wrist cutter Posted February 20, 2003 Share Posted February 20, 2003 One day, you're walking around and everything is perfect. You have a doctor's appointment that day, and it turns out you have a disease. The disease is very unknown. However, they realize that if they put you in a wheelchair now, it will reduce the chances of the disease getting worse. Keep in mind you couldn't even tell you had a disease. So they want you to be in a wheelchair for three years, basically eliminating the chances of the disease ever getting worse. The alternative is to just not do anything - however, the last ten years of your life may be painful, but that's only if the disease progresses which may or may not happen. So what would you do - spend three years now in a wheelchair and be safe later on, or risk it for happiness now? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Domon Posted February 20, 2003 Share Posted February 20, 2003 I'd rather waste three years. I mean yeah, you may have good times now but still you may want to do things ten years from now. Thats my opinion. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Defcon5 Posted February 20, 2003 Share Posted February 20, 2003 Take the Wheelchair, it's better than taking a gamble on your life. Plus you'll get the girls all over you, "Awwwww what happened? You poor baby" Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Semjaza Posted February 20, 2003 Share Posted February 20, 2003 I'd take the wheel chair too. I see nothing wrong with that. I wouldn't want to be crippled, but that isn't the case with this. I'd try make some fun out of a rather crappy situation... Wheelchair races, getting to park [i]in front of the store[/i]. Not a bad compromise. The only thing that would suck is that my legs would probably atrophy. Three years would be a really long time to deal with being in basically one spot. It also kind of depends on when the problems will set in later on in my life. If I'll be 70 when it happens, what do I care. Might as well just skip the chair. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lady Macaiodh Posted February 20, 2003 Share Posted February 20, 2003 [color=darkblue]Normally I'd say screw the wheelchair, but things have happened in my life lately that I want to be around for. I think I'm getting less selfish. I'd think about my loved ones.[/color] Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PiroMunkie Posted February 20, 2003 Share Posted February 20, 2003 [color=indigo][size=1]Do not underestimate how amusing a wheelchair can be. Especially the manual ones where you actually have to use your arms to move around. Not only are wheelchairs fun, but after three years you would probably have some well-toned arms. Good workout. The pros outweigh the cons, here. Wheelchair. Most definitely.[/color][/size] Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kent Posted February 20, 2003 Share Posted February 20, 2003 Dude, wheelchair all the way. Shoot, of course there are draw backs to it, but the fact is, your asking whether I want 3 years of pain for atleast twice as many years of happiness, or just a few years of happiness with only death following. I guess I hope to live a full life and not a short foolish one. But thats just how I see it, not nessacerily the best way to go for everyone. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
wrist cutter Posted February 20, 2003 Author Share Posted February 20, 2003 [QUOTE][i]Originally posted by gokents [/i] [B]or just a few years of happiness with only death following. [/B][/QUOTE] Well, keep in mind it's not 100% the disease will ever affect you in any way. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
vegeta rocker Posted February 20, 2003 Share Posted February 20, 2003 I would go with the wheel chair not to preserve life but to chase little old ladies in theirs. I would be racing queen. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mitch Posted February 20, 2003 Share Posted February 20, 2003 [color=red] I would risk happiness now. I can't stand sitting around pointlessly firstly, and secondly, death comes eventually: so what does it matter in the wheelchair? So what brought this on, wrist cutter? [Wonders vaguely if something like it happend to him...]...but yeah, there's a whole world out there. I'm not going to waste three years in reclusiveness and boredom waiting for life and watching it all fly around on me. I'm just not like that period. Life is now, and I want it like that.[/color] Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Matt Posted February 20, 2003 Share Posted February 20, 2003 [color=red][b]I would take the wheelchair. 3 years without being able to use my legs inorder to live the rest of my life being able to is better than the alternative.[/b][/color] Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Shy Posted February 20, 2003 Share Posted February 20, 2003 [size=1]I'm a very cautious person, so I would also go with the wheelchair. There a lot of fun things you can do without using your legs, so I'm sure that I could work around the handicap over time. Three years isn't [i]that bad[/i]. -Shy[/size] Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TheShinje Posted February 20, 2003 Share Posted February 20, 2003 I would go with the Wheelchair. heck, you can have a lot of fun on those things, 3 years aint long at all. If it were permanent, I'd say screw it, Im skydiving, swimming with sharks, bungee jumping, living my last 3 years to the extreme :D Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BabyGirl Posted February 20, 2003 Share Posted February 20, 2003 [color=deeppink]wheh. This is a difficult question. Watching my brother grow up for 12 years in a wheelchair makes me more than aware of its pros and cons. First of all, you get stared at wherever you go, so if you don't like people looking at you then it's a bad thing. Secondly, TONS of places are super hard to get a wheelchair in and out of, not to mention get [i]around[/i] in. Some stores make it near impossible to manuver one up and down aisles without blocking the whole thing or getting stuck. And when THAT happens, people give you mean looks and mutter to themselves... Other than the fact that it could prevent the disease, I can't see any pros to using a wheelchair. I've seen enough of them in my day. But in this case...I'd probably think of my loved ones and take the wheelchair, putting myself aside and bearing with it for three years.[/color] Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Justin Posted February 20, 2003 Share Posted February 20, 2003 I'd probably take the three years in the wheel chair. I mean, when you look at it as you know you will later on down the line, three years is nothing. -Justin Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
conpiracymonki Posted February 20, 2003 Share Posted February 20, 2003 [b][size=1] I'd probably take the 3 years in the wheelchair, too. Although I doubt I'll be able to keep myself in it all the time. I seriously cramp easy, and if my legs started to hurt I'd run around for a while before getting back in. So yeah. I'd still move around a bit.[/b] *thinks* Why do you ask?[/size] Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
wrist cutter Posted February 20, 2003 Author Share Posted February 20, 2003 I'm so surprised so many pick the wheelchair. I mean, what if after three years, you finally step out of the wheelchair to experience freedom again, only to be hit by a car a few minutes later? Kind of a waste then. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sui Generis Posted February 20, 2003 Share Posted February 20, 2003 Its a risk you'd have to take. What happens if you decide not to get them and so you don't take that extra time to get the wheel chair done, and then you go outside. Getting in your car you start to drive home. Suddenly a drunken 18 rig driver swirves into your lane heading straight for you. Both of your cars are moving to fast for you to react and the rig hits you killing you instanly and mutilating your car. Then in that case the wheel chair would've saved your life. I know its a wild example, but you get the point. Personally I would TRY to stay in the wheel chair, but I love baseball so much I wouldn't be able to do it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GhostofSalvtore Posted February 20, 2003 Share Posted February 20, 2003 I would as well, just because I know that the wheel chair is only temporary. But if the wheel chair wasn't a clear 100% answer for helping then I wouldn't do it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Deedlit Posted February 20, 2003 Share Posted February 20, 2003 [color=009966]Go for the wheelchair. It's better to lose 3 years rather than 10 while going through constant pain. Hope you'll be OK in the long-run, WC.[/color] Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
wrist cutter Posted February 21, 2003 Author Share Posted February 21, 2003 [QUOTE][i]Originally posted by Deedlit [/i] [B]Hope you'll be OK in the long-run, WC.[/B][/QUOTE] While that was very thoughtful, this is just a hypothetical situation. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sara Posted February 21, 2003 Share Posted February 21, 2003 [size=1]I obviously don't know what I would do if actually faced with the choice...probably take the wheelchair and then not use it half the time, heh. ..... But, yeah. No wheelchair. I'd like to live the same way as I always have...some of my favorite things would be flat-out impossible to do in a wheelchair. I'd rather live my life normally for as long as possible, come what may.[/size] Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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