My gut reaction was “no,” but now that I think about it some…I’m not so sure.
I always have lived a very “future oriented” life to a degree where it’s almost a problem. I’m very quick to do any number of unpleasant things in the present if I believe it will really benefit me down the road.
Finding out that I was going to die young would therefore be hard for me to accept, but it would allow me to know that maybe I don’t need to concern myself quite so much with the future; maybe I should start focusing on the present a bit more.
But if I found out I was going to live a long time, I could continue working towards my goals, knowing that I still have plenty of time left. And I could stop being quite so careful all the time.
Of course, this is assuming I would have a very logical reaction, when in fact I would probably react much more emotionally and wouldn’t take the news all that well. So perhaps my gut feeling was right in the first place.