MillyWould you want to know when your time's up?
October 28th 2006 12:24
Someone asked me recently if I would want to know when I was going to die. My immediate response was no. However, then I started thinking that maybe it wouldn't be so bad, because at least you could do all of the things that you wanted to accomplish.
I think I'd draw the line though when it comes to knowing how. My friend said that if you knew that you were going to fall off a cliff, for example, you could just avoid them. Maybe then it would be like Final Destination and death would somehow find you. Maybe a psycho killer would break into your house, drag you off to a mountain and hurl you over the edge.
So friends, what's it going to be? To know or not to know, that is the question....
I think I'd draw the line though when it comes to knowing how. My friend said that if you knew that you were going to fall off a cliff, for example, you could just avoid them. Maybe then it would be like Final Destination and death would somehow find you. Maybe a psycho killer would break into your house, drag you off to a mountain and hurl you over the edge.
So friends, what's it going to be? To know or not to know, that is the question....
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Comment by The Voices in my Head
The Voices in my Head
There is a simple beauty in taking life for granted.
I don't want to know any of it. Mainly because I have no idea what will happen when I die...where I will go, if there is a place to go after this life...
I don't want to know any of it. I am horribly afraid of death...mostly I suppose because I haven't lived enough yet. *shrug*
Voices~
Comment by Milly
Travel Adventures
The questioning mind
So do you believe in life after death or are you undecided? I think everyone is afraid of death, even those who pretend not to be. It's the not knowing what happens at the other side that kills us.
Comment by katyzzz
Photography Tips
MS Paint Art
You look ready to have children and look highly desirable. Are you doing anything about it?
katyzzz... saw you on that other site.
Do come over and visit me at Ms Paint Art... it's not just about computer art.
c u soon
Comment by Adrian
Philosophy Blog
Endings give things meaning -- like the way that the concept of apocalypse and linear time gives significance to human history.
Comment by MelissaA
Fun Facts
I had a great aunt living in a nursing home who went around to all of her friends there one night wanting them to come out somewhere or other and have a drink with her.
No body was really up for it, but she went around and tried out every single one of them.
She died that night in her sleep and the impression given by the way she'd asked people, with a seeming sense of urgency, pointed to the idea that she might have known she was going that night.
I've also heard similar stories from other people.