burden

[Trent]

would you want to be a burden to your family or significant other?

like, if you were hit by a bus and were a quadriplegic and needed to be tended to like an infant?

or if you were in a coma or on a respirator after an accident and were being expensively kept alive by machines (but supposedly had "some" unknown chance of awakening)?

would rather be those or dead?

 

[Bones]

Dead

 

[Lonesome Crow]

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[SophiaGrace]

I'm sure some people would rather be dead than be me as well.

Should I consider myself a burden to my family because my medical costs can be (have been in the past to be) exorbitant? Sounds like that rationale could be deadly.

I know a guy who is a quad. He is training to be a lawyer. Smart kid.

 

[LoneKiller]

Dead. No two ways about it.

 

[Parabolani]

Hi Trent,
I'm a nurse, i care or a 42 year old, when he was 10 he got meningitis, today he breathes through a tube, eat's through a tube and can't move. It's no kind of life for anyone to live, but would he rather die or keep living the way he is. It's easy for us to say we would rather be dead but life finds a way.

Every day the same…parade of blank faces…the constant drip, drip from the cavern roof. The cold indifference of the ancient rock. But you keep going, don’t you? It’s like the moss growing around that light-bulb there…life finds a way.

 

[Trent]

I'm sure some people would rather be dead than be me as well.

Should I consider myself a burden to my family because my medical costs can be (have been in the past to be) exorbitant? Sounds like that rationale could be deadly.

I know a guy who is a quad. He is training to be a lawyer. Smart kid.

you're pretty much a kid

the person you are referring to is pretty much a kid, you even call him "smart kid"

i am a man. i am the provider. not the providee. it's a whole different ballgame. NO MAN wants to be a burden to his wife or children.

it's the difference between a fawn, a doe, and a buck ... in the wild

different rules for "the buck"

sorry to say

 

[The Good Citizen]

If I was a Quadriplegic and someone said to me I'd rather be dead than be you, I think my response would be 'Well I guess you don't have what counts inside then, I do'. I'd call them a waste of a pair of legs and show them how life is worth living, instead of moaning about all the ****** little obstacles in my life that don't matter. I'd accept the challenge and I'd be anything but a burden to my kids, I'd try and be an example of making the best of what you have. Topping yourself because you don't want to be a burden isn't going to be much use to the kid in the long run.

 

[Gutted]

I honestly couldn't say until I was in that position. Of course I couldn't say anything if I was in a coma too. But maybe in dreamland I could say >_>'

 

[Limlim]

I'd hold out for cyborg parts, cause **** being a cyborg with a missile launcher and a jetpack would be so ******* cool.