I, for one, think that it would be a terrible cruelty if each of us knew the day and hour when Death is slated to come and collect us. On one hand, some folks get something of a fore-knowledge (such as with the diagnosis of a terminal disease, et cetera). But for the most part, it seems to me that we are most fortunate to not have to know this ahead of time.
On the one hand, perhaps some would choose to use their time here more wisely and make the most of each day: freely loving and forgiving, taking actions which would prevent a sorrowful reflection on a long list of “what if”s at the end of life, what have you; on the other hand, I think others would use this knowledge as justification for indulgence in either a life of pure hedonism or downright evil.
These speculations notwithstanding, for the most part we are simply not supposed to have that knowledge, and that is good enough for me.

Death time is only implicitly known, not known explicitly, mostly. Approach of death is known implicitly in terms of cumulative pervasive fatigue experienced with time. The residual life-expectancy would be inversely proportional to the magnitude of accumulated fatigue.

However, senility may not be mistaken for this pervasive fatigue. The former is rather the signature of life’s cumulative meaning which would serve as inspiration against the cumulative fatigue.

Cumulative pervasive fatigue is experienced as morbidity.

The various factors of salvational senility and life-threatening morbidity form a group of variables that makes death a contingency and thwarts explicit knowing of the time of death. Yet death shouldn’t to be deemed as fortuitous. It may be deemed as empirically calculable.

Ah, yes. Interesting question.
The obvious answer is you can't know because the future is always unsure.
However if you want to dig a little deeper we should examine who the 'I' actually is. We can see that the body changes constantly. It is not that a baby expands like a balloon into an adult. The cells die and are replaced continuously, so the body is always in a state of dying and regenerating, but the 'I' stays constant throughout life.
We change our passport photo as our body changes, but we do not change our name on the passport. We are that person that was born on the date of birth mentioned in the passport, but the body is different.
It appears we are different to the body. So if I am not my body who am I?
Krishna says we are spirit soul and we are eternal. Eternal means we were never created and will never cease to exist.
With this knowledge it is evident that 'we' never die, only the body dies, and we survive the death of the body.
If the concept of death is disturbing, and lets be honest, it is, then we should understand our spiritual nature. This is called self-realization. Realizing who the self is.
If we realize our spiritual nature then we never die. We leave one body and take another. It's no more complicated than moving house, or going to another town or country. We stay the same, but everything around us changes. If we stay fixed believing we are the body then we will feel we are dying when the body dies, and generally that is sooner than we expect!

A2A.

Because your life would become consumed by the knowledge of your death. That is not what we are born into this world to master. You know what you have planned for today, next week, or perhaps a couple of months or years from now. But what if I told you (this is an example, not the truth), that your life was going to end in 3 days, how would that effect your ability to enjoy your life now? Many emotions would enter in to muddy the water. Doubtful you could ever experience a moment for the moment itself, and what IT had to offer. You would be forever adrift in a shadowy overlay of impending doom. Your thoughts would forever be cast ahead into another time. You would lose sight of being present in this moment, and taking life as it unfolds.

Some think about it a different way, and believe it would allow them to enjoy life’s precious moments even more. That may work for their psychology. However, the bottom line is that knowing an end point is not in alignment with our journey, which basically has none.

There is no real death, but believing in, and even knowing of the moment of that ‘fatal event’, would be like having your head stuck in a jar with a mosquito.

I view the exception as being when one has been made aware of impending death due to illness. This then, is a part of their life design, and has something to teach and allow. They can prepare for their departure with the dignity that is obviously a priority for them in that lifetime.

For one simple reason:

If you knew when you would die, then you would plan everything in your life.

When everything is planned, life is boring. And none of us want to live a boring life. We should live every single day as if it was our last.

Example, lets say you knew you would die tomorrow. Wouldn't you be more worried about why and how rather than living your last day to the fullest?

Moreover, if everyone knew when they would die then everyone would try to escape death? And you know what, when everyone tries to do that, world would be a chaotic place.

Imagine, you find out you are being murdered? Can you imagine the chain of murders it would result in?

Well, I’m really happy living everyday as if it was my last.

It seems to be possible for some. Both my father and stepfather knew when they were going to die. They both told me a couple weeks before they did die. Neither had to die when they did because medically, although both were ill, neither were ill enough to die. But they did die as they predicted.

“Why is it not possible for someone to determine when he is going to die?” It is for some. And I think it is for those who do know when they are going to die occurs because they want to die at the time they say they will. I believe from the two examples I mentioned that people can often determine to live or die when they want to.

However, all the above being said, for most of us, we don’t know when we are going to die and that’s because there often is no feature of our current existence that tells us the answer.

I guess you've already died.
OMG!!!!!
When?
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When you asked this question.

Why ? & How ?
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Because the moment that led you to the upbringing of this question..
Indicates

• How tired you are of your life style.
• Some incidents have caused you heartbreak.
• You are tired of the attitude that others show.
• You maybe tired of your job ,your career ,your business etc etc

All these or maybe some other stuff has led you to mental tiredness.
& this mental anxiousness is a step towards physical illness.

That's why you will die or have already died.

Dude!!!!
Stop dying!!!

• Change your lifestyle.
• Move forward from everything that troubles you.

Take your time and be happy in your life !!!!

Thanks

I must answer this question in 7 levels

1. cosmos level:
Compared to this vastness of space and time does not exist like what you learn for your survival on the earth and even with that measure you are beyond Tiny to even consider not even your death but also your life sorrow and happiness… so that depends on your mind, you can say I am always alive and part of this vastness or I am always dead just like this great enormous thing we call cosmos

2. earth level
still, you are one of the 7billions and no one care so unless you are someone who has a huge impact on the life of millions of millions like Gandi or Hitler you can consider yourself a dead person a “Mr nobody”

3. family and friend level
you will live in this level until the last one forgot about you

4. body organs and cell level:
in this level death and replacement occur every minute and every year and every day but one day the replacement will stop and you can no longer exist or read this message or hear just like before you become alive and consume energy to grow

5. the person I call myself level:
and we should answer this question first is this voice in my head me? does my existence bound to a name that is given to me, a place I grow up, the memories I gathered, the pain and joy I have witnessed and given meaning to? of course not, we are not this, so this level does not exist at all! it is a fake! it is a lie! I am not my memory! I am not all these things that I poccess! and certainly, I am not a voice in my head!
this level doesn't exist I created it to have some meaning for myself! to re-live a memory of my past in my head with the hope that this will make me stronger and better(for a possibly similar situation in the future) or change the outcome that already happens. the moment the voices and living in the past are gone and we live in reality (which is now at this same moment) this level will be gone for good

6. element level:

death has no meaning in this level “you will not die” your atom just changes shape from one element to another element so in this level, you don't die you exist and the time that you had borrowed in your life will change and become other element and borrowed by another form

there is a zero lvl
above cosmos there is a level everything has felt it somehow somewhere but no one can explain it! there is a divine level!

Knock, Knock...
are you there ?
are you still alive ...
I was wondering because I just noticed this

Note : it is not a good practice to ask a question and then remove yourself from want answers.

A person mentally die because of his own act it may be by the way of overthinking over a trivial issues or because of his sin (disobeying, hurting others, rude behavior) because after feeling guilty, one cannot live happily. Though, this is a natural phenomenon but let's not overthink just because of temporary infatuations and misbehave, it would leads to nowhere! and Physically, we all know better that when one will going to die. Well, this too depends on one's personality, I guess! because if you make others happy and enlighten their life, than for them you will never die. Like A.P.J. Abdul Kalam and many more known personalities!
So, be kind, be happy, treat everyone with respect and stop overthinking.

“I returned to see under the sun that the swift do not have the race, nor the mighty ones the battle, nor do the wise also have the food, nor do the understanding ones also have the riches, nor do even those having knowledge have the favor.” Why? He explained: “Because time and unforeseen occurrence befall them all.”​—Ecclesiastes 9:11.

Rather than suggesting that everything in life is determined by fate, Solomon was pointing out that humans cannot accurately predict the outcome of any endeavor “because time and unforeseen occurrence befall them all.” Often, something happens to a person simply because he is in the right place at the right time, or we might say, in the wrong place at the wrong time .So. Npbody knows when we will die,

At Ecclesiastes 9:5, 10 we read: “For the living know that they shall die, but the dead know nothing more, . . . Whatsoever thy hand is able to do, do it earnestly: for neither work, nor reason, nor wisdom, nor knowledge shall be in hell [(Dy)—in Sheol (AS)—in the grave (AV)], whither thou art hastening.” If one is in the condition like Sheol, hell, or the grave, he is not active in God’s service nor learning any of the truth. There the “rich man” class find themselves and can see the Lazarus class’ change of condition and can talk and complain. It is as when the psalmist despondently said concerning himself: “My life draweth nigh unto Sheol. I am reckoned with them that go down into the pit; I am as a man that hath no help, cast off among the dead, like the slain that lie in the grave, whom thou rememberest no more, and they are cut off from thy hand. Thou hast laid me in the lowest pit, in dark places, in the deeps. Thy wrath lieth hard upon me.”—Ps. 88:3-7, AS.

No! I have been clinically dead a couple of times and the answer is no.. Those who imagine seeing loved ones and visions are probably in the twilight zone just prior to being fully resuscitated.. and conscience.. But, when I was young I had an experience where I was outside of my body.. had the most euphoric feeling that no drug would give.. and I was one with the universe.. I know that sounds ridiculous but it’s impossible to describe my experience accurately and that’s the only way to say it briefly. I had zero questions and knew everything because I was part of everything.. when I returned to my body my first thought was how my mother in particular, would get so upset about stuff that didn’t matter at all and how ridiculous people are caring about stuff that doesn’t matter at all.. I never forgot the experience and I actually found other people who had the same experience but didn’t bother saving the search or contacting them and now I can’t find them.. Anyway.. I Hope your ARENT worried about dying because none of us will get off this world alive.. 😂

Death is the destination that all humans share; no one has ever escaped Death. Life always ends in Death. Is Death a defeat of humankind. Do humans accept Death because they have not learnt to triumph over Death. But the day is not far off, when Humans shall triumph over Death.

Once you really solve a problem like direct brain-computer interface ... when brains and computers can interact directly, that's it, that's the end of history, that's the end of biology as we know it. Nobody has a clue what will happen once you solve this. If life can break out of the organic realm into the vastness of the inorganic realm, you cannot even begin to imagine what the consequences will be, because your imagination at present is organic. So if there is a point of Singularity, by definition, we have no way of even starting to imagine what's happening beyond that. It is possible we can triumph over Death.

In conclusion, all Humans know that death is sure, yet they live as if there is no Death. Humans cheat, steal, grab what is not theirs, even kill, without fear of death, though death is certain to all. In the midst of death, humans live life fully, in the midst of life, there is death.

Even if I tell a human that he will die in 10 days time, the human will believe that he will somehow escape death. Very few succumb to the fear of death, and die many deaths in the 10 days. Most Humans are very optimistic.

Often. My mum was well aware. She was 101.She just stopped eating and drinking and slept most of the time. She was in a nursing home the last three months of her life, after being discharged from hospital following a second stroke. We had supported her in her own home for over four years following a smaller first one. She hated it. She had dementia and could not understand why she could no longer live in her house, where she had lived sonce1939. She took it out on me as her nearest and dearest. A few days before the end, she was awake and lucid. I asked her if she knew what was happening and I will always remember her reply ….” Yes. I’m dying. I have seen the other side They ( her dead mum, husband, brothers and sister) are waiting for me. It is lovely”.She hung on, comatose until my sister, who lived abroad, arrived. She spoke to her then once again lapsed into,a deep sleep,and died at ten in the morning, three minutes before we arrived to see her .

This what the bible says about death

For the living know that they will die, but the dead know nothing at all, nor do they have any more reward, because all memory of them is forgotten. 6 Also, their love and their hate and their jealousy have already perished, and they no longer have any share in what is done under the sun 10 Whatever your hand finds to do, do with all your might, for there is no work nor planning nor knowledge nor wisdom in the Grave, where you are going.

Ecclesiastes 9:5,6,10

For the wages of sin is death; Romans 6:23. So all the dead paid for their sins by dying. This sin was past on from Adam as Adam lost everlasting life and was sentenced to die and return to the dust. God did not punish Adam and Eve further,

You notice here that you would be going to the grave, no mention of your Loving God sending ANYONE to a place of torture!

All of the dead are waiting on the promise made by Jesus:

Verily, verily, I say unto you, The hour is coming, and now is, when the dead shall hear the voice of the Son of God: and they that hear shall live. John 5:25 So it is obvious that the dead will be welcomed back on earth as this would not happen in heaven.

When a person is resurrected, it is therefore the entire being, or soul, that is restored. This does not mean that the identical body made up of the same atoms is brought back. The apostle Paul explains: “God gives it [that which is ‘sown’ in death] a body just as it has pleased him, and to each of the seeds its own body. . . . If there is a physical body, there is also a spiritual one.” (1 Cor. 15:38-44) Those resurrected to heaven would receive a spiritual body, and those brought back to life on earth, a physical body. In resurrecting a human from the dead to life on earth, God can easily reconstruct, with different atoms, the body cells with the same genetic structure and arrangement. He can, in effect, imprint in that body the additional characteristics that the person had acquired during his lifetime.

I am excited about knowing all my dead family members, relatives, and friend will be back right here on the earth with the chance of never dying again!

Would you like more details on this?

BE YE READY AT ALL TIMES, BECAUSE NO MAN KNOWS THE TIME OR THE HOUR, BUT THE FATHER IN HEAVEN! .WHEN MY GRANDMOTHER WAS IN THE HOSPITAL AND THE DOCTOR CALLED ME AT 11;PM AND TOLD ME SHE WOULD NOT MAKE IT THRU THE MORNING AND WHEN I ARRIVED AT THE HOSPITAL AND MET THE DOCTOR, HE SAID THEY HAD DONE ALL THEY COULD DO AND I TOLD HIM, IT WAS NOT UP TO THEM, BUT THE MAN UPSTAIRS AND MY GRANDMOTHER LIVED TWO AND A HALF YEARS AFTER THAT. A MONTH LATER SHE VISITED ME AND I SAID, MAMA, YOU LOOK SO GOOD, AND SHE SAID YES, I AM WHOLE NOW, STOP WORRYING ABOUT ME.! 1995 I WAS IN THE HOSPITAL ABOUT TO HAVE SURGERY AND THAT NIGHT I PRAYED, AND THE LORD STEPPED OUT OF THE BEAUTIFUL CLOUDS AND STOOD ABOUT A FEET ABOVE THE GROUND AND I ASKED HIM WHAT WAS GOING ON. HE POINTED TOWARDS A BEAUTIFUL SHINING WATERFALL WITH BEAUTIFUL GREEN GRASS ON BOTH SIDES AND SAID THE WATER IS THE HEALING OF YOUR BODY, THEN HE PATTED HIS CHEST AND SAID I AM YOUR PERSONAL SAVIOUR, THEN HE POINTED TO A DWARF DRESSED IN BLACK WITH A HELMET ON HIS HEAD AND A SWORD STUCK IN THE GROUND AND SAID NO WEAPON FORMED AGAINST YOU SHALL PROSPER.. IN 2015, ME MY DAUGHTER AND MY GRANDSON WAS IN A TERRIBLE ACCIDENT WHER I TOTAL MY CAR AND NEITHER ONE OF US RECEIVED A SCRATCH AND THE INSURANCE PAYED FOR A NOTHER CAR AND I ONLY HAD TO SPEND $1000. DEDUCTIBLE. I T WASN’T MY TIME TO GO. I AM 95 AND STILL HERE IN GOOD HEALTH AND VERY INDEPENDANT. ALL OF MY IMEDIATE FAMILIES ON BOTH SIDE DIED NOT LIVING BEYOND THEIR 80’S. NONE OF US ARE GOING UNTIL GOD GET READY FOR US! I KNOW THAT I AM IN HIS HANDS AND I THANK HIM NIGHT AND DAY AND I AM READY FOR WHENEVER HE CALLS ME. I HOPE OTHERS WILL HAVE FAITH, TRUST AND PATIENCE AND BE READY FOR WHENEVER HE CALLS.

It probably depends upon our chosen lifestyle.

When I turned 60 I decided to learn to fly a hang glider. It didn’t kill me, although I did know a couple of people who fell out of the sky too soon. If you keep away from risky pursuits, you will have every chance of approximating your country’s average life expectancy.

It wouldn’t hurt to be careful what kind of company you keep. If you hang around with criminals, cartels, NRA supporters, and anti-vaxxers, you may find yourself cut off far before your time.

ADVICE T0 WOULD-BE SUICIDES:
Try, instead of a gun, or a rope, or a dagger, a
Desperate dash down the falls of Niagara.

Then, of course, sometimes it’s taken out of our hands. Hearken to this exchange:

I haven’t seen Big Al’s girlfriend for a while, Joe.
Nah. She died.
Yeah? How’d that happen?
She had the clap.
You can’t die from the clap!
You can when you give it to Big Al.

I die when there are no more poems to make life worthwhile, and no more nature left to enjoy life within.

If my heart stops
don’t call 9-1-1
I don’t need shock treatments
Or Aspirin therapies,
Don’t cut me open looking for why.
Just read me poetry
It’s just a temporary condition
When I forget what hope is
When I forget what love is
When I forget how to live…
My heart… stops….
So find me some Neruda
Find me Keats, Byron, Shelley
Awaken my dying heart:
Remind me what living is for.

If my heart stops beating, by and by
If my eyes don’t blink either closed or open
Take me to the mountains of my youth,
Take me to the world I love the most.
Let me hear birdsong unfiltered by pollution
Let me taste snow upon an unmoving lip
Let me feel the breeze passed from aspen to pine to me
Let me live in the wilds one last time
If I rise again, there is life still within me
Be it one ounce, one grain, one cell,
One molecule of life it will breed, it will grow
And I will be infused with life once more
If I still do not move, bury me here
But do not mourn my recent passing
For I died long before you brought me here.
Bury me and remember me when I lived
And know my eternal thanks for bringing me home.

I expect to die. I expect to decompose. However, I attribute a metaphysical meaning to matter, in the same way that words are not mere clusters of typographs. Hence, I also expect that the significance of the Matter that was Me will be incorporated into an intelligence, just like art exists in an artist, as well as its external expression.

“Jesus said to her, "I am the resurrection and the life. Whoever believes in me, though he die, yet shall he live,”

John‬ 11:25‬ ESV‬‬

To me, Heaven is not a Place - it is a person. More exactly, it is a relationship that consists of people in a person, just like the Trinity. In all honesty, Heaven is summarised for me in these words:

“In that day you will know that I am in my Father, and you in me, and I in you.”

John‬ 14:20‬ ESV‬‬

Thus, the Groom and the Bride are not two but one. Thus, life begets life in life. Thus, meaning is made Personal, perpetually.

For Western systems, eg Christianity, Catholicism - there are clear delineations that in a literal sense let you know you’ve died AND (importantly) where you wound up.

If you watch the show “The Good Place”, you’re in a literal sense greeted just after your moment of death. That’s a typical afterlife many people share where your self-indulgent fantasies you never imagined possible come to life.

Every religion has a different path that’s taken. MOST WILL let you know you’ve died a mortal death. MANY, as observable in the movie RIPD (2013) - allow for a path to redemption. Some enter a form of purgatory as depicted in the movie Beetlejuice (1988), and some return you to Earth in various forms, intangibly, and allow you to continue existing in a different form (as depicted in the TV Show “Ghosts” and the movie “Ghost” (1990).

It’s important to note that We, collectively, do not have a ‘one size fits all’ strategy for what happens when you die. What happens IS largely dependent on your religious affiliation, if any, and as a final resort - if you’re atheistic or don’t believe in anything - then what happens next when consensus reality believes you’re dead - can be horribly confusing from a first person, subjective experience, and you may simply not even have a clue you’ve died from other’s perspective.

What happens after that for the unaffiliated is - well, in cases like “The Man From Earth” (2014), the man just continued living for 14,000 years and never actually experienced death, instead seeing the signs that he’d died by the antagonism to his assertions which would invariably challenge religious views that would result in escalating conflict with him until ultimately - he moved and made a new name for himself elsewhere.

It’s entirely ‘up to the individual’ for the unaffiliated what happens next. Some go insane. Some wind up homeless with weird stories to tell people that doesn’t quite make logical or rational sense to most because they’ve seen things over time that most people cannot fathom. Some wind up reclusive, building their wealth, others reappear every century or so (eg Nicolas Cage) reapplying their profession, and yet others go through dramatic physical appearance and gender changes and fake their death to do the same thing (Michael Jackson).

In the case of the unaffiliated. No, you don’t always know you died. You will experience weirdness in the world that doesn’t make immediate sense. You can’t talk about it, either, because people will challenge your sanity and distance themselves from you. So. Most, I assume, learn to be observant, learn to trust in their experiences as they move away from codependence on collective facts, and most develop a way to survive that requires being much more selective with who you talk to and what you say to them knowing you’ll be judged who prefer the ‘affiliated’ route.

So no. You don’t always know. Unless you’ve attached to a religion which makes that transition easier.

I have been told I am going to live till I am 86. So, I guess that means I may not see the light of day after 6 Aug that many years from now. Exactly when and exactly how I will die, I swear I do not want to know! There are people who will be able to tell you this because they have that gift of knowledge. They may not want to tell you and seriously, why do you want to know?!?

I remembered being told a story once about a guy who was a palm reader, so he could ‘read’ people: fate, life, death. He was riding a crowded train in India and somehow began randomly reading palms of those around him. He read something very disturbing in all their palms which confused him. He got off at his stop and watched the train go by. At one point after this stop, this train had to go over a ravine on a hanging bridge of sorts. It derailed and everyone plunged to their death. That explained why he was reading imminent tragic death on all those palms he had read minutes earlier.

On a case closer to home. My grandfather knew his death was near. I must have been about 3 yrs old and my elder sister 4. We were taken care by the grandparents whilst my parents went office. Over that period of time, I remembered my Opa going through a series of ‘practice runs’ with my sister and I of what came to be eventually his death ‘scene’. He would lay on his back and instructed my sister and I to lay on either side of his outstretched arms. He then made us each put a finger straight across under his nose and said “If a person is dead, you will not feel any breathing when you put your fingers under their nose.” Then, he would close his eyes, and we would just lay there for a few minutes before he instructed us in turn, to run to announce to Oma “Oma! Oma! Our Opa is dead!” We practiced this numerous of times, at different times of the day and at different parts of the house. Finally, at dawn one morning, as everyone lay still asleep, I heard my Oma get up to go to the kitchen to start the day. When she left the room, my Opa got up and came down on the mattress where my sister and I were sleeping with my 2 little uncles (who are 4 and 6 yrs my senior only). He carried them onto the bed which they had vacated, then lay himself between my sister and I. I was sleepy but recognised what was happening. I remembered his chest heaved and went still. I just waited and then proceeded to go through the motion that has been practiced millions of times before. My sister and I took turns to run to my Oma “Oma!Oma! Opa is dead!” but it fell on deaf ears because she thought it was cry wolf. Until, I finally ran again with an additional sentence “ Opa is dead! Now there are balloons coming out of his mouth!” She threw everything down at that point and it was a frenzy for a different story from there onwards. So back to this question. It may be that my grandfather knew what it would look like, the scene, of his death. But I do not believe he knew the exact moment that much in advance, though perhaps he may have known that his days were numbered. Who is to say…

If given a choice, I would rather wish I know the exact moment I would become a millionaire and God to bless me with the ignorance of when I might drop dead.