If you survived an attack/accident.....
 

... of somesort and were left SERIOUSLY facially disfigured for life, would you feel lucky to have lived or unlucky?

Unlucky, I would just feel slightly less unlucky than if I had died

I wouldn't go outside again and I'd feel very unlucky.

Lucky at first, but gradually unlucky as time went on.

What I mean is, would you rather die than be left facially disfigured?

this, and I would tell my friends to never look at me again
joking, kind of

Oh right umm no probably not, although I think I'd become a hermit

But then what life is that?

Disfigurement...I would rather survive.

Paralysis or something, would rather die.

:laugh:

I think I'd prefer to be alive. I think I could adapt to being disfigured.

If i could get a mask like Richard Harrow from Boardwalk Empire then i suppose it wouldn't be that bad

I'd feel lucky I still had life, I wouldn't care as to the facial disfigurement,I would still be me and if others couldn't see past that,that's their problem not mine.

I would be really glad to be alive and so no,I would not want to have died.

I think I would be lucky to live.

Just watching a doc called "I was bitten" on DMAX and this guy had his face literally ripped off by a bear. His eyes gouged out yet he feels so lucky to have lived. Just made me think.....


You know what I'm like with my TV induced threads :laugh:

One which would be preferable to not having one altogether. I could still read, watch films and tv, play video games, go on walks, play some sports and I'd still have friends over sometimes. It wouldnt be great but I'd adjust to it I think

You'd save money on halloween costumes if your face was messed up.

omfg. HAHAHAHA

Still not entirely practical. What about if you have to leave home in an emergency? Say an incident happened and you're evacuated? Or if you need shopping? Or when someone knocks on the door?

Well then I'd just have to face it, and try and hide it as best I could or something. I just always think that life is worth living, even if it's not how you wanted things to go

I'd feel lucky to still be alive (as long as I could see and hear). I think a part of me would always be mournful though to what I once was.

If I was left looking like the elephant man but still had the chance to see my kids grow up, I would feel like the luckiest person in the world.

I would feel lucky, but I don't think I would be happy. Depends which stage of life I was in. If I had kids I'd probably be overjoyed I hadn't left them. But if it was like in my 20s then id probably hate it because it would stop you from doing so many things and the likelyhood is that I wouldn't find a partner and it would cause me to be alone.

Unlucky. If I had a serious disfigurement it would affect my whole existance in a negative way that would make life unbearable.

Excellent statement Happyland.

Thank you Joey. :)

I would rather have survived, obviously it would be really hard to come to terms with but my kids are young and I would definitely rather be around for their sake, to make sure they're ok and see them grow up

lol, snap Lee, I think most parents would put their vanity aside to be there for their kids :)

and what if you didn't have kids, and couldn't find a partner because you were so ugly that you give up on the chance of ever finding someone to love you and have kids with?? what then?

It's easy to say beauty is on the inside, but how many of us here have ever dated someone so hideously deformed?

Let's not sugar coat things, Sex is an important part of any relationship, and if you are disfigured to the point that you are not physically attractive yu will be lonely. Even if you have enuf money to attract someone, you will still know deep down that yu are physically repulsive and not physically attractive to that person, so really you are cheating that person out of a fullfilling sex life. that's incredibly selfish.

let's be real.

Life is about more than just partnering though. So i'd be happy to be alive with or without anyone else's love. I love myself enuf to not need to burden anyone else.

That's a good point and maybe I would feel differently in that case

I'm not sugar coating things Alex.. I'm talking about me personally ad I do have two young children and I have a terrible fear of anything happening to me and not being there for them or seeing them grow up.

However, I do agree with you.. I'm not so sure if I'd feel so lucky if I was single and childless.

I didn't mean you were sugar coating things, i just meant in general. Obviously you having children completely rules your perspective, i'm sure you would endure any torture and any suffering you had to if it meant seeing your children just 1 more time. Any parent would i assume.

You retore my faith in people, joeysteele. I was beginning to despair of all the people who would rather be dead than unattractive.

To quote the inimitable Judge Judy... Beauty fades, but dumb is forever.

I would feel lucky they not finish me off.
The attackers would be feeling very unlucky cos I would hunt them down and go all Keyzer Soze on their arse.
Then I would become a vigilante comic book character, think up a cool name for myself, get armed with lots of guns, grenades and do training.
Hunt down criminals and wipe them out until dead or captured :xyxwave:

Thank you so much Livia, I believe life is precious.

Also to repay the compliment a little, I agree with near all and respect what you say also,I have learned a fair bit from you on many topics on this forum.

(I also love Judge Judy,she has some great one-liners).