Patrick Swayze

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well today it was announced that Patrick Swayze has been diagnosed with cancer (prostate i think) and that he only has 5 weeks to live at the age of 55. he wasn't the greatest actor but he had some great movies, red dawn and roadhouse to name a few and he is in the middle of shooting for another film right now.


with that said i just thought i would ask the question that if possible, would you want to know how and when you would die?



personally i would not. i know that i am afraid of dying and if i knew how and when it would happen i wouldn't live my life the same way i do now. living in fear for the rest of whatever life i would have left would be horrible.
 
I'd rather not know when I die, but death does hang over me. I often ponder on what death is like, and is there any life after death. Only thing I wish for my death is to be Painless. The only thing that has and will ever bother me about death, is that I will not be known after it. Alas, I doubt that it will ever happen.

Still it sucks to be Patrick Swayze, my mother will be devastated, and I think our TV's will be subject to the horrors of Dirty Dancing, Ghost and the likes.
 
I heard that the 5 weeks things was an exaggeration and things are looking slightly more optimistic. I think it was pancreatic cancer.

If I were to die young in some kind of accident I wouldn't want to know about it. I could see myself easily spending the rest of my life depressed or going crazy. Painless would also be nice but hey you cant have everything.

This makes me think of a video I saw today at a driver ed course. It was real footage of a girl celebrating her 18th party, then it cut to her and three friends in a bloody car wreck. It was shocking, and she suffered before her death. Certainly I would never want to know if this were to happen to me as I could live life normally up to that point.

If however, I had a disease and it was uncertain whether I would live or die, I'd rather know. That way I could come to terms with what was happening and not live in false hope.

Yeah its not a very nice subject...
 
I would love to know. It would allow me to plan exactly how to live the rest of my life and give me far more incentive to stop working.
 
I wouldn't want to know. But I do remain that there are some things worse than death. I would hate if I got in an accident or something and my family kept me on life support, or something happened to make it so that I could no longer take care of myself...

So yeah, basically, no, I don't want to know when I die. But I'd prefer death over some ways of life.
 
Hell no I wouldn't want to know. On any given day, some medical crap might be discovered and 'cure' you or prolong you. Say you went out and lived your last few weeks and do everything you wanted, but god forbid it turns out, you now have an extra year to live. That's going to be a long ass fucking year in agony.
 
Indeed. Well, if my death was inevitable and my life expectancy was short. However, I'd never want to know out of curiosty when my life is in front of me. Or, if I was going to die to something other than age, and it would happen within years, I'd want that to be kept from me.

Yeah, like others have before, it is an exaggeration. Hopefully, the dirty dancer will live on.

His song "she's like the wind" is always playing in my playlist, what a classic.
 
Aeroblacktyl said:
Hell no I wouldn't want to know. On any given day, some medical crap might be discovered and 'cure' you or prolong you. Say you went out and lived your last few weeks and do everything you wanted, but god forbid it turns out, you now have an extra year to live. That's going to be a long ass fucking year in agony.
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haha, some guy locally did something similar - was told he was dying of some incurable disease or other, sold his house, travelled the world, played with a few hookers, gambled, drank, smoked it all away - then the hospital called and went "erm, sorry, we fucked up, you're fine"
 
Ack! I have just had a relative die of cancer and my mom is going through chemo right now.

This is just plain uncool, even if it is a celebrity.

I'd rather be in control of when I die. One of those "Jump out of the plane or I pull this trigger!" kind of moments...either way, lots of adrenaline!
 
I like to believe that in the future, a scientist would invent something that will make us immortal, well not really but something that will make us 18 forever and not die...
 
Hearing this about P-Swayze is such a bummer, Red Dawn is seriously one of my favorite movies of all time...

While I wouldn't personally want to know when I was going to die, knowing would give you some crazy motivation to get out there and accomplish something. Something like Red Dawn 2.
 
tuskate said:
While I wouldn't personally want to know when I was going to die, knowing would give you some crazy motivation to get out there and accomplish something. Something like Red Dawn 2.
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Yeah knowing when you would die would definately give people alot of motivation to do things they've always wanted. Im not to sure that Red Dawn 2 would be made, hope your wish comes true...

Erm.. theres been times when I worry about dying, which leads to me not wanting to sleep in case I die in my sleep. I know its silly... but I guess I'd rather know when I'm dying (have family/wife by my side) instead of just to past away un-noticed in my sleep.

Then other times I'm like "fuck death, I aint scared". But I do wish I live long ( over 80 )

At the moment with my diet and lack of activities that doesnt seem likely =(
 
This is a hard question to answer =/. I guess I would like to know when I am going to die, because it gives me a set time to do whatever I desire with the knowledge that there will practically be no consequences. There's so much to do in the world that you can't do because of the long term effects: drinking, gambling, smoking (even though I never would), or taking a sabbatical to tour the world.

I only wish that it would be painless, as I don't want to have to suffer a pain worse than death. I would probably use my last days to find God and absolve sin, if you know what I mean (read: cheapshot into heaven).

Then again, it would really suck to find out after you dedicate your life to a deity just to find out that there is no life after death... theoretically speaking.
 
I just thought about something; if you was given a set date to live, and you wanted to do many things in your life, wouldn't you also be a threat to the public?

If you're going to die, wouldn't many be tempted to rape, steal and murder people? It seems like it's not going to matter, and being told you will die isn't going to help your mentality which could cause you to do stupid things.
 
hmmm, I get what your saying. Its like peoples morals go out the window. One example of this is certain people who are diagnosed with aids/hiv, end up having unpretected sex with people.
 
It's like the government keeping dangerous information from leaking out to the public. We can't be so sure what they have from us, and it could potentially cause people to lose care for their lives and others. Which would then automatically put everyone in danger, which isn't very exciting, obviously.
 
vespa said:
and then he sued his doctor for malpractice and won a very large sum of money. he was from the USA btw
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There was a dude from england who had that happen, last thing I heard he was trying to sue the hospital, yeah.

Idiot. One would have thought that if you're told you're going to die you'd get a second opinion.

Taylor said:
If you're going to die, wouldn't many be tempted to rape, steal and murder people?
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I really don't like this assumption that the terminally ill are homicidal klepto rapists!
People's inherent morality doesn't stop working just because they've got tit cancer or what not..
 
Don't you think that people won't be tempted to commit a crime because their life will be cut short? If I was told I was going to die...I know the way I act, live, etc. would change.
 
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