Locked in syndrome: not able to speak or move. Only able to blink if even that.
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CutiePie
id hate to have people walking in my hospital room just staring at me with pity. id rather have a quick easy death. friends and family could mourn and move on instead of forever mourning.
Jordan Brooke Woodwo
I've had that happen to me before and it's honestly the worst feeling I've ever experienced
theme7331
there was an experiment where people where completely isolated form everything. the test was supposed to last 42 days. The subjects went insane after 4.
Cerulean
@CutiePie Well... That's a bad way to die, I'd rather stand loyal to the end and die while defending my friends.
mouwersor
Why have you all chosen to die? That's the stupidest thing ever, litteraly. Let me explain: Imagine losing an arm, it would be bad right, riiiiight? NO! It's just a little less positive, imagine being in a world where everybody had only one arm, it would be no problem at all. If you have locked-in syndrome you lost a lot of positive stuff, but that doesn't mean your life has become negative.
PaperlessPaper
At least with this it is quick and easy. I wont be laying around all day with nothing to take care of me.
James
Hey is that a bus!?
Talking2idiots
@mouwersor, we would rather die than sit still until death, not bieng able to ee, poop, or eat without tubes going in and out of our body. And anyways, (For me at least) I would rather ascend to the Heavens than a fate nearly worse than hell.
Claufia
mouwersor,you have a point,but i don't think you'd like to spend the rest of your life in a hospital connected to appliances
Glaceon999
Get hit right at the moment I was going to die anyway for natural causes.
Cassirinda
Oculus rift. GG!
KarKatSuffer
Mouwerser, You would be hooked up to machines for years without much of a will to live.
AtomikCheez
There is no cure for locked in syndrome
Bob
@mouwersor stfu optomist
Elite Hardwave full
i not going die but Ayrton Senna get car f1 and dead for crash
Lamborghini
No one said I was getting hit right now. Just whenever.
Toby Moore
Hes right imagine not being able to do anythinh for the rest of ur life
Charlotte057
Tbh some people still mourn forever if a family member dies. :/
Sonkoso
@mouwersor It's not "a little less positive". You're a vegetable. You can't move, drink, go to the bathroom, talk, ANYTHING, without the help of tubes and other people. And the worst thing is: you're aware of it all. You're stuck, sitting there, trapped in your body, watching as all of this happens to you and around you. Can you imagine the humiliation of having to watch someone wipe your butt? Of drooling down your chin like a baby until someone wipes it up? And the worst thing is: you can't end it. There is no going "Oh hey, this kinda sucks, I don't like it, I wanna die now" no. Because you're technically still a functioning human being, you can't have the plug pulled. There is no choice of killing yourself. You're stuck.
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I'll follow the sun
CutiePie- you swayed my vote.
Sarah
Yeah I would want a quick death
SansTheSkeleton
@mouwersor Your right, and i know because i only have one arm now
Brhar_
Who said the car does hit you
amazingthings
red ppl stop talking ur ded already
DA UNIPUG
but a car wont hit me
movingpicturesR40
itd be so much better than suffering every day of your life
GareBear
Well, assuming that we never find a cure, dying right away seems the better way to go. But in all actuality, we're getting pretty close to giving them a lot more power. Not restoring them to the way they were before locked in syndrome, but hooking them up to computers in such so they can type and surf the web.
Ivo3185
Which is really ALL WE NEED! :D
Common Sense
Pain, or no pain?
Common Sense
Pain, or no pain?
stalebagelz
Just because something is not in sight doesn't mean it isn't coming ;)
KMH690
You would have to crap in front of everyone
Zak Soenario
Boiled down its a choice between life and death. I'd take living every time even if it includes being an inert mute retard
Void
...why? that is today's torture, it's apparent you haven't gone through anything MAJOR
chickedy2534
Don't forget being a vegetable!
ricky
you like to be a vegetable?
Geezjam
Vegetabling is uncomfortable
Jacob
I guess you guys just really believe you'll be going to heaven when you die. Otherwise you must just not like life. By the way, a guy with this syndrome wrote a book, which was also made into a film: "The Dive Bell and the Butterfly", I believe it was called.
ribbonista
wow. yes. because the inability to move or speak automatically means you're stupid. of course. here is your medal of douchebaggary
ribbonista
wow. yes. because the inability to move or speak automatically means you're stupid. of course. here is your medal of douchebaggary
Doctor Awesome
I find it quite offensive that you think the term "retarded" means "stupid", ribbonista. I suggest you keep that medal for yourself.
Xyzavex
@Jacob how could he have written a book if he couldn't speak or move?
Vampn
@Jacob I'm an atheist
Josey
if its not that fun ur existance is just annoying to other people
Maddin Frosch
Well Jacob, I believe that there are 3 possible things. I die and all the time of the universe is just over me. I die and reincarnate. I die and come in some kind of dream.
Mr.Green27
I wanted to press info!!!!!!!!!!!!
Jamberry101
I HATE that, when you accidentally hit one of the options instead of info
HopeyousteponaLego
I know right, when I decide to go on the app, and make a mistake! XD
Jadeylady
I think it'd be better for friends and family too, it'd suck to watch someone live like that.
aanda_tv
Agreed
JesseBrony
My biggest fear has to be living as a vegetable/life support/locked in. I will always choose dying over suffering.
MyCotingaBird
Oh, me too.
littlepup21
I chose red cause id hate for people to have to take away time of their life just to take care of me and i cant do anything in return. If i died they would mourn then go back to a normal life
Kyle Weaver
Damn iphone
Michael James C
No cure in sight =/= no cure EVER. You people give up to easily.
Mossy
too* easily. Please.
XYZinferno
A cure to cancer is "in sight" yet we still haven't made it. If a cure is not in sight, it will probably take longer than your lifetime to get it.
MyCotingaBird
You would rather be brain-dead? Are you serious?
Mr.Green27
I wanted to press info!!!!!!!!!!!!
You
Someone's been watching house.
BeatlesForever_
Nigga ima die better than suffer
Apple Jack
I'd communicate through blinking to get people to entertain me all day. Then when I have enough, close my eyes.
XxdragonstarxX
Id rather live in pain XD
MyCotingaBird
Are you serious?
RealityWarping
At least I'd die quicker and probably more peacefully because I don't feel my life would be worth living with locked in syndrome.
MyCotingaBird
Yep. I don't think many people want to suffer, either.
Mhikei Kleel
Well i get to live so.
MyCotingaBird
But you won't be able to move.
lonewolf
learn morse code, blink to communicate. have someone recorded my thoughts if I think of something awesome.
Anthony Johnson
What's locked in syndrome?
Void
it explains in details
MyCotingaBird
Basically, brain-dead.
Ethan
no matter what you die
SmoothSasha
Its not about the length of your life. Its about the quality. I'd rather spend 10 minutes with Emma Watson then 10 years with an ugly person. So this is basicaly quality over quantity.
Devus55
Stephen Hawkings... Look how successful he is.
iMustacheUaQuestion
AHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH -dies-
BearGrylls
I WANT TO BE A GOD DAMN CARROT!
MyCotingaBird
Are you serious?
Anon
I don't want to be a retard. I'd rather go to heaven.
Doctor_Sherlock
You won't go to heaven if you keep calling people retarded.
aanda_tv
Retard is not the same as a vegetable
MyCotingaBird
@Doctor_Sherlock Calling people names will not send you to hell. Killing people with no remorse will.
Mr Nope
Car hits me when I'm 101 years old
MandMs05
In this modern day and age, I could easily have a tablet with a TTS to speak with and control a wheelchair with my eyes. It'd be expensive, but it wouldn't be the end of the world. And there's still so many things here, like music and sunrises and the wonderful people...
Jonathan
The blue is horrible and I can only feel bad for the people that have it.
DiggyDog27
Lol
c0d0ps
"Living on your knees is not living". - Someone It won't be a worthwhile life for me or my family/friends. Play Life Is Strange and you will get some insight into it. I think it is episode 4.
Husky
no slowmo
ayden timmerman
why live a life of misery and depretion
declan
unlimited booze in heaven
FierceFang
is everyone crazy?
Annygron8
rather feel pain than nothing at all. People give up too easily. I have hope that never dies (and I lucid dreams too, wich sure helps :B).
XYZinferno
Nope. Red = death. Blue equals torture for a long time. And torture for loved ones.
MyCotingaBird
Look who's talking.
Filipp Pöyhönen
As much I'd like to die, I'd do it at a right time after I'm done with stuff, and I would like it to be mostly painless. You didn't say *when* I can get a cure.
ARADPLAUG
You can still watch videos
Carl
There's still a chance to live, so take it you pussies!
MyCotingaBird
Description says no cure. So yes, you may live, but you will forever be immobile.
pmaguire13
STARING CONTEST
Theorcofdead
otherwise listen to Metallica, One. just change the landmine part with cars
mouwersor
Why would you want to die?! Imagine all the things you have better than a dead person, basically everything you have and can do. You could enjoy life without being able to move or communicate.
Shae
how? You can't move, communicate. The only thing you can do is watch or listen to people having fun around you. You can't laugh smile or express yourself in other way except perhaps blinking if that. And you can't do a single thing for yourself. Without other people constantly taking care if you you'd kick the bucket. I'd go mad...IN A DAY.
MyCotingaBird
I second Shae on that.
Ian Lusk
I isn't mean it! I hit the wrong one!
Mateo
Doctor House can save me from locked in syndrome.
Leonard Leijenhorst
Nobody's saying it cant be cured.
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Leonard Leijenhorst
"no cure in sight" is NOT EQUAL to "without a cure". Don't give up too easily.
MyCotingaBird
Description clearly says "no cure." Can you not read?
Stewiepwn
The thought of having locked in syndrome is terrifying to me. I'd hate to be conscious, but completely paralyzed.
idpiasg
What car and holy s**t it's headed right for me! NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!
Paige
I wouldn't want to live like that, I'd rather die right when the car hits me..
Angharad Reed
Bit harsh considering a man just died from this after losing his court case about being able to kill himself..
Goobtoob6
Why have locked in syndrome when you can just die instantly
draco
get rid of cars boi
panda
amigo estare ciego pero vivo supongo
Fluffy
i rather die when the car hit me those people are bullied for that and i could go though that AgAiN