Would you do it?

Time and time again we see/here about this sort of situation in movies and novels. A person is badly wounded, whether they're body is covered in burns, or every bone in their body is shattered, or whether they are looking at their own entrails, they beg you for death.

The person is someone who you love, whether it be a friend, family member, or significant other, they beg you for death but you dont want to do it.

My question is this, would you kill them? If they were suffering from pain beyond comprehension and begging you for death, would you kill them?

I probably would but then again, I have never been in that sort of situation.






EDIT: By the way if anyone has any better suggestions for a thread title, then please say so.

In alot of those situations, where they are in great pain, if it is really that bad they would probably be going into shock and stuff so it wouldn't really matter

I wasn't sure if i wasn't sure or whether i was sure, so i just checked all three boxes.

People need to start making the polls that limit you to one UN VUT ONE! option...

TNine wrote:People need to start making the polls that limit you to one UN VUT ONE! option...

That may pose a problem then.

Requesting thread deletion so I can fix it.

I'll just enable vote canceling in this.

Even better!! Now people will actually have to TYPE OUT an opinion.

if they had no chance to live then I would do it

Depends entirely on the situation, so I chose unsure.

KrAzY wrote:if they had no chance to live then I would do it

What I was about to say.

Depends upon whether death was inevitable or not.

I don't think I know a single person that would realistically ask for death. Look at Roadside Picnic - a human being will always take that next breath of air so long as it is available to them.

Cheese wrote:I don't think I know a single person that would realistically ask for death. Look at Roadside Picnic - a human being will always take that next breath of air so long as it is available to them.

If that was true there wouldn't be such a thing as suicide. Suicide is all to real so this is not true.

Death no more wrote:

Cheese wrote:I don't think I know a single person that would realistically ask for death. Look at Roadside Picnic - a human being will always take that next breath of air so long as it is available to them.

If that was true there wouldn't be such a thing as suicide. Suicide is all to real so this is not true.

I know somebody would say that. Ignoring the fact that I don't know anyone who would try suicide, one: it's a damn metaphor. two: it's talking about people who are already dying.

If someone tries to hang themselves or drown themselves and you pull them out, what's the first thing you hear? I wager it's *GAAAAAAAASP*.

Cheese wrote:

Death no more wrote:

Cheese wrote:I don't think I know a single person that would realistically ask for death. Look at Roadside Picnic - a human being will always take that next breath of air so long as it is available to them.

If that was true there wouldn't be such a thing as suicide. Suicide is all to real so this is not true.

I know somebody would say that. Ignoring the fact that I don't know anyone who would try suicide, one: it's a damn metaphor. two: it's talking about people who are already dying.

If someone tries to hang themselves or drown themselves and you pull them out, what's the first thing you hear? I wager it's *GAAAAAAAASP*.

That's involuntary.

Also, people who have terminal and painful sicknesses often ask their doctors to "pull the plug".

This brings me back to the Terry Shiavo case does anyone remember that

TNine wrote:

Cheese wrote:

Death no more wrote:

Cheese wrote:I don't think I know a single person that would realistically ask for death. Look at Roadside Picnic - a human being will always take that next breath of air so long as it is available to them.

If that was true there wouldn't be such a thing as suicide. Suicide is all to real so this is not true.

I know somebody would say that. Ignoring the fact that I don't know anyone who would try suicide, one: it's a damn metaphor. two: it's talking about people who are already dying.

If someone tries to hang themselves or drown themselves and you pull them out, what's the first thing you hear? I wager it's *GAAAAAAAASP*.

That's involuntary.

Also, people who have terminal and painful sicknesses often ask their doctors to "pull the plug".

You people have ruined Strugatsky for everyone.

The point is that it's involantary. No human 'body' wants to die. It's about the whole link between mind and body and ruination. But I'm sure you won't care.

Well, if death was inevitable, and the pain was intense, I probably would try to kill them in the quietest, most painless way possible.

I doubt a syringe full of tubocurarine would be available, so it would have to be something like a morphine overdose administered in stages so as not to cause the body to reject it. I imagine I could improvise a car airbag as a nitrogen narcosis gas chamber, but that would be WAY too complicated.

Shooting is a last option.

Oh god...

Well, if its someone you love, I can hardly even bring myself to answer this. I picked unsure, I haven't been in the situation and don't know if I could bring myself to do so.

yes i would

Yes I would do it

no

the pain makes us stronger

BB....

wait... what is this poll about?

I dont know.

BBJynne wrote:no

the pain makes us stronger

Do you mean the pain felt after ravaging sexual encounters?