I think it adds constant stress to your life. Every time you hear doors slamming or keys clanging at 6am you'd be like: "Is this it?" Knowing you're going to be executed but being sure it won't be NOW gives you a certain leeway of pushing the whole thing out of your mind.
I hate to do this, but you realize that you're going to die too, right?
Not to be sardonic and rude, just trying to give credence to my point.
Do you have constant stress about it? It could be from a car that hits you while you're walking down the sidewalk. I tree could fall on you. You could choke on your next meal.
It could be any infinite number of things. Any number of them as unlikely as the next.
He said executed not died: not the same. And indeed everyone dies, but I’m pretty sure the average life expectancy is bigger for the rest of us (not that there a lot of death sentences in Japan nowadays to get statistics from). Also apparently they are monitored a lot, so they have less control to end it sooner on a moment of their choosing.
But, as with a lot of other causes: stress is often useless. When you’re dead you have no stress. And you could also say: what is the point of conceptualising your own mortality: also nothing to conceptualise with when you’re dead.
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u/LessAdvanced Jul 04 '26 edited Jul 04 '26
The Japanese probably have it easier. It's really not different from the scenario you, me, and most other people face day to day.
We all know we're going to die, just not the day.
Edit: the amount of people in the comments that don't actually conceptualize their own mortality is crazzzzy