Would you want to live if you were brain damaged?

No, I definetally would NOT want to live this way. I feel that one of the worst ways to live is to live and not be able to communicate! And while I am brain damaged, if I can't communicate, that i am letting everyone know right now that I am probably wishing I could say "LET ME GO!" And people want to argue that you can't "Play God" by pulling the plug and essentially killing those people, but if you ask me, you can't "Play God" by preventing those people from dying naturally like they should have a long time ago!

I wouldnt want to live that way either.. But the decision still rest on your family... If they want you to live, then you must.. Who knows, maybe there is still hope on your recovery..

I wouldnt,but there is a question to ask yourself here,if you have been severely brain damaged then you wont have much idea of how life is supposed to be anyway,and you may well not know where you are or who you are .so the decision to `pull the plug1` is totally out of yuor hands,so the decision is passed onto your nearest and dearest,and though they may not want you to suffer the decision for them is a crucifying one to make,it is literally asking the nursing proffession to let you die..and they have to live with the decision that they make..maybe they can and maybe they cant.

no, i would not want to live that way & would hate to see anyone have to.

As much as possible no.I don't want to live this way.I will pray to God that if i am going to die, He won't let me suffer for a long time like in this situation.I don't want my family to suffer too.I know they would get hurt watching me on that condition for a long time.I better rest immediately so they could also rest and go on with their lives without me.

life is an interesting thing. its not like - if u break it, you can get another one. its just one and thats it. if i was brain damaged i would try to live my life the best i could i would live my life until the day god decides that my life has to end.

no no no, pull the plug please! i would go out of my mind if i was unable to care for myself! not only would i consider it torture, but keeping me alive would be putting my family in huge amounts of debt! how could i "live" with myself knowing that my useless body was going to cause financial hard times to my family, much less the emotional and mental hard times that just having to care for me would cause! pull the plug...damn i need to make sure thats put in writing!

I don't think I would want to live like that. Granted, I know that we can't know for sure that there isn't some little bit of consciousness deep inside but, because of that, we also can't know that the little bit of consciousness is spending all of that time screaming, crying, begging and pleading, without being heard, the words..."Please put me out of my misery". So, I think I wouldn't want to live if I wasn't really living and only being kept alive by tubes and respirators. I wouldn't want to be a burden on my family and friends. I wouldn't even want them to have to think about what it must be like for me. That kind of pain isn't good for anyone. So, I think I would want them to let me go.

If there is absolutely no hope for recovery, I would not want to remain a vegetable, and my husband knows this. There's really no reason for it. Now if I were in a coma and had a chance of coming out of it eventually, and have a normal life, then by all means, leave me on life support.

Yup, I've left instructions for my hubby to let me die. I wouldn't want to live on as a vegetable, no feelings whatsoever, and a burden to my loved ones financially and emotionally. I want them to carry on their lives - my body lying there on the sickbed, would only get them thinking and hoping for a miracle that might never happen!

not myself. but, im afraid if its someone i love i couldnt stop hoping for change at least for a few months. im thinking, thats why i didnt make my daughter the decision maker on reviving me. i made my son, whom i know loves me, but he was a medical aid and would realise its time.

no i would prefer they let me pass away as i would not like to be like that at all. i would never know and all that would be is my family would be suffering so i would make sure its in my will for them to turn every thing off if i was in that situation.. hugssssss

Hii friend nice topic My answer is absouletly NO As m a guy who live life to the fullest and in this way there will be no life. It will be like an hell for me. And also i wont be able to live by seeing my family facing a hell lot of problems just for me

NO I wouldn't. That's why I think it is important to make a living will. That way nobody is playing God with your life & everybody knows your wishes. Discussin this with your family thoroughly might be a good way to go too.

NO, I would not want to live this way and I have already told my hubby that if anything like that ever happens to me then he is to let me go. Of course if he did not then I guess depending on the scale of the damage then I might not be aware of what was going on. But still I would not like the thought of everyone having to give up their lives to care for me.

I think the brain is the most in our body, ,it just like our life. If our brain damaged, how to survive?

No i wont.....

Absolutely NO,i dont like somebody will be suffer because of me..So i try to take care of my self.. and if i dont like this kind of situation then i still want to live untill my day will come that i will be gone :=)

I would want my family to pull the plug. Theres no point in having everyone waste their time and energy caring for me when im in a state that i probably wont be recovering from.