How much for another day? (grace, blood, God, Article)

[evearael]

I just read this article and I began to ponder the actual pricetag I would attach to my existance. New medical proceedures can extend life for moderate durations, but are a heavy financial burden.

How much would you pay to be alive for one more day?

A week?

A month?

A year?

At what point, is it simply too much to pay?

I love life, but I tend to be frugal and I wouldn't want to financially devastate my husband and daughter. I prefer quality to quantity and try to live each day as if it's my last...

[Booko]

Originally Posted by evearael

I just read this article and I began to ponder the actual pricetag I would attach to my existance. New medical proceedures can extend life for moderate durations, but are a heavy financial burden.

How much would you pay to be alive for one more day?

A week?

A month?

A year?

At what point, is it simply too much to pay?

I love life, but I tend to be frugal and I wouldn't want to financially devastate my husband and daughter. I prefer quality to quantity and try to live each day as if it's my last...

If I'm not coming back, please do not connect me to any silly machines.

Yes, that pretty much sums it up for me.

[Snowbear]

Originally Posted by evearael

How much would you pay to be alive for one more day?

Nothing.
I figure that when God's ready for me, He'll take me Home and I wouldn't WANT to pay to delay that day

Originally Posted by evearael

At what point, is it simply too much to pay?

I have already decided that if I end up with the "Big C" or some other terminal ailment, I will choose my options depending on the potential to "cure" the disease. If the treatments are only to extend life by a couple of weeks or months, at great financial, emotional and physical cost, it's not worth it, IMO. As I said above, while I believe that God uses medicine to heal, He also has a hand in it.... as a paramedic, I've seen people live who "should" have died from devastating injuries and I've seen people die who didn't seem like they should have.

A guy I work with found his seemingly completely healthy young (early 40's) wife dead in their home one day. The M.E. found NO reason for her to be dead.... no evidence of heart attack, stroke, trauma, drugs.... nothing.

Another guy I work with and his wife had a baby. About a week after giving birth, his wife collapsed. He took her to the hospital where she was diagnosed with toxic shock syndrome from an infection from a "flesh-eating" form of Streptococcus she got from the hospital where she gave birth. She was on total life support for over a week with the doctors continually telling my co-worker that she was not expected to live. After she was released from the hospital a few weeks later, the ICU staff marvelled that she was the sickest patient they had ever had who survived.... they threw a party for her when she went home.

Lesson for me - when it's our time, nothing we can do will change it.

[angellous_evangellous]

How much I give will depend entirely on how much I have.

Right now, it aint much.

[Smoke]

Originally Posted by evearael

New medical proceedures can extend life for moderate durations, but are a heavy financial burden.

I don't want to die, but long ago I accepted the fact that I will, probably not at a time or in a way of my own choosing, and leaving things undone and unsaid.

I'd choose treatment based on the prognosis for recovery. I wouldn't want to merely survive; I'd want to get well.

If I could buy just six months and spend that six months traveling, learning, writing, and having good times with loved ones, I'd buy that six months. But I wouldn't buy six months to creak along, prolonging my own suffering, increasing the burden on my loved ones, just to be alive. The quality of life means more than the length of it, and a human life is always short. Better to lay it down gracefully when the time comes.

[ladyhawke]

Originally Posted by MidnightBlue

I don't want to die, but long ago I accepted the fact that I will, probably not at a time or in a way of my own choosing, and leaving things undone and unsaid.

I'd choose treatment based on the prognosis for recovery. I wouldn't want to merely survive; I'd want to get well.

If I could buy just six months and spend that six months traveling, learning, writing, and having good times with loved ones, I'd buy that six months. But I wouldn't buy six months to creak along, prolonging my own suffering, increasing the burden on my loved ones, just to be alive. The quality of life means more than the length of it, and a human life is always short. Better to lay it down gracefully when the time comes.

I'm with MidnightBlue on this, even thou i have a 15yr old son i would'nt want him to see me in a postion of being hooked up to machines and whatnot to just keep me going for as long as possible,my ex husband and his girlfriend are the dearest friends i have,so i know my son will be looked after should i have to leave him,and hopefully his memories of me would be good ones,and he could be happy knowing i had'nt suffered unduly.

[Comet]

It depends...

1. If there is something I really had to do I would pay everything to stay alive one more day to do it. When I am dead, money and stuff won't mean a thing to me anyway.

2. Wouldn't pay a thing. When it is my time to go I shall welcome it as a release from the burden of this world.

As for being hooked up to a machine, I would not allow it! My family knows that I will not even take blood and will not live by any means but my own and life's.

[Francine]

Originally Posted by Comet

If there is something I really had to do I would pay everything to stay alive one more day to do it. When I am dead, money and stuff won't mean a thing to me anyway.

I would pay everything...to people who needed the money.