Poll: Guys. Are you afraid of being injured or wounded or catching a serious disease like cancer and such?

[Mr F.]

I drink, I smoke, I barely excercise or eat. I would assume that eventually something bad will happen to me as a result. I mean, I am (Apparently) mentally ill and I have a buggered up heart anyway (Tachycardia and Arrhythmia have plagued me for years).

One day something bad will happen to me.

Nothing I can do, Might as well knuckle down and get work done and just hope that if it does happen I will either A) Be alone and affect noone or B) Have a loving family that wont get too fucked up by my death. Either or really.

 

[SkullKing84]

No. I've been told by doctors a few times that they thought I've had brain tumors. Turned out each time.... was a nasty localized infection that left some damage. So, now they plainly put it; At anytime, or anywhere I may keel over dead by infection to my heart or brain. So... yeah. I've stopped worrying, but it'd suck all the same when or if bad things happen.

 

[Binkan]

Alot of stuff has happened to me so im not surpirsed if something happens now the one thing i hate the most if something happens is when friends and family say that they are there to support you through whatever happens and they just betray you that is what hurts the most.

 

[Da Orky Man]

Nah. I don't much care. I *am* afraid people will refuse to euthanise me and I will be too weak to do so myself. That is what terrifies me. But then I console myself thinking that I know my way around a hospital, and all I will need is meticulous planning and my awful, awful stealth.

Methinks theres a game to be made int there.

You play as an elderly sufferer of [insert degenerative, terminal disease here] and your goal is get yourself killed through any means possible. You sneak around the hospital trying to find a syringe with something lethal in it, or a knife, or some stairs that lead to the roof, or even panic people to the point at which SWAT jumps in.
However, the effects of said disease limit your abilities, so you could have the controls randomly reassigned every 30 seconds or something.
...
Mods, please don't ban me. I already know how horrible I am.

 

[thejackyl]

Getting injured doing everyday things? No
Getting injured enough to warrant a long hospital stay? Yes

Example: Car accidents can severely injure/kill people. I still drive because I don't feel like walking 10 miles to my job. However Icy road conditions make driving more hazardous. You won't catch me driving the same way I do on a nice day when the roads are icy.

I'm not necessarily afraid of dying, we all have to at some point. It's more the manner of which it happens. I'd rather it be quick and painless rather than slow and painful.

 

[kasperbbs]

I don't think about it, if it happens then it happens, theres nothing i can do about it.

 

[White Lightning]

Pfft no, one of the perks of being invincible is that I don't have to worry about such things. Not if you'll excuse me I must be going, those Sharks aren't going to fight themselves.

 

[Hagi]

Death doesn't scare me, nothing to be scared about on account of me being you know... dead... So I won't be there to be afraid.

Dying can be scary, but it's not something that really keeps me busy.

I usually go by c'est la vie, shit happens or however you want to call it.

 

[Cookiegerard]

I would put myself down as "oh my god, my arm tingled a little, I am going to have a god damn heart attack". I panic very easy, and it is only the fact I am worried I would have to spend money to get a check up in the hospital that stops me from running there every time I get a cough.

 

[Yopaz]

I don't want injuries or disease, but I can't say I'm actually afraid of it happening. I have common sense enough to avoid accidents, I don't drive so it's not like I have any chances of crashing. As for diseases I guess the only thing I fear is Alzheimer.

I am afraid and worried about so much other things though.

 

[PeterMerkin69]

I don't really worry about it. I've been hit before, and I've had nerve damage in my face from a virus, and I have asthma, and I've broken bones and cut myself, so I know at least a little bit of what to expect from physical pain, and besides we're all going to die anyway, so it doesn't really matter.

Sometimes I tense all of my muscles from my head down to my toes and pretend I'm a corpse with rigor mortis.

 

[Canadamus Prime]

No, but there are plenty of other things that I fear however.

 

[Dimitriov]

Like 6 different yes options and 1 no?

Broken ass poll, mate. No, and I don't give a fuck. Shit happens.

 

[Chemical Alia]

No, not really. There's a lot of cancer in my family, so I try and take care to minimize my risks in that health regard. I've got an injured wrist as a result of the army that makes a lot of things I do painful, but I don't regret anything there, either. As for accidents, I went through having a close family friend get run over by a bus on his way home from school when I was in high school, and my 18-year-old cousin is in a rehab center recovering from severe brain trauma after an accident in November. Things like this have taught me that accidents can happen at any time that you can never prepare for, and to be as careful as possible but not to let the risk of something bad happening ruin your life.

 

[DarkhoIlow]

Yea, I'm quite afraid of that actually. But my current condition which is being overweight already has a few bad implications if I continue on this path (already having trouble breathing due to it), but I am too stupid or oblivious to do something about it.

 

[Jamieson 90]

Not normally no but I caught chicken pox on Wednesday so the last 3-4 days have been absolute hell, because apparently chicken pox is a lot worse as an adult, and it certainly feels that way because it's so serious you can die from it, so thankfully up till now I've not had any complications like pneumonia, or any infections of the brain (sounds lovely I know) or things like bone infections or toxic shock syndrome, so yes it's quite worrying.

 

[Darken12]

Nah. I don't much care. I *am* afraid people will refuse to euthanise me and I will be too weak to do so myself. That is what terrifies me. But then I console myself thinking that I know my way around a hospital, and all I will need is meticulous planning and my awful, awful stealth.

Methinks theres a game to be made int there.

You play as an elderly sufferer of [insert degenerative, terminal disease here] and your goal is get yourself killed through any means possible. You sneak around the hospital trying to find a syringe with something lethal in it, or a knife, or some stairs that lead to the roof, or even panic people to the point at which SWAT jumps in.
However, the effects of said disease limit your abilities, so you could have the controls randomly reassigned every 30 seconds or something.
...
Mods, please don't ban me. I already know how horrible I am.

If Mew-genics is getting the green light, I fail to see how such a game wouldn't get the same treatment as well. In other words, best. game idea. ever.

 

[Varrdy]

Of course - we are surrounded by danger of death, exposed to all manner of nasties and yet we largely ignore it. We have to otherwise we'd go stark-staring bonkers with Paranoia. Sure it's laudable to minimise the risk with healthy living and such (not that I could ever claim to be "healthy") but, like most things you can't control, you have to crack-on and keep your fingers crossed!

Captcha: "Way To Go" - talk about a loaded meaning! Personally I want to go doing something heroic and manly...

 

[JagermanXcell]

No, cancer a little since I know people that had it and it sounds horrible, but not even death scares me.

What I don't like is when other people get hurt, emotionally and physically. Screw survival of the fittest,
I LOVE AND CARE FOR ALL OF YOU!!!

 

[Shadow-Phoenix]

Not really because I've come to endure certain amounbts of pain from what I've had happen in the past such as:

Having glass shatter and split my right big toe open.

Losing my right big toe nail completely and still played football (gym teacher made me play regardless of the Dr)

Having a rusty nail go right through my left foot and never caaught anything bad from it and didn't really feel anything.

Having been thrown from my bike and landing knees first right into dusty gravel and still walking the next day (during my trip at spain.

Having my right thumb join split open after a metal pole struck it.

Falling down the stairs at home and not suffering anything bad.

Having a solid dodgeball hit me directly in the face which shattered my glasses.

Having some pleb back in highschool throw a metal object at me which caused quite a lot of blood loss from the right side of my head.

And more recently accidentally diced my left ring finger quite deeply letting out quite a bit of blood but I just wrapped that up and carried on my day.

With all that I have endured I tend to heal rather quickly and manage to endure certain amounts of pain from time to time and just end up shrugging it off.