If it were possible to know the exact date, time and location of your death, would you choose to?

I would like to know the date, time, and location of my death.... but not the manner of my death. I think the excitement would be intense as that time, date, and location drew near and the efforts I would take to make sure I was not in that location on that date at that time. Wow what a rush!1 day 6.75 hours till my scheduled death in New York City... tick tock tick tock but I am in Ohio or Idaho or Mexico and have no plans to return to NYC in the next 30.75 hours.. what will happen to me if I am not in the specified location?

Can I beat the system and disrupt fate? This would be very exciting to me. I would have a great time figuring the "How do I beat this" puzzle out and I think the location would be the key.. just make sure I was moving away from the location of my death as the time and date approaches...and see what fate brings.

Although it would be very unfortunate if I found out right now that the date was today, the time was now, and the location was right here on Mahalo Answers as I finished typing this answer. I would roll the dice and see.

No, I wouldn't. Here's why: Death is a motivating factor for a number of people. I think that a lot of people (myself included) see death as the end of the race.

Beyond anything you may believe about spirituality or being, death marks an event where we stop being able to influence the world we live in. In 2005, Steve Jobs gave a commencement speech at Stanford. In the speech, he talks about his own brush with death and how he uses it as motivation to take risks.

Jump ahead to 8:55 if you don't want to hear the full speech. youtube.com/watch?v=UF8uR6Z6KLc#t=8m55s I wrote a little bit more about this video on my blog RobIsIT.com , but in essence, if I knew when and where I was going to die, it would negatively impact my life.

Nah, I believe, if you ask me right now, I'd say no thanks. However, given my moody nature, I may come back for asking the details! Right now though, I have so many things to do, which I won't even aspire to do if I get to know the details.

I'd like to keep it this way for now, whatever the date/time/place is ;) -Browneyed (happens to be a life-lover too! ).

No, I wouldn't want to know because I think life's better when you have surprises--one of those surprises is when you die. You don't know if it'll be today, tomorrow, next month or when you're 83. The bottom line is that if you knew, you'd change the way you live your life because you're constantly thinking about dying.

Not the way I'd want to live my life. What if you and I were both going to die 1 minute from now, right in the very chair we're sitting in? If you knew these facts, the next 60 seconds would be intensely agonizing, as you wait for your impending doom.

Sweat would bead up on your forhead as you counted the seconds and thought about all the things you haven't done in life but wanted to do... or whom to call to tell them you loved them, because you don't do it often enough. I, on the other hand, would be happily answering this question because I found the topic interesting, and enjoy answering questions here on maha.

I would absolutely want to know. If you were going to die young, you would live life more carefree, wouldn't worry about saving for the future, etc. If you were going to live to a ripe old age, you know you'll have time to accomplish what you want, be prepared. There also is the ability to say your good-byes to family and friends, prepare your kids, make sure everyone is taken care of properly.

I would absolutely want to know.

Only if it were sometime soon then i'd tried to get a lot of stuff done first. Otherwise I wouldn't care. Give me like a 1 month warning, or maybe a year.

I cant really gove you an answer,but what I can give you is a way to a solution, that is you have to find the anglde that you relate to or peaks your interest. A good paper is one that people get drawn into because it reaches them ln some way.As for me WW11 to me, I think of the holocaust and the effect it had on the survivors, their families and those who stood by and did nothing until it was too late.