Do you think that saving someones life spiritualy ties you to that person? Even people you know who want to kill themselves or use drugs?
2006-09-05 09:55:20 · 14 answers · asked by Faust 5 in Arts & Humanities ➔ Philosophy
It depends on the person. Doctors, paramedics, and rescuers save lives as a matter of routine. They don't necessarily believe it spiritually ties their soul to all those people.
2006-09-05 10:00:21 · answer #1 · answered by Morgan S 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I've saved a few dozen lives while working as a lifeguard and on several occasions (I prevented a woman from grabbing her husband who was being electrocuted by a live wire, I disarmed an s.o.b., who shot and killed one person and shot the other 3 times and he attempted to shoot me because I prevented him from putting a bullet in the other person's head)... a few others I helped by performing CPR until an ambulance arrived (and they're alive)... I feel no connections, spiritual or otherwise, including a young man I wrestled from on a roof top as he attempted to kill jump off the ledge... nope, nada, zilch and nothing! Why should I? I did what I did and they do not owe me anything... what's the big deal? I see firefighters and police officers getting awards for doing what they're paid to do and being called "heroes..." Damned... that word is so over-used and has somehow lost some of its appeal, charm and meaning!
2006-09-05 12:11:30 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
A life is a life and a soul is a soul. When the life ends, the soul moves on. Saving a life can't tie it to teh soul unless you saved the life through a spiritual approach. It's possible, but usually only when you're connected to the person. And if you're connected to a person and they're happy, why would they try and off themself?
2006-09-05 14:09:25 · answer #3 · answered by angel 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
All people have emotional ties to each other. What that emotion is varies. If you save a person's life, that life is bound to you in some way: Anything they do in the future is in part, your responsibility because they wouldn't be here to do it if you hadn't saved them..Are you totally responsible? No, since they still have free will. Arguably, you are not responsible at all unless you take control of their lives in a hands-on manner.
2006-09-05 10:07:12 · answer #4 · answered by jelesais2000 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Julian, saving someone's life is possibly the finest act you can perform as a human being. Its obligations? In the Chinese culture, I believe, saving someone's life makes you responsible for that person for the rest of his//her life. I don't believe Western thought invests the lifesaver with any responsibilites for the action.
As for judging the person: is he on drugs? does she want to kill herself? You see someone about to die under whatever circumstances and give that person another chance at life.
How much she wants to die or how he is living his life is of no consequence here. You have done the noble deed. AnneM
2006-09-05 10:24:35 · answer #5 · answered by Annie M 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
there are basically 2 circumstances that has ever occurred that somebody has ever saved me one time as a splash one i shrunk Hyaline Membrane ailment the place the different artwork stress worked day and night to help me yet another whilst i became a Meir lad bout 5 or 6 as quickly as I almost drowned in a pool as for the different section i could might desire to declare kinda yet not probably through fact sometime my little cousin observed her dogs right into a snake infested pit and that i went to attempt to help her yet my dad stopped me an have been given her in the previous i've got been given her after that he chewed my a** out for it
2016-11-24 23:16:12 · answer #6 · answered by ? 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Our soul is already tied to everyone Else's' merely by virtue of our being human. You are obliged to save life, help, assist wherever possible. Ask not for whom the bell tolls.
2006-09-05 10:07:31 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
I'm a nurse and i work saving lives everyday
and in a way you can't help but to be a part of that person's life.
it comes back to you in ways you really don't know.it can be through helping someone and it comes back three time foe.like your prayers to GOD being answered. and other things to.
2006-09-06 03:41:49 · answer #8 · answered by DENISE 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
No. But it'll never, ever leave your conciousness.
2006-09-05 10:01:01 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
I guess it can, but I don't think in all cases it does.
2006-09-05 09:57:43 · answer #10 · answered by Rawrrrr 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋