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by techwiz137 1145 days ago
If you know for certain, then you might do things you otherwise wouldn't.

E.g decide to have children or not, plan a will. Live life to the max. Potentially get a head start on treatment if one were ultimately available, even if super experimental and maybe even not working in the end.

Honestly, there are many reasons to know beforehand and not a lot of reasons to not know.

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So if you gonna die anyways you won’t live life to the max? Probably better off not finding out and live life to the max without the thought of it
Things like deciding when to retire. You might want to retire earlier and spend time doing things instead of waiting to retire to get maximum retirement payout.
But will you really enjoy your days with that cloud over your head, if I were to choose I wouldn’t want to know
Ignorance is bliss
Parkinson’s does not prevent any of those.