If I lost an arm… or both arms… and a leg… I might decide I’d be better off dead.
Otherwise, no, not really.
Not sure what’s more amazing about the OP: that he values one hand so much, or that he values his life so little.
I’m sorry, maybe because it’s late and I’m not feeling my normal tolerant self, but I have to say…WTF???
Dude. It’s a fucking hand. Learn to type with one hand. Or dictate.
My family is wracked with diabetes. Two uncles and my father were amputees. Feet, then 4 legs, and two hands between 3 men.
They handled it, they didn’t wallow in pity or “wanna die”. Dad made jokes about learning to swim in circles with one leg, his brother Ray who was a 220 bowler right handed taught himself to bowl left handed on a fucking prosthetic foot and averaged in the 170’s after that. At age 64.
You live your life with your mind, your soul and your heart. Your hands and legs are tools to make it easier.
Fuck, you ruined my night, and I was all set to post something nice and funny about the surprisingly hot pizza delivery chick that came by tonight.
Now I just need another Stella. On second thought, I’m not going to let this fuck my mood. I got a cold beer, the Gram Parsons tribute concert on tv and a purring miracle next to me.
I’d get over the loss of the hand by playing with my new, super-cool, robotic claw.
A lot of people talk the big talk when they’re sitting health. I’m willing to bet the OP would be begging for them to cut her hand off if she was in a situation where it was die right THEN or lose the hand.
In Stephen Ambrose’s book Citizen Soldiers he reports that one medic heard lots of big talk from GIs prior to battle. They’d say stuff like “if it looks like I’d be paralyzed, or have to have an amputation, just leave me, I don’t want to live like that.” But when the situation actually came up the medic said he’d pulled hundreds upon hundreds of people back to the field hospital and never once did they do anything other than scream their heads off that they didn’t want to die.
You can totally masturbate with your non-dominant hand. What’s the problem?
Dude!! Learn to peck at the keyboard with your freakin hook!!
Pussies!
Going blind however…
People who say they’d rather die rather than be disabled suffer from such a total lack of imagination that their deaths would probably be no big loss to humanity. Seriously if you’re not resourceful enough to figure out how to live well without a left hand, then how good a life can you be managing with just two?
Definitely death. Ain’t no way I’m giving up my girlfriend.
Seriously, a hand or your life? Heart attack or cancer? what’s up with these ridiculously off-balance choice threads? I expect the next one will be “A lifetime of wealth and happiness vs a poke in the eye with a sharp stick: compare and discuss.”
Actually, it would be to your advantage. Most people have to accept that they won’t become writers simply because they’re too lazy or untalented. You, on the other hand (so to speak), would have a ready-made excuse for never attaining success.
A guy came to speak at my highschool who had no arms. He’d taught himself to do everything with his feet: drive his car, eat, write, etc. At one point he got us to close our eyes while he played drums and you really couldn’t tell that he was playing with his feet. He could also play the piano.
One up on him was a friend of mine from primary school. He was a thalodomide baby and instead of arms he had two stumps, one almost to his “elbow” and the other about half that. Instead of legs he had one malformed leg about 4 inches long with a club foot and the other was just a lump with a sort of half formed toe coming out. When he wasn’t in a wheelchair he could scoot across the ground on his buttocks at a fair clip, using a pen held between his stump and cheek he could write neater and faster than I still can, and using a pencil velcroed around the end of his longer stump he could hunt and peck a keyboard.
People who want to end their lives because they’ve lost a limb are pussies.
Whoops! I didn’t catch my mispelling! That’s thalidomide, of course.
Amen to that.
This “And what kind of a job would a one-handed person get? And who would ever be attracted to a one-handed girl, aside from a pathetic one-handed boy who can’t score a two-handed girl?” is possibly the most offensive thing I have ever read on the SD. My thoughts about the OP were originally more pitlike in nature but now I just feel sorry that your view of the world is so limited … there was me thinking writers had imagination and could see possibilities everywhere :rolleyes:
I wasn’t even going to go there because it’d piss me off. But yeah. If it’s not the most offensive thing I’ve seen, it’s up there.
Of course, if you are missing a hand and are convinced nobody will ever want you because of it, nobody ever will, because self-pity just isn’t attractive.
This is soooo bad, but I cannot resist…
“Bring out the gimp.”
Now to the OP-
JONI FREAKIN ERICKSON!
There just aren’t enough :rolleyes: in the world for this OP.
Blindness - total blindness - might, might make me at least think he has a point, but just one hand missing? Not only no, but hell no.
Almost anything a person does two handed can be done with one hand - even without a prosthetic - possibly not quite as efficiently, but it can be arranged. The whole career as a writer thing is just… okay - I just had a complete vocabulary failure at how unbelievably goofy that argument is. Writing is probably one of the least affected by amputation fields I can imagine. You can write with either hand! Or type with one hand. Or no hands. As anyone who’s ever broken their arm, for Pete’s sake.
Just… :rolleyes:
Who needs a right hand anyway? You can replace it with a BODY-POWERED PROSTHESIS WITH #5X DORRANCE STAINLESS STEEL HOOK!!!
As far as writing goes, you can get a 9-key pad with predictive text entry like they have for mobile phones and touch-type almost as fast as with a full keyboard. Sure, you’d have to do a little retraining, but come ON.
Right now, there are experimental robotic prostheses that use electrodes attached to muscles (and sometimes your brain) for control. You can move them just by thinking the motion. If I lost both hands today, I fully expect that I could learn to play the piano with protheses before I die.
But even ignoring that, losing a hand wouldn’t be that big a deal to me. I’d much rather lose a hand than a foot.
All other things being equal, I would have no problem being attracted to a one-handed girl.
If she had self-esteem issues such that she thought that her value as a human being was dependant on how many limbs she had, that would be much more of a concern.
Wow, I didn’t know this issue would be so heavily weighted to one side! I didn’t mean to cause offense, I was just curious after the episode. I know there are a lot of people with disabilities who have normal lives, and I didn’t mean to imply otherwise. It really does amaze me, the self-resolve of people who aren’t me.
As for the devaluation of life thing, I don’t really like living most of the time anyway, so yeah, this would be a kick-ass excuse to end it. Totally kick-ass.