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gjm comments on What Would You Do If You Only Had Six Months To Live? - Less Wrong Discussion

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Comment author: gjm 21 May 2015 10:02:00AM 2 points [-]

But six months (or 70 years) minus one day later, you might wake up and notice that you are dying. That can happen very easily.

Comment author: Unknowns 22 May 2015 07:23:02AM 0 points [-]

Yes, of course, but people sometimes recover after they are dying, and even after they are dying, they don't find out they are dead the next day.