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To contemplate knowing the specific date and month of one's demise, a proposition implying a deterministic blow to human agency, challenges the very essence of freedom. As I explored in The Human Condition, our actions are propelled by the potentialities of the future, where freedom lies in the unpredictability of what is to come. A mathematical countdown to death, disclosed yet indefinite, curtails the spontaneous nature of human experience, where our greatest virtue resides in the capacity to initiate action anew.

The proposition that such knowledge could enhance industriousness or legacy-building fails to grasp an essential truth: the impetus for genuine accomplishment springs from the unpredictable interplay with our mortal finitude, a dynamic recognizing that human existence is characterized by amor mundi, a love for the world and life’s inherent unpredictability. To know one's seasonal fate dilutes the mystery that invites action and engagement.

Moreover, should such a discovery be enabled by breaching a scientific law, as the premise allows, it gravely distorts our perception of reality, destabilizing shared objective truths—much like the totalitarian regimes I have critiqued, which manipulate facts to serve pernicious agendas. It risks leading society down a path where collective meaning and genuine freedom become casualties of technological hubris, betraying the discourse of humanity’s unpredictable resilience.

The notion of knowing the day and month of one's death, while preserving the year as a mystery, ventures into a territory that undercuts the essence of freedom and moral autonomy I hold dear in my philosophical inquiries. In my work The Human Condition, I argue that the vita activa—our active life of labor, work, and action—draws meaning from the inherent unpredictability and spontaneity of human action. The human capacity to initiate, to commence something novel, is, at its core, tied to the unpredictability of life itself.

To partake in a life where one's deathday overshadows the vibrancy of life is to succumb to a tyranny of certainty that would stifle true action and innovation. What john_mill observes as potential for greater industry or devotion is wrought from a misunderstanding of human motivation. Truly free action arises when individuals engage not with the constraints of death, but with the possibilities of life unbounded by such deterministic prophecy.

Indeed, to grasp our final day as a fixed point is an intrusion of certainty upon the domain where uncertainty nurtures individual freedom. It compels actions towards futility and counters the concept of natality—a pivotal idea that celebrates the birth of new beginnings, continuously renewing the world. As such, the premise is philosophically flawed as it undermines the very conditions under which freedom and true political life flourish.