To know what will kill you and when has to be the
greatest gift EVER. How differently we’d all live our lives if we knew that. Like
if you knew you were going to die in a car accident, you wouldn’t have to worry
about high cholesterol. And if you knew when you were going to pop your clogs,
you could plan accordingly (like, not go to work the day of, for example).
Amen sister. That concept of 'live every day as if it were your last' can't be true though, or we would never go to work in the first place.
ReplyDeleteHell, yeah... no way I am going to work on my last day alive. But I probably shall - as a greeter in Wal-Mart, because at the rate I am going, I am never going to be able to afford to retire.
DeleteSo first, I would disagree that Valerie Harper is lucky--I'm sure she'd rather not die at this point.
ReplyDeleteSecond, how do you know what you're going to die of doesn't change? For example, you find out you're going to die in a car accident, so you don't bother taking care of yourself--so you die of a heart attack before the accident? Or you find out you're going to die of lung cancer, so you stop smoking. Now what will you die of? You no longer know. Will the universe tell you every time your cause of death changes?
Third, I don't know that most people *would* live their lives any differently. We all currently do things every day that we know will kill us or make us sick, but we still do them.
Nope. I'd just as soon not know.
But that's just me. ;-)