Re: So hard to live
chris2a wrote:How hard would you fight to stay alive in the event of severe injury or disease?
It really depends.
If I lost both my legs in a severe accident, I would get artificial limbs and learn to get around again. It would be devastating but not the end of the world. I know I could handle this.
If I was in an accident where I was unable to move, feed myself, relieve myself or do anything and was dependant on machines to continue to breathe I would prefer to be taken off life support and let go.
If I contracted cancer or some other painful debilitating disease I would do all the chemo and radiation I could in the hopes of beating it. If I was completely riddled with cancer or some similarly death-dealing disease and in horrific pain, I would end it. I joked a good while back about the way I want to die. I would like to jump out of an airplane without the parachute. People thought I was being cute. I wasn't. If I found myself in a situation where I was physically dying and in so much pain as to have lost all vestiges of my quality of life, I would commit suicide rather than drag it out to the unbearable end. Don't get me wrong, I take suicide very seriously. I don't say that lightly. I just know that it would be an option I could think about.
The only thing worthwhile in keeping me here are my family and friends, the ones I love. It is for them that my heart would break. The pain and suffering and grief that would be left behind. Myself, I don't fear my death. Naturally I would like it to be painless or fast because I really don't do well with pain.
