Doc - Hmmm...I'm not sure, are you suggesting so that you might be able to prevent it some how?
As in, if you knew you were going to die in an airplane crash you would swear off flying. If that's the case, then no, method of death is not part of the question.
How about knowing how so that if it were particularly gruesome that one could warn off any loved ones? I would prefer to save my family and friends from having to witness me come to a violent end. In the professional sphere, with such foreknowledge, I could draft the appropriate SITREPS for my shipmates to save them several hours of work in the aftermath.
All that having been said, I would want to know, but I wouldn't tell anyone until the day before. Having experienced the emotions leading up to a 6-mo Navy deployment, I suspect anticipation of this ultimate deployment would be magnified several hundredfold.
Why not? I thought I knew when and how it was going to happen within a few minutes back in 1972 in Laos and had accepted the fact that I was going to die. But obviously it did not happen. Come to think of it, with the condition of our country today, if it were not for the happy ensuing years of marriage to my wife and the joy of seeing my son grow, mature and become the man he has become I would have oppted for it to have happened then.
Already know it. My wife and I celebrate it every year and I get in a lot of trouble if I forget it.
ReplyDeleteI did the classic, "spit take" with my coffee this morning when I read this.
ReplyDeleteGreat answer.
I would want to know so that I could say goodbye to my family and friends and let them know that I'm going to be OK.
ReplyDeleteIf we threw in knowing the method of your death, would that change anything?
ReplyDeleteDoc - Hmmm...I'm not sure, are you suggesting so that you might be able to prevent it some how?
ReplyDeleteAs in, if you knew you were going to die in an airplane crash you would swear off flying. If that's the case, then no, method of death is not part of the question.
How about knowing how so that if it were particularly gruesome that one could warn off any loved ones? I would prefer to save my family and friends from having to witness me come to a violent end. In the professional sphere, with such foreknowledge, I could draft the appropriate SITREPS for my shipmates to save them several hours of work in the aftermath.
ReplyDeleteAll that having been said, I would want to know, but I wouldn't tell anyone until the day before. Having experienced the emotions leading up to a 6-mo Navy deployment, I suspect anticipation of this ultimate deployment would be magnified several hundredfold.
Why not? I thought I knew when and how it was going to happen within a few minutes back in 1972 in Laos and had accepted the fact that I was going to die. But obviously it did not happen. Come to think of it, with the condition of our country today, if it were not for the happy ensuing years of marriage to my wife and the joy of seeing my son grow, mature and become the man he has become I would have oppted for it to have happened then.
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