The Ultimate Choice

@Ashida (1370)
United States
December 24, 2006 10:31am CST
Your spouse and your child are drowning. You can only save one. Who would you save and why?
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9 responses
@edelweiss (1929)
• India
24 Dec 06
i'll save my child and die with my spouse... wouldn't it be the right thing to do? or you'll say you should stay alive for the kid... or i'll say i'll save the wife coz we can have more kids together... each life is important. and god forbid, i never have to make this choice... coz then i'll ask god.. if he wants one life take mine.
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@Ashida (1370)
• United States
24 Dec 06
I wish that was an option in this situation! Thanks for the thoughtful response!
• China
24 Dec 06
It's such a crutal situation if I have to do the choice. Maybe I cannot get the answer till the end. I cannot afford it!
@Ashida (1370)
• United States
24 Dec 06
knowing me I'd probably stand on the shore trying to decide until I lost them both. I just don't know what I would do until I was in that situation, and I hope that never comes.
• United States
24 Dec 06
My child. Because I know I would want my spouse to do the same thing if the position were reversed. That said, I'd pull some sort of crazy mental overload thing and save them both.
@Ashida (1370)
• United States
24 Dec 06
I guess this is a no-win situation and no-win situations stink.
• United States
24 Dec 06
My child. My husband couldn't live through the loss of another child and would never forgive me for letting one of the kids drown.
• Chile
24 Dec 06
I geuss I couls not choose... too difficult for me to choose between those... anyway, I knew a person once, and he owas the CHILD saved by his father... so, his father chose him instead of her wife.. too sad
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@Ashida (1370)
• United States
24 Dec 06
my goodness. I would say for this discussion though, that if you don't choose one, then both would die.
@raghwagh (1527)
• India
24 Dec 06
This is difficult question and many times such question is asked.One cannot answer this question from imotional point of view.But if we think practically then I tink I will save my spoce as we can have many children then.
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• United States
28 Dec 06
I don't know what I would personally do - but I think my husband would say me. I say that because years ago we discussed what would happen if I was giving birth and complications arose. I told him to choose the baby and he said he would not. He'd choose me cause there was only one me and we could have more babies. But I'm not sure. It's a difficult desecion. I think I would go with what I felt instinctivly at the time.
@utsadetti (4589)
• United States
24 Dec 06
I can't choose
@makem0ney (293)
24 Dec 06
i would die myself to save the rest of my family, i couldnt choose just one out of my family
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