• CaptPretentious@lemmy.world
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    5 months 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’

  • Dekkia@this.doesnotcut.it
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    5 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@lemmy.mlEnglish
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      5 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@this.doesnotcut.it
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        5 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.

  • DontTakeMySky@lemmy.world
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    5 months 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.

  • nicerdicer@sh.itjust.works
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    5 months ago

    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.

  • jordanlund@lemmy.world
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    5 months ago

    I mean, permanently or temporarily? Apparently my heart has been stopping on and off randomly all year. :(

    Get this… I was in the hospital in January. I wake up, check my phone… Nurse comes in.

    “Were you asleep about an hour ago?”

    “Yeah, why?”

    “Your heart stopped for 8 seconds.”

    “. . . Um… ‘thank you’? I’m not sure what I’m supposed to do with that information…”

    Apparently it happened a few more times in March. I have an implanted heart monitor now, always watching.

    • Mothra@mander.xyz
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      5 months ago

      Amazing, from your “apparently” I take you were never awake when it happened. I wanted to ask how it feels. I have an arrhythmia that gets my heart either fluttering or skipping a beat but it happens like a couple of times a year. It feels super weird.

      • jordanlund@lemmy.world
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        5 months ago

        I’ve had a-fib and congestive heart failure, 2 heart attacks, and open heart surgery.

        Each of the times my heart has stopped, I was asleep, no awareness of it until the doctors and nurses told me.

        With the heart monitor, I can press a button when something feels “off”, and report symptoms like being dizzy or passing out. Doc says I’ve been getting extra heartbeats sometimes. Low blood pressure has been a problem too.

        When I pass out from low blood pressure, the first thing is I get super dizzy. Then a ringing in my ears so loud I can’t hear anything. Then my vision closes in and turns red and I wake up on the floor.

  • saltesc@lemmy.world
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    5 months 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.