I have a difficult time relating to the premise of your post, which is that you can predict the future, and because I'm a lot older than you. With life experience comes some perspective on the value of life right now, or at least it has for me, and parenting a now late teen has confirmed that for me. So has losing my spouse to cancer when he was 46, in the 4 months he lived after his terminal diagnosis, I would never say that having a short time to live doesn't matter. If how you live right now matters when you know *for sure* you are going to die within months, I really can't get how any situation requires you to just suffer now. I don't believe in suffering, I believe in doing. Right now.

Have you studied mindfulness at all? Pretty much now is all that matters. Enjoying my life right now, living how I can right now, that's all I can or want to do. I might fall down my stairs and break my neck in the next five minutes, or I might live to be over 100 in a world that is nothing like we can imagine it now. I do share some henny-penny type reactions to the climate change and political world we currently live in, but I think what's going to happen is not terribly well known however many articles on the internet warn us.