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Question

The Fray released their hit, "How To Save A Life" a while back. This song has been interpreted in numerous ways and touched many. Here's my question. Have you ever had the chance to save a life? This can be interpreted in ways ranging from spiritual to physical. I look forward to reading your answers.

Answer 1

Yes, I had saved someone's life. They were going to take a knife to their throat and also a gun to their head. So I said put the weapons down or I'll call the cops. So I did. Now the person is in a safer place with nothing around him or her.

Answer 2

I think yes! A kind word, shoulder to cry on, a helping hand, a donation to a charity. These are all ways to save a life. Each day we interact with one another on a very "taken for granted" level. But the things we do effect things that others do. We influence each other more than the average person wants to admit. I like my freedom, control and choice as well as the next, but do realize that I am influenced by and have influence on others.
The act of saving a life in the general sense. Yes. The literal act is where we hear about "heros." those people that were in the right place at the right time and made the choice to step out of their busy lives to pull another's live out of the rubble.

Answer 3

Yes and No.

I have prevented people from committing suicide.

They eventually died anyway.

Their spiritual life might have been saved but their physical life ended regardless of everything I did.

What's worse, I have to deal with the thought that if I had not been there, their spiritual life might have been lost but my spiritual life might have been saved, as is my spiritual life might have been sacrificed to save their physical life.

Even worse, they might have already lost their spiritual life before I saved their physical life , in which case I only accomplished them suffering and me suffering as well.

I would not say it is a realization you should want to live with but I do. Sometimes we play God and in those moments we may be wrong even though we may be right as well.

If little of this makes sense it is because I prefer to leave specifics of these people's lives out of this to protect their memories.

Family members would prefer not to know that these people tried to end it all, and I am not going to add to their suffering by telling them otherwise.

In case you are wondering, that is a favorite song on "Grey's Anatomy" because they are always playing God as surgeons.

Answer 4

Yes actually I have saved my sisters life five times. I saved her from drowning three times, ran and pushed her out of the way of a car that didn't stop, and I caught her one time when she slipped off an edge that had numerous, sharp objects, rusty nails on it.

Answer 5

I don't think I've actually saved a life, techically speaking. But I may never know for sure. I may have said something to someone in passing that affected them positively, I may have smiled at the right person at the right time, I may have performed a seemingly insignificant act of kindness like holding a door open for someone, or let someone get in front of me in line...that may have reinstilled a faith in humanity in someone who just may have been at the end of their rope that day. I hope I have.

Incidentally, I've never heard the song you're talking about, but I'm definitely going to give it a listen now. Thanks.

Answer 6

I once saw a man that got a bad ride on a may-pop float. He had caught a small wave, they were breaking onshore about 2'-3'.He had been at it a while and as Lifeguard/Surfer I was naturally interested in watching the babe that had bought the high $ tanning lotion as she applied it to her, oh the dude was over her right knee, I had the binocs out and was being diligent, on the babe, when I saw the dude eat sand.
He had pearled the may-pop raft pillow and it stopped, he didn't. Head first at about 15mph into 1' of water. I ran, past the hot babe, to the water line blowing the whistle the entire way.
I approached the dude, he was out of it, unconscious, his neck looked funny.
Some other guy cam over and asked me,"You gonna pull him out?" I asked the man that said that if he wanted to help me. His answer was yes , so I didn't get mad. I pointed the dudes neck out and asked him to fetch that may-pop float.He went to get it, I sat at the dudes head and sorta kept him immobile with my knees.
His neck was messed up. The other man came back, may-pop in hand and asked,"What next?" I no longer felt that he needed a sock in the jaw, he was helping now.
A few more people had noticed and were standing watching, as people will do, I blew the whistle, one short blast, and told them to move along or get in the water behind me. A few did, it helped break the waves and I managed to hold the dude better.
We got the may-pop under the dude, his neck was messed up, and four of us managed to push the may-pop to the shore.I then asked for towels, and got six very fast, we placed them under the dude and I told them, "When I start lifting you start walking to the high water mark. I pointed at it as I spoke, they noddeed.We used the towels as lifting slings, threw the may-pop away.
We got the dude almost out of the water, but I was ascared to actually lift him full body cause his neck was pretty messed up.
About that time the ambulance arrived, I told the hot babe with the oil to get on my callbox and say #14 needs ambulance as I was passing her.
The dudes in the ambulance got a backboard out, we used the towels to place him on it and they loaded him on , in and took off.
I found out two days later the dude was ok, but his neck was messed up, he was gonna walk and stuff again.
The ambulance guys came around and thanked me, said my quick action had saved the dudes life, I nodded, that was my job, then I looked for that babe cause she had bought more oil.
Life is good.