Let's say if you found out you had some fatal disease, would you go through radiation, chemotherapy and the like, or would you except that it is your time to go and deny treatment. Many people are afraid to die and would do anything to extend their lives. What about you all?
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Who would fardels bear,
To grunt and sweat under a weary life,
But that the dread of something after death,
The undiscover'd country from whose bourn
No traveller returns, puzzles the will
And makes us rather bear those ills we have
Than fly to others that we know not of?
Thus conscience does make cowards of us all.
But more seriously: if there was a cure (even a painful one) I'd go through with it, if not I'd rather die on something like my own terms than have to live constantly in fear that I would miss a treatment and die.
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I'd let go of everything and live in fear, like a scientist, not knowing what is to come. Of course as a longevity scientist I would take massive doses of resveratrol which seems to tell the body to turn the negative entropy, life on steroids and take back a good chunk of the sands of time, not all or you would be ageless, but enough to make it a serious choice.
As for other means, I would imagine my nightmares to keep me alive, and yeah I would take just about every treatment available to stay alive. The idea of living without a body, might somehow in some twisted and perverted way be true, but it is not my personal style, I'm a realist here.
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I'd go through the treatment. If treatment was available, that means it's an option, so how could I just say it's my time to go, and basically give up?
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I thought we were talking about radiation and chemotherapy, I mean, that is what you originally said. Carved up like some holiday ham? Now, you didn't mention that. And yeah, just to live a few more years, yeah, I would.
I'm not afraid of leaving this body. I just appreciate living.
I think, I have to check all my debts, fix it and after that to go. And if i have any debts(financial or moral), I'd rather turn my feet to alternative medicine. But if I don't have debts, I will prefer to leave my body.
Why the question of it all. Debts? Is that a means to an end?
And yes, the therapy would mean all types. If it would give you 6 months, a year? What would be your quality of life then. What would that do to your family. Are you thinking of them or you and why?
Would you leave them being THEIR care taker? Would you take them on?
OR would you let them go.
After you answer that...put yourself in those shoes.
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Okay, during the therapy, which could last 6 months to a year, of course quality of life would be hard, very hard. But I'd find comfort in the thought, that there would be a possiblity that I could get better, rather than just giving up and thinking, "Oh, well I'm gonna die anyways."
What it would do to my family? Well, I don't have a family of my own, so the only thing that would affect anyone, would be my parents, and some relatives. And if I'm quite old when I'm affected with whatever sickness this may be, I obviously wouldn't have the older relatives around anymore, I'd be alone. So, I'd be thinking of myself, I guess you could say.
I don't want a family in the future, so it really wouldn't be an issue for me. But if my brother was still around, or maybe if he had children, I'd appreciate it if they helped me out spiritually, but otherwise, I wouldn't want to put them through any trouble, and continue a neutral relationship.
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Re: Living or letting go.
I only die for my cause, so long as my cause lives I live on even in death. I would do anything,anything, to stay alive to fight for my cause, I will kill for my nation, I will live for my world, I will die by my word through the sword, for a universe of meaning is all that I see.
Okay, lets say your quality of life would go down dramatically. Would you still do it? If it gained you only one year or two, would you? Would you put your family though it? Why do self injury to yourself for a year or two?
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It'd be a worse self injury if you didn't do anything about the illness.
Even if my life was shit, a life if a terrible thing to waste. Yeah, I'd do it, even if it was only for a year or two. You can experience a lot in that period of time.
I beleave in my power to selfhiling. I have a lot experiences of that. I beleave i'll have enough will to struggle for my health. And I beleave to alternative medicine. It is really helpfull and works magically.
It is not just about extending your life, but about the quality of life. If my life's quality would be sagnificantly infringed by therapy marely to extend my life to a year or so more, then I would chose to die as it comes.
In a state which would make me dependant on such things is not something I would personaly want to through.
If there is a cure, I would consider it of course, but again depending on the state it will leave me in.
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No I wouldn't then. I would let go if that was the case, but you would have a lot of things to think about and to solve in your life. Things that you idn't finish and dreams you never lived.
hm... I think we calculate between pleasure and pain. How much pain can I take to have this much pleasure later? Pain of treatment for pleasure of life.
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