If you had a choice to save someones life but it could mean that you will die, would you do it?
Depending on the circumstances, obviously. Say it was a loved one-someone you didn't think you could live without. Would it be selfish of you to say-here, take my kidney...and then you end up dieing of an infection? Or even more selfish to say, no, I'd rather not risk my life, I think I can deal without you. What if that person had only a 50% chance of living with the kidney you were to give them and you had a 50% chance of dieing on the operating table due to complications? What if you both died? Both lived? One died while the other lived?
What ever happened to survival of the fittest? If you have a broken kidney, then maybe it's best you take your broken body and let it rest in peace. But with technology we have now, how can one possibly say that without sounding like a heartless bitch? If it was me, what would I do?
Life is something everyone takes for granted. We work in order to live and we crap all over the earth as if it was put here for humans and humans alone. It was here a long time before we came here, and it will be here a long time after-unless of course the dieing sun decides to implode in a super nova and incinerates us all. That would be a way to go, huh?
There are a couple things I would really like to do in life while I'm still young. Go on a cruise by myself.
Go to Europe.
Take a random road trip across the US.
Move to the country.
Ah, so romantic, everything I am not. So why do I want to do it? I don't know, it really sounds like a lot of fun.
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I don't think it's selfish to not give up a kidney or to lose your own life to save a loved one's, I do think it's a perseption of humanity made and then over romaticized to die young or in a blaze of glory. More so to do so for a loved one. I actually think it is more selfish to go through with the death for the loved one. Your mind set must be how you will look to others in either situation. but...I would indeed. If I ever got the chance to give my life for someone else, I would do it. As long as they create a shrine in my honor and find a cure for AIDS!
Thanks for making me think deeper this morning its hard before I finish my coffee. Good blog! So lets go on a road trip.
Fat Gay I need a kidney. Can I have yours? I will erect a shrine in your name out of toothpicks and I will start my research on the AIDS thingy. :)
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