Is it really worth it?

i can give my life for my son and i think that's worth it. the guilt will be there for sure but my love will be greater that it will what he will feel rather than the guilt. i know every mom can do this for her child.

If love is my motive then yes.I won't make the superhero thing be my motive because I wouldn't want to blame anyone or for them to feel guilty because I did that on my own because I love them.

Girl, you need to put a sitcom on your TV pronto!

I would die for my kids or grandkids...they have alot of life left to live...I however probably don't as I am older and have much of my life behind me.....would you?

If it depends on one second that you can save somebody's life, there is no time for thinking. In that kind of situation something else decides what to do, not the brain. I think about cathastrophic situations, when heroes can be those kind of people who were not expected to save anyone's life. But if I think, about it, I'm not sure... If I could save my loved ones' life with mine, but I found it didn't worth it, I would feel guilty. But if I did, they would feel guilty. Whoever survived would feel bad about it I'm afraid.

I don't think that's how "the saved one" should look at things. I think he should consider himself lucky that someone choose to give up the most precious thing one has in order to save him and that he should live to the fullest. I understand your point of view but each and every single one of us are responsable for our own actions. "The savior" is responsable for his actions, and "the saved one" for his actions and way of thinking. He can choose to feel guilty or live happily, the one who saved him is not responsable for the choices the saved one makes.

On one hand, the person will live longer but I agree , they will have survivor's guilt.I would still want to safe my loved ones.

I'm willing to do anything for the sake of my family. I love them so much that if I have a chance to save them, I'll be there for them. Life would be worthless without them. But if it's a friend, I can't really answer that depending on the situation, I guess. As much as possible, whatever I can do to help, I would gladly do it.

I find it odd that - for someone to die naturally or through a disease or something..well, that's fine but if someone CHOOSES to die it isn't. I think about this a lot but am far too cowardly to do anything about it.

Well I think that would all depend on the situation. If your child was in danger of being killed, I am sure you would stand in front of your child so your child would not be harmed. I know I would. I know we do not want to die in a situation like that, but if it were me or my child I would go to save my child. After all, my child would have their entire life ahead of them. Just don't think about those things. You may never be in a situation hat you need to make a choice like that anyway.

If I had to, I would die for a friend or family. But yeah I had never thought of it that way, that the person had to live with the guilt. But I would make just want them to know, if I ever did die for them, that I would never put a blame on them and I did it coz I love them.

I think everyone did not want to die. but the people would die so I thought it worth if we are to die for the sake of family.

say its donating an organ the person who recieves the organ shouldnt feel guilty because the person who donated it made that choice so why should the reciever feel any guilt. Self sacrifice is and always be a brave act these people are real hero's

That's a difficult question, if it was for my kids definately I would do anything for them, but anyone else I don't know that I would die for them. My kids are my everything and if they needed something I would do anything for them. They have my unconditional love and my life.

Life should be ived every day as if it might be your last. Ofcourse it would be worth it to die for a good friend. And it all depends on how people think as to whether you are a hero or if they feel guilty. This happened to me and it isn't fun but I did get through it.

I think it is your heart,mind and soul would decide that situation.It is hard to say for now,it depends what will happen,or how can we react if that time will come.