Imagine a countdown on life...

[FactualFrank]

It's my cousin's funeral tomorrow and it made me think.

Sure - we aren't going to live forever. We know that.

But imagine an actual countdown, which stated how many weeks, months or years you had left. Do you think people would act with more thought, respect and consideration for eachother? And would we care less about a football result?

And another question - would you want to know how long you had left?

[Steve1956]

Chill Frank,enjoy life,dont think to much about it.

[Aclaret]

If the countdown of life was a week, 10 years for a day, I would be Saturday tea time
Crikey my weeks not got long left.

[claretblue]

If the countdown of life was a week, 10 years for a day, I would be Saturday tea time
Crikey my weeks not got long left.

stop wasting your precious time on here!

[Rick_Muller]

I wouldn’t want to see my clock, it would make me more anxious about mistakes I’ve made and cannot change and a future I can only see decreasing. There’s some truth in live every day as if it was your last, because it may well be.

[GodIsADeeJay81]

Logan's Run or In Time are films about lives with a certain duration.

Not much would change I don't think.

[FactualFrank]

I wouldn’t want to see my clock, it would make me more anxious about mistakes I’ve made and cannot change and a future I can only see decreasing.

But it could equally make you be sure to spend every day doing as much as you could. As each day it shows on the countdown as a day less. I think it would be a massive psychological advantage, overall.

[tim_noone]

"What a Beautiful Day"

[Vegas Claret]

a clock would be brilliant, would give everyone the chance to sort their **** out in time

[joey13]

It's my cousin's funeral tomorrow and it made me think.

Sure - we aren't going to live forever. We know that.

But imagine an actual countdown, which stated how many weeks, months or years you had left. Do you think people would act with more thought, respect and consideration for eachother? And would we care less about a football result?

And another question - would you want to know how long you had left?

Having received this news recently, I’ve always treated people with respect and consideration in real life (although I’m sure many on here would disagree)

And yes I still care about our results and I’m trying to get to see as many matches as possible while I can
Knowing does help to get affairs in order

[Bfcboyo]

It's my cousin's funeral tomorrow and it made me think.

Sure - we aren't going to live forever. We know that.

But imagine an actual countdown, which stated how many weeks, months or years you had left. Do you think people would act with more thought, respect and consideration for eachother? And would we care less about a football result?

And another question - would you want to know how long you had left?

Possibly or become reckless maniacs in the last 12 months.

[PutTheWheelieBinsOut]

Not for me.

Not knowing is part of the fun of it.

Imagine if every one knew, it would be chaos, announcements at half time at the Turf, Jack Smith - soon to die Tuesday. The fake sympathy, at work - people preparing their cv in advance in your own death so they can get to the front of the queue. facebook posts giving their own personal countdown each day. Noooooo

[FactualFrank]

announcements at half time at the Turf, Jack Smith - soon to die Tuesday.

[FactualFrank]

PutTheWheelieBinsOut - would this excuse people leaving early?

"Why are you leaving early, there's 5 minutes to go yet"
Reply: "He dies in 3 minutes, we want a pie".

[MACCA]

I'd like to know if there was a countdown clock.

I'd not waste a single second of my time.
I know we all try, or think we try not to waste time, but in truth we all do, and probably a hell of a lot of it.

I think we would all act very different towards others, as well as life in general if we knew what was coming and when.

I'd certainly not be writing this post if I knew I only had a short time left on this earth.

[yorkyclaret]

Just enough time to delete browsing history would be enough for me.....er, I meant most people.

[happyclaret17]

Chill Frank,enjoy life,dont think to much about it.

yep
what steve said....its the journey that counts...we all end up in same destination ( well one of 2 places )

[pauliopaulio]

I'd like to know if there was a countdown clock.

I'd not waste a single second of my time. [...]

I'd certainly not be writing this post if I knew I only had a short time left on this earth.

Picking on Macca but a few comments like this. Whether we can see it or not there is countdown clock ticking for all of us. I think Steve Jobs said something along the lines of if he spends too many days looking in the mirror wishing he was doing something else it’s time to change.

Life is short, life is precious. We all think we’ll live forever and don’t realise time is our most valuable asset. Make the most of it x

[HatfieldClaret]

You could only vote if you had more than 5 years left
To the back of the queue for knee and hip replacements
Less than a year left you can spend all your money on women of ill repute
Your kids suddenly trying to curry favour with you

would change a lot of lives...... only in the short term mind.

[FactualFrank]

Whether we can see it or not there is countdown clock ticking for all of us.

yep
what steve said....its the journey that counts...we all end up in same destination ( well one of 2 places )

But all that goes without saying. It's not about that. We all die some day - that's not the point of the thread.

It's about knowing how long you have left, and whether you would like to know. It's the thinking behind that.

[cricketfieldclarets]

Forget that. It could be tomorrow. Could be in a hundred years. Knowing would be ****. It wouldn't improve life in a positive way.

Its important to live every day like its your last. But its also important to know that you dont have to be doing something all the time. Its like anything. Balance. Sometimes its good to do fcuk all. Sometimes its even good to procrastinate!

[tim_noone]

"Balance" I like that.

[Imploding Turtle]

It's my cousin's funeral tomorrow and it made me think.

Sure - we aren't going to live forever. We know that.

But imagine an actual countdown, which stated how many weeks, months or years you had left. Do you think people would act with more thought, respect and consideration for eachother? And would we care less about a football result?

And another question - would you want to know how long you had left?

There are some short stories on https://www.reddit.com/r/WritingPrompts/top/" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false; about life countdowns. It's kind of a cliched prompt nowadays though but the stories are still worth a read.

[Pstotto]

What do you do if you're fifty-nil down at half-time and then you get sent off by a foreign referee, after a pillock has feigned an injury?

I think life must be random accidental happenstance and yet together with God's judgement (not karma, which I think is a political usurpation of any natural cause and effect.) Whatever one does is on one's C.V. for better or worse according to something incomprehensible.

In the light of that and the darkness, I choose English civil law and basic notions of what constitutes civilization and one's natural mystic tradition (in my case, Christmas, Bonfire Night and stuff like that,) as one interacts with whatever phenomena that happens, with kind thoughts to myself if possible regarding natural mistakes made according to incomplete knowledge and biological uncertainty, allied with the certainty of philosophical doubt, with the hope of retaining a sense of perspective in accordance with the Enlightenment tradition of rational thought (of the Northern Hemisphere via Protestantism etc.)

This does not mean that I don't have intuition or that I don't read my star sign stuff etc.

In other words if I can, I keep to who I am as I've always been since I was aware of being.

[Steve1956]

Turned into a great thread this.

[Steve1956]

Not for me.

Not knowing is part of the fun of it.

Imagine if every one knew, it would be chaos, announcements at half time at the Turf, Jack Smith - soon to die Tuesday. The fake sympathy, at work - people preparing their cv in advance in your own death so they can get to the front of the queue. facebook posts giving their own personal countdown each day. Noooooo

[Steve1956]

PutTheWheelieBinsOut - would this excuse people leaving early?

"Why are you leaving early, there's 5 minutes to go yet"
Reply: "He dies in 3 minutes, we want a pie".

[ontario claret]

Soren Kierkegaard, the great Danish philosopher, was struck down while walking down the street in Copenhagen, under mysterious circumstances, in his mid 40s. After discovering the key to life, he had no chance to enjoy it. The ultimate irony.

[ontario claret]

Become a fan of a club that plays in the 17th tier. You have nowhere to go but up.

[Spiral]

The fake sympathy, at work - people preparing their cv in advance in your own death so they can get to the front of the queue.

Sorry to pick on you but there's a properly profound thought experiment being proposed here, one where a person is encouraged to contemplate the realisation of their own mortality, the worth of their existence, and their life's choices, and what pops into your head is some other tw@t at work and his CV? Honestly speaks to your petty jealousy, mate. I'm not deliberately going out of my way to run you down but you might want to take a minute or two to reconsider your priorities. How can a person be so ****ing shallow?

[PutTheWheelieBinsOut]

Sorry to pick on you but there's a properly profound thought experiment being proposed here, one where a person is encouraged to contemplate the realisation of their own mortality, the worth of their existence, and their life's choices, and what pops into your head is some other tw@t at work and his CV? Honestly speaks to your petty jealousy, mate. I'm not deliberately going out of my way to run you down but you might want to take a minute or two to reconsider your priorities. How can a person be so ****ing shallow?

Jealousy
Why would I be jealous?
a) I'd be dead so I wouldn't care
b) It would be my job they are getting their CV's in for.... so i'm jealous of my own job?? doesn't quite make sense.

Honestly speaks to your petty jealousy, mate. I'm not deliberately going out of my way to run you down but you might want to take a minute or two to reconsider your priorities. How can a person be so ****ing shallow?

I'm glad you didn't go out of your way in your 'attempt' to put me down


One thing you need to learn is that life is to short to get angry and call people names on a message board, speaks volumes about you and your priorities. You need to lighten up seriously. Maybe a bit more lemonade in your shandy next Sunday pal then you won't be so angry.

[Spiral]

No, it's jealousy, mate. Here's an article that, in part, reads like self-help ********, but there's some decent enough, compact, pop-sociology/pop-psychology insight into jealousy and envy for a quick skim-read if you're short on time.

https://medium.com/@GusRazzetti/how-to- ... 8977359700" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;

[PutTheWheelieBinsOut]

No, it's jealousy, mate. Here's an article that, in part, reads like self-help ********, but there's some decent enough, compact, pop-sociology/pop-psychology insight into jealousy and envy for a quick skim-read if you're short on time.

https://medium.com/@GusRazzetti/how-to- ... 8977359700" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;

Physician heal thyself.

[tim_noone]

Humour is lost on some.