What if you knew when you will die?

After my first cancer diagnosis in 2003, I decided to start doing things that I didn't have time for. My doctor said I couldn't go to my paid jobs, but he didn't say that I had to stay at home. I took that time to start spending more time volunteering at the Red Cross. I couldn't do much field work, but I did get a lot of the paperwork in disaster services caught up. It was something I wanted to do for a long time, but didn't have time for because I was working two jobs. I don't do too much right now because I am in chemo again for a cancer recurrence. You don't realize until something like that happens to you that life is short and you don't know when it will end. Once I get done with chemo this summer, I will try to get out and do some things that I have not done before and I will see if I can get a job teaching English again. To me, it is important to help people but I am hesitant to do too much when my immune system is weakened from the chemo. Thanks for bringing this up!

"If I knew that I was going to die tomorrow, I'd do everything the same way as I did yesterday, because that's how important those little things that I do are to me." I got that from an anime, and I somehow feel that's exactly what I'd do. I guess I'd tell everyone I love how much I love them too and make something for them to always remember me by.

that will be very scary, isn't it??? that's why God doesn't let us know when He will call us back to our eternal home... i think it is better not to know when we will die... otherwise, we will leave each day in fear... take care and have a nice day...

I've always agree on living life to the fullest. SOme people, especially parents are always telling us to think, save up for the future. To them, everybody's lifespan are the same, being able to live til at least 60s or 70s without any health problems or accidents. Whenever i tell them that, they would nag at me again because they failed to see my point. When i tell my friends the same thing, they do fail to see it. I'm wondering if i'm on the wrong side of life, or they are just sticking to the schedule of life?

I always treat each day as any day that i will die. We should always be ready for that day. That's why every night, before i sleep, i would always ask forgiveness from God for whatever known and unknown bad things that i may have committed. If i will know the date when i will die, i will see to it that i will always be with my loved ones and spend happy moments with them. I will try to be the kindest of them all.

it's jsut somehow related to 'what if regret comes before consequences?'. life is designed this way by Him because we learn from what we are experiencing and if we die and we would know when that would be, the balance of nature gets distorted. everyone will be generous. nobody will boast and love will be all around the universe. the earth follows yin-yang- black and white; good and bad. if the balance gets disturbed then no way for us to grow and learn and develop our own intellect. living life to the fullest doesn't mean you have to always be happy and be good. human as we are, we commit mishaps in life and we also excel on the other. life is so mesterious that nobody can REALLY predict what's gonna happen next so let's just do whatever it is that isn't only good for oneself but for everyone. life is beautiful even if you don't know when is thy own appocalypse.='.'=

Without undestand of life and live long there are no meaning, but with understand of life and live little bits that is life. Every movement we live are part of life and we have to keep thing is " We really die one day, we satisfied with precious mintus which i had done somthing or i done well till my best?

Oh so that's what Veronika decides to die is about! Hmm.. I absolutely love Paulo Coelho and his books. I guess if I knew I would die, I'd quit school and do the things I wanna do. I'll spend each waking moment with my loved ones. :)

to die instantly and not knowing that it is already the end..... instead of dying with extreme pain.....

We don't have to know when we will die before we start to live, since all of us then can calculate the time that we will do good deeds so we can enter heaven. It will defeat the purpose of evil in this world; I mean evil exist so that we can truly know the good. It's impossible to think about a world where there is no evil, though God gave man the wisdom to know the difference. Living a life full of learnings from past experiences, being able to leave a legacy when you finally go to the next life, that for me is living my life to the fullest.

Living your life to the fullest is like thinking that your time is near. And yes it's ironic but others didn't value the real essence of living, not until they realize that there's so much that they've missed...and there's not enough time.