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Dead or Disabled what would you do?

If you were to have an accident that left you disabled i.e wheel chair bound. Would you consider taking your own life? I know you can't really say until some thing does happen. Just thinking, I personally take a lot of risks at work and when im having fun that have a fairly high potential to leave me disabled or dead. So just wondering what ever one else would think.




I saw i on yahoo answers. Seen as though every time we go out on the bike we risk being dead or disabled. What would you do?

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Depends on the level of disability...

If I became a burden on anyone or society in general I think death may be the answer for me.

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i agree

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Yeah, pretty much what I think as well. :smt002

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Yes. Whether I'd do it or not I don't know, but... well, yeah, I thought about it. But I think I probably wouldn't.

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Physically disabled - Alive
Vegetable - Stock ;)

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I'd be bored as f*k...but then I'd get a hayabusa trike thingy.

and pretend to stangers i was in 'Nam

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I dunno about that. The way some car drivers use the road, I think THEY are at risk of death ;)

certainly worthy of becoming deaf from a good ear bashing

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My gut instinct says no. Being wheelchair bound is not horrific enough to want to die (to me anyway). You can still live a decent life (id sooo pimp my wheelchair and make it super fast ;):cool:), see your friends and family and partner. Id rather be wheelchair bound and get to see matt everyday rather than commit suicide and leave him behind with a broken heart.

If I was brain-dead & paralysed and physically couldnt do a thing for myself or have any awareness of my surroundings (i..e in a vegetative state) then yeah..id rather given up at that point.

Do we? :confused: It depends entirely on how you ride. If you thrash from A-B at breakneck speed, carry out risky manouvers and treat the road as if it is a race-track then yeah, you probably do risk ending up dead or disabled. However if you ride with due care and attention to the road and your surroundings then you dont.

Although it probably wasn't your intention, you can expand this comment of "we risk being dead or disabled" to pretty much everything. I might crash in my car, I might fall down the stairs and break my neck, a cyclist could run into me while im crossing the road etc etc etc....lots of things that we do carry a risk of death or disability.

But we can't worry about the "what if's" otherwise we might as well lock ourselves in a room and never venture outside.

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Heavy.

Same as other i think. If i was useless then i'd wanna shuffle off and be worm food.

I saw an amazing article in a bike mag a few years ago about disabled riders. One dude had a dead arm (was still there but like a but of spaghetti that did nothing) from a smash into a car when out on his bike.

He did trackdays...riding entirlely one handed!!! Had all the controls rearranged accordingly and all that of course. he's not allowed to ride on the road but he loves his bike still.

His words...."Why the hell not, i'm not dead am i?" brilliant attitude i thought.