| Author |
|
Brian Floyd
Byrne Robotics Member
Joined: 07 July 2006
Location: United States
Posts: 8348
|
| Posted: 24 January 2020 at 11:59pm | IP Logged | 1
|
post reply
|
|
No, I would not want to know.
*Maybe* if it was of old age and in my sleep, but otherwise OH, HELL NO!
|
| Back to Top |
profile
| search
e-mail
|
| |
Doug Centers
Byrne Robotics Member
Joined: 17 February 2014
Location: United States
Posts: 5458
|
| Posted: 25 January 2020 at 5:36am | IP Logged | 2
|
post reply
|
|
I'm thinking if I knew, I would come to accept it and given time, embrace that knowledge to use as motivation to make things right in my remaining days.
|
| Back to Top |
profile
| search
|
| |
Eric Sofer
Byrne Robotics Member
Joined: 31 January 2014
Location: United States
Posts: 4789
|
| Posted: 25 January 2020 at 1:45pm | IP Logged | 3
|
post reply
|
|
Doug - No argument, but a consideration... mightn't it be worthwhile to make things right now anyhow?
|
| Back to Top |
profile
| search
|
| |
Doug Centers
Byrne Robotics Member
Joined: 17 February 2014
Location: United States
Posts: 5458
|
| Posted: 25 January 2020 at 3:16pm | IP Logged | 4
|
post reply
|
|
Yeah Eric, probably not the phrase I was looking for. I meant, as the time came near I could make sure to visit people and places a final time. Nothing really for me to get "right".
|
| Back to Top |
profile
| search
|
| |
Eric Sofer
Byrne Robotics Member
Joined: 31 January 2014
Location: United States
Posts: 4789
|
| Posted: 25 January 2020 at 5:22pm | IP Logged | 5
|
post reply
|
|
I was not challenging your phrasing, my friend. I just meant... at some point, you have seen your friends and family for the last time. In the real world case, you just don't know when. So make every visit worthy of a "last visit" memory, and have no regrets.
|
| Back to Top |
profile
| search
|
| |
Ray Brady
Byrne Robotics Member
Joined: 16 April 2004
Location: United States
Posts: 3740
|
| Posted: 25 January 2020 at 6:06pm | IP Logged | 6
|
post reply
|
|
A Stephen Wright joke:
My wife asked me if I would want to know exactly how and when I was going to die. I said, "no way."
She said, "Never mind then."
|
| Back to Top |
profile
| search
| www
|
| |
Rebecca Jansen
Byrne Robotics Member
Joined: 12 February 2018
Location: Canada
Posts: 4495
|
| Posted: 25 January 2020 at 11:23pm | IP Logged | 7
|
post reply
|
|
If I couldn't change it, no.
|
| Back to Top |
profile
| search
| www
e-mail
|
| |
Doug Centers
Byrne Robotics Member
Joined: 17 February 2014
Location: United States
Posts: 5458
|
| Posted: 26 January 2020 at 5:52am | IP Logged | 8
|
post reply
|
|
Eric- I get where you're coming from, no regrets from me, but visiting someone, knowing this will be the last time you see them Ever would probably be a different kind of visit than the casual get together. For me anyway.
|
| Back to Top |
profile
| search
|
| |
John Byrne
Grumpy Old Guy
Joined: 11 May 2005
Posts: 132234
|
| Posted: 26 January 2020 at 7:37am | IP Logged | 9
|
post reply
|
|
I’ve participated in a deathwatch twice, for my mother-in-law and for a dear friend. There is a complex jumble of emotions that comes with spending time with someone, knowing that literally any minute could be their last. (Of course, this is true of anyone, on any day, but we don’t know it.)
|
| Back to Top |
profile
| search
|
| |
Marc Baptiste
Byrne Robotics Member
Joined: 17 June 2004
Location: United States
Posts: 3655
|
| Posted: 26 January 2020 at 11:06am | IP Logged | 10
|
post reply
|
|
I would not want to know. I also think on a mass scale, such knowledge might result in a reverse "butterfly effect" - too many people who knew the end was imminent would start doing the more EVIL things on their bucket list.
Marc
|
| Back to Top |
profile
| search
|
| |
Nathan Greno
Byrne Robotics Member
Joined: 20 April 2006
Location: United States
Posts: 9154
|
| Posted: 26 January 2020 at 11:40am | IP Logged | 11
|
post reply
|
|
JB: Keeping in mind that this question does not present an opportunity to avoid your fate, would you want to know?
--
Nope.
|
| Back to Top |
profile
| search
|
| |
Nathan Greno
Byrne Robotics Member
Joined: 20 April 2006
Location: United States
Posts: 9154
|
| Posted: 26 January 2020 at 11:42am | IP Logged | 12
|
post reply
|
|
I seem to remember a thread where JB predicted the date of his death...
Anyone else recall this?
|
| Back to Top |
profile
| search
|
| |
