’d be great to party at my own funeral too.