Jan
17th
2018
Wholesome Rage: Paralysis or Death? · 4:49am Jan 17th, 2018
This week's article actually has a podcast component. If you've never heard me speak before, well, now's your chance! This week I don't cover what I think the meaning of life is, but I do cover what I think it means to choose to live.
Here's a question I ask you: Would you rather be paralyzed completely from the neck down, or dead? Why? No right answers, just your choice of wrong one.
Why did you choose the way you did? And why do other people choose the answers they do? I break that down here for you this week.
Check it out here
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Having spent most of 2017 very nearly paralyzed and in more pain than I can even describe, I can say from personal experience that I would rather be dead. Few things are more boring than staring up at the ceiling for days, weeks, months on end with little hope of going anywhere without significant assistance, and it's made worse when the only time you are coherent is when the pain medications kick in and give a brief respite from what is otherwise living hell.
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I admit I would instantly go 'Paralyzed' because of two things.
My first thought was 'There's a very good chance that I wait 15-20 years and science can fix me and then I have the rest of my life as quality life'
My second thought was 'I CAN READ SO MANY BOOKS'
Like. I like the second thought, because it was uplifting. It went 'Well, I can still read' and as I sit here pondering it I realize 'And I can't run conventions, or go to conventions, or effectively play video games, or do my existing job, or all these other things that are time consuming and kind of stressful' and in a way it would be relaxing because with all those avenues closed off, the ability to just study and learn and so on would be one of the few things available and therefore I could luxuriate in it completely free of guilt that I was doing that to the detriment of other more 'productive' things because, hey, I literally can not do those things.
Huh.