Would you die for your partner?Follow

If I had reached a point in my life where I was happy with all that I had done and did not wish to bear the agony of losing the one I love most, yeah, I'd do it in a heart beat. The exception is that if I were healthy and had kids left, I'd stick around for them. However, in the story, it doesn't sound like either of them was very healthy.

What good is a 20 year old girlfriend if you're blind?

Yeah, I don't get off if I'm not visually stimulated. /shrug

I plan to live a life of solitude so this partner will never exist. That, and I'm sure Taco Bell will kill me before I have to worry about any other person dieing.

I don't see how this qualifies as "dying for your partner". They both had serious health issues and decided to go out together.

well, maybe if it wasn't too obnoxious a color...

But seriously, there would have to be a very fine line. Would I give my life to protect the right person? Probably. Would I trade places with them if I knew they were about to take a fatal bullet? I dunno. I like to think I would if I were that in love, but when the time came, I don't really know what I would do.

But committing suicide to be with someone else in death, no. Not really for religious reasons. I just think that killing yourself for any reason is giving up. Nannite medicine delivery systems are far from practical or widespread at this point, but they do exist on a small scale. It's really only a matter of time at this point before we start seeing some truly remarkable medical breakthroughs. Cancer is easy to cure if you can drive a tiny little robot directly to every tumor cell and vaporize it without harming the surrounding tissue. Old age is easy to cure if you can copy the missing telemeres (sp) from a stored sample or a stem cell and surgically graft them onto a cell. We won't see things like this for 20, maybe 30 years, but there will come a day when they will be widespread and taken for granted. If I don't live to see it, my children will.

Given the capabilities we know are practically possible already, and the rapid state of electronic advancement (memristors for example) I can't ever say I'd be willing to take the quick way out.

I'm not really religious, but I'd still have doubts just in case there's really eternal damnation for suicide.

I wouldn't want my partner to be anyone other than someone I loved enough to die for.

Dying with someone, however... no. Maybe if we were both CERTAIN death was coming and was unavoidable. I can't emphasize certain and unavoidable enough.

I can't state my opinion on this topic because I've never felt this way about another person, however, I definitely respect their choice and fully support assisted suicide.

You have much to learn about love, young padawan.

I'm not convinced yet that love is nothing more than a chemical reaction in my brain or an emotional weakness of addmiting "I'm not good enough to make myself happy but maybe if I attach myself to this other equally confused being I'll feel happier".

As you can guess every female I've planted my ***** In
and sometImes lived with is no longer around lol. Im open to the idea of love but it just seems as silly as good/evil, god, hero's, fate, easter bunny, etc.

I do envy people like that couple and hope I'm wrong on many things in life but for me, apathy towards others and self presertvation seem like a solid corse for now.

Absolutely.

On the other hand, if my partner was terminal, I'd be hard pressed to find life so precious or magical that I'd be capable of mustering enough excitement to continue living. I'd probably opt for suicide. Public, naked suicide that involves thousands upon thousands of spectators, preferably.

While I normally find the fumbling of others somewhat amusing, nothing quite hits the spot like MySpace existentialism. I find this clumsy cynicism uplifting in a way I find hard to articulate. In the blind terror of others I see the absurdity of my own fears.

Plus it's just really, really funny.