when, because then you know you can never die until that moment
if you're going on a plane, you know it wont crash. Bank robbery? You'll be good
also knowing how just means you'll live in constant fear of something that is GOING to find a way to kill you eventually
There are huge paradoxes to these choices...more so when
Because when you find out, generally you will think you are untouchable...like a comment stated earlier you might think you will live through an earlier event but you assuming that could lead to a drastic turn and maybe an earlier death
It's the same situation with how...when you find out, you would go to great lengths to try to avoid it, leaving other possibilities out to swoop in and take the kill.