Can you name something you think is worse than death?

[Anonymous]

I would say living a life paralysed from the neck down.

Being paralysed from the neck down means their neck itself is typically not paralysed so they can speak. Just everything below that is. So they cannot use both of their two arms and two legs.

[DrPepper12]

Watching loved ones be obliterated by dementia

[Surely]

Being burnt to within an inch of death!

[Surely]

Thank you for the MHO!

[WindAtMyBack]

This is 100% up to the individual.

I have been in the position of deciding if my own father would live or die. My 'yea' or 'nay' decided if he would live or die, literally. I had complete control over whether he lived or died.

That decision had nothing to do with what I wanted, but what I thought he would want. That decision was not about what *I* thought was worse than death, but what *he* thought was worse than death. It's individual.

Your example of being paralyzed from the waist down is something I'm sure my father would think was worse than death, and that's how I would decide.

Did I know for an absolute fact what he would want? No. But I had to make the decision anyway.

Talking to a lot of old people at the time, I know that everyone has their own idea of what is an acceptable quality of life and what is not.

But what it's REALLY about is not what is worse than death. Whether or not it's worse than death depends on what the chances are of getting better.

[SecretsofKB]

Nurse here. I have spent my whole career in the ICU setting (MICU, SNICU, CVICU). There are SO MANY worse things than death. There are so many worse things than being paralyzed. This is just the physical/medical side of things. Mental health is a whole other beast.

[blackeagle007]

You seem female

[NaultD]

Death is inevitable so it's weird to me even to think of it. In the same way as you need air to breath. Death is more of a void of something then anything I can coherently convey.

So it's hard compare to SOMETHING vs a void of nothing. I'm also not trying to be edgy atheist here either. I'm more agnostic. Im more it's not my place to know what happens after.

[LongLiveBillGates]

If you had to live around a bunch of white supremacists CONsrvatives and CONspiracy theorists that would certainly be worse than death. Fortunately I live in a very liberal big city that doesn't tolerate CONservatives CONspiracy theorists and white supremacists.

[FunkyMonkee]

I don't know what death is like, other than what I've heard others say about it so, I don't know what's worse than death. I guess, being alive but suffering in great pain.

[Hellraiser1984]

Being married to someone you don't really love and her family hating you and your children.

[FreyaRed]

Eternal live with never ending pain

[exitseven]

getting Alzheimer's disease.

[jahaims]

A ton of different kinds of torture is way worse

[beefcakebradybatson]

Clubbing a fat broad !!!

[Anonymous]

Being a vegetable