The End of the World
by Presence
If you had the ability to know the exact date and time that you were going to die, and how you were going to die, would you want to?
If you had the ability to know the exact date and time that you were going to die, and how you were going to die, would you want to?
yes so I could plan for it accordingly and live out my life until that time comes, instead of worrying about the future…isn’t that living in the moment…we should all do that, despite the fears.
thats my answer…
Very interesting! Quite a few would contend that knowing the exact time and date of our death would spoil what remaining time we had left. But with no worries of the future or the past, would the knowledge of the date of our death even matter?
Is it possible to plan and live simultaneously in the present moment in the chance that one should learn he/she was going to die one minute from learning the date and time of our demise!?
No, I do not want to know when and how I die. I would worry that I would not have enough time to do all the things I want to do and learn all the things I want to learn. I would rather live on my time and on my terms. What is the point of knowing? Death will come anyway and overall we are very small and insignificant parts of the Universe. “Preparing” for death sounds dreadful to me. But, if I get a cancer, doctors will probably tell me how long I will live anyway. Then I will need a stiff drink!
Do you mean to say that each of us is individually insignificant, or “we” as a whole, in comparison with the vastness of the universe? Perhaps that is analogous to the uncertainty with which one might find out the fate of his/her own demise, Elizabeth? In which case, what would be the point in knowing!?
In Buddhism, there is a strong emphasis on the law of impermance. Impermance, I believe, is the key to knowing anything about life and death. i.e. that all things change. Even on the micro level continous change is occuring. The moments before, during and after death are all one. A form of evolution.
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Walter
Walter your artwork, anybody’s artwork, speaks of this very evolution; wherever it’s in the very moment of creating, living, doing something one truly loves to do, is where it can be like there is no time… “the end of the world,” so to speak, where the artist can live and die with each mindful moment.
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I would like some kind of notification one year before my death-date. That way I can spend my final year ensuring I have the chance to properly day goodbye to loved ones. However, I wouldn’t want to know today if I were going to die on a Tuesday in June 30 years from now because that day would just become an obsession…I would spend too much time fixating on my doomsday and even try to change my fate rather than accept it.
It is everyone’s fate! and whether the day is next year or a Wednesday in November, 111 years from today; to be able to put living into full gear during that last year, or if one should learn the date was many years away, one can only put living into full gear right now. The comment begs the question, perhaps a question you want to ask yourself… what is a proper goodbye?
“For those that think death’s honesty, won’t come upon them naturally, life must sometimes get lonely.” -Bob Dylan