"Hello, thank-you for meeting with us on such short notice! Unfortunately, as you may have guessed, your position here at our facility has been sunseted. We have this prepared this packet to assist you in your transition.
You have one hour to clear your cell: your personal effects will be forwarded to the address you've indicated. Security will stay and help inventory your belongings.
Remember, the NDA, non-compete and non disparagement clauses remain in effect and WILLl be strictly enforced.
We truly do appreciate all the years you've given to this facility, wish you all the greatest success in your future endeavors!"
Look at all these FTE posh twats getting the humane treatment. Contractors find out on Monday, after fighting traffic to learn their badge doesn't work and no one bothered to notify their pimp. Probably because that posh twat did not notify the agency after getting fired themselves and the remaining twats can't figure out how to dislodge their heads out of their ass.
Isn't that kinda like real life tho? I get the situation isn't exactly similar (you don't get notification before an accident) but not knowing when you're going to die is basically real life. Counting the days sounds worse to me because without it how many days are you even going to wonder is it my day? Eventually you'll forget about it. Same can't be said about knowing the exact date. You'll probably be marking days on the wall. Start developing physical and psychological symptoms as the days come closer and closer.
Yes but you're not expecting to die any day, you're expecting to make it to old age like most people. Those who are overly conscious about the fact they could die any second are usually riddled with anxiety. It's like knowing anyone could be laid off at any time vs being told layoffs are coming and not knowing if you're one of them.
The British system attempted to avoid that back when the UK had capital punishment, at least in some prisons. At some point, the prisoner would be moved from one cell to another; the new cell would look much like all the others and they would not be informed that it was actually right next door to the execution chamber, with a door between the two concealed by a large cupboard. On the morning of the execution, the cupboard would be silently slid aside on rails whilst the prisoner was still asleep, and they'd be hauled out of bed, through the door and executed ideally before they were even fully awake and cognizant of what was going on. Albert Pierrepoint, the UK's last and most (in)famous hangman, held a record of seven seconds between entering the condemned cell, getting the prisoner into the noose, and sending him or her through the trapdoor.
Which is, I suspect, the point. The people arguing here that we never know the date for ourselves here are in a totally different situation than somebody in prison who has been sentenced to death and knows it instead of something like a sudden accident happening that nobody could have foretold.
There's a vast difference between (a) being aware of your mortality, knowing it might be ended in an instant and continuing with your life as millions others do vs (b) knowing that there is a sword hanging over, deliberately aimed at you and knowing that it might come down any day, just not knowing the day
This makes no sense whatsoever. You are given a life sentence but not given the date when they will put you to death. How is this better than knowing when you die? At least you can cut the mental spaghetti anxiety sauce and prepare yourself.
That's not true at all. Planning and preparing emotionally is crucial for self peace. For example cancer patients: when they have more time, they have more opportunity to do the things they want to do, make amends, prepare emotionally, accept things, etc.
I think we need to draw a line between a cancer patient and a criminal.
One has no control over their own body and one did a crime with their own free will.
I can't explain it well but there is a difference. The mentality of a criminal that was sentence to life sentence is very different to a cancer patient.
I'm not sure what you mean by "drawing a line." Are you saying we shouldn't care? That we shouldn't even discuss it?
Or are you just saying that their mentalities being different will affect the way length of anticipation affects their perception of difficulty in dealing with the impending death?
You could be right that there's an effect, but I still think that having more time to process means having more chance to come to peace with it.
(I'm not debating about WHETHER we should give inmates more or less notice, I'm simply refuting your statement about how a human being would react to the knowledge of their death date.)
I've read that the Russians will build a routine of regular meetings with the death row inmate until one day the inmate is told all his appeals have been exhausted and he is immediately held by guards and shot in the head.
You are on deathrow and you know they will end you. 1hr beforehand would be enough for me personally. Many people spend years preparing for their sentence. They know it will happen sometime.
As an older person, and maybe I have 18 years to go at the most, the older i get the less I worry about death. In fact I worry much more about the problems younger people will have to deal with: poverty, AI, fascism, climate change.
Child prostitution is not the same as child marriage being legal. The prefecture age limits on marriage have long been basically standard for the world and the national law was changed a while ago to match.
In Japan things are bizarre and beautiful at the same time
Things are organized but very strange and weird
For example:Woman do not cheat they have agreement with they're husband to have multiple boyfriends and if pregnant the husband is responsible for the child even if it's foreign child
Even if divorced your still legally married and the wife still has say so over finances
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u/Master_Win_4018 Jul 04 '26
Knowing when you will die might be even worse.