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I'd say that if there are things you need to prepare, then do it now. If there are things you want to do so badly that you'd drop everything to do them if you suddenly knew you were going to die, then do them now.

With that in mind, I'd prefer no warning, because I wouldn't want to spend my last time alive thinking about running out of time.

Depends if you have been in hospital and shared a bay with very seriously ill patients you might not say that.

I recall a older guy who had renal failure and had to be fed through the nose, and another who started to become unstuck in time and was calling out for mother at night

If you know that what awaits you is a peaceful death, well maybe. But if the process implies a lot of suffering (physical or emotional) a quick end sounds way better.

Few of us will decide, many of us will die in pain. You could die any day so prepare now.

I'd love to go out playing music.