@kritiper The dead person is dead and has no knowledge of his or her present condition. Life is about being optimistic of the future and not about the probability that death will visit anytime soon.
Apparently the logic of that hasn’t sunk in to some as I made that point in the past but it seemed to have gone over heads. Along with that logic is even if a person will not be able to remember (they will, but for the sake of this question we will roll with they won’t be able), they were celebrating something they did not get to fully use, much less if they did not make it out of January before dancing with the Grim Reaper. So, in actuality one would be celebrating something they did not really receiver, unless they are celebrating just reaching it, even if they did not complete it.
@canidmajor I don’t even want to know your take on birthday parties!
The annual mortality marker? Of course you wouldn’t, people would rather be mired in play and fun and avoid the real like an ant hill full of fire ants.
@elbanditoroso Suppose they died on December 30 2016. They would be 365/366 fulfilled. They would have gotten their money’s worth.
Suppose they died (and someone did somewhere) at 6:30 am this morning, or they will die next week or Valentine’s Day, they got their money’s worth? They celebrated as if they would be here.
@JLeslie Why would celebrating ever be for naught? What’s the alternative? Doing nothing special and dying the next day? Why would celebrating ever be for naught? What’s the alternative? Doing nothing special and dying the next day?
If you are going to die the next day, you are going to die the next day no matter what you did. Would it not be a shame to have wasted that day (had you known it) partying when there was something more pertinent you could have done? As for an alternative, the day is far spent and I don’t have time to go into it, but there are always better options.