What would happen if we could choose our time to die?

How would you change?
Would we still put off what could be done now?
Would we invest in ourselves differently?
How different would we treat our surroundings?
Would we still be conformist?
How would it affect our communities and governments?

How would it feel to live free from “mother nature” and therefore societies expectations?  Being able to live your life aging, but not dying until you are ready.  Being able to spend as much time as you want creating yourself, growing into the person you aspire to be.  If we choose our own time-lines & grow at our own speed, would we become more self-aware?  More individualistic?  Living life free of suggestions, generalizations & traditional thinking.  Deciphering for ourselves when the time is right for certain life changes.  And knowing anything you do is knowledge gained and never a wasted moment.

“Because I have loved life, I shall have no sorrow to die” -Amelia Burr

In a life well lived you will lose your fear of death. I am an atheist and the only time I have prayed in years is when I was last on an airplane.  30,000 ft in the air, seat-belted into a pressurized tube, all circumstances out of my control; I found myself asking for protection.  If it were unnecessary for humanity to fear death would there be religion?  We would, in turn, have to trust ourselves and what we create in our lives to give us the desire for a future.

Alas, we do not possess this trait.  I’ll continue to dream science-fiction to non-fiction and keep my eye on stem-cell research (: All I can do right now is trust in my decisions, continue to be open minded, push myself to grow and encourage others around me.