Philosophically speaking, How do you think that you would handle receiving the news that you have a life ...?

Question

altering illness?
How do you think that you would you process this?
Would your Philosophical views hinder or help you?
Would they change?

You have all given thoughtful answers, thank you.

Answer 1

I'd probably act like I was very strong while being given the news, then I'd go home breakdown and sob.
I know I would definitely come out the other side of something like this changed, how though I can not say.

Answer 2

You sure know what to ask....
... but I don't know what to answer.

Let me put it this way:
I have a rather ethereal philosophy. It did not change (nor will I expect it ever will) because of that life altering illness. I live in the now and my illness is limiting seriously what I can do, want to do. But my mind and connection to God are still working as are my connections to the people I love. That always was the most important part in my life. It just became even more. Not more important...just more.

Anything that doesn't kill me may try again. It certainly does not make me stronger.

Answer 3

I could probably handle and deal with any physical affection except on-coming blindness. Blindness to an artist, a serious visual artist such as I would be totally devastating.

Other than that, I would refuse to let anything, any illness, get the best of me.

Examples: Say I'm suddenly wheel-chair bound. So what? I'll still get around, still get outdoors, still drive, still keep my body as healthy as possible. Say I find out I will have to have a leg or arm removed. So what? .It won't stop me from doing what I intend to do in life. It will only slightly alter my approaches to getting things done. I'm left-handed. If I had to lose my left arm I'll paint and write with my right hand. So what? If I lose a leg? I'll wear a peg leg and become known as the artist who wears a peg leg. And I'll always take as good as care of the rest of my body so that I can have a long, fulfilling life. Cancer? If it's in early enough stages I'll beat it. If it's in later stages I'll kick butt and be as creative as possible for as long as possible and create my best work.

The point is this: There are many children born whose whole short lives are filled with suffering, poverty and prolonged illnesses, who would have been better off not being born. Most of the rest of us have had healthier lives, have loved and been loved, have had achievements and done something worthwhile to look back on.

My views or fortitude wouldn't change. When life knocks me backwards a step from time to time it just pisses me off and makes me stronger.

Answer 4

I actually had cancer at one time. That was a very strange time. My philosophical views did not change. I think my views helped me keep perspective. I processed it in a logical way. I did what needed to be done. All in all, I think I handled it pretty well.

Answer 5

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Answer 6

I think I would go through the same sort of morning process I'd have gone through if someone in my family had died. Shock and disbelief, followed by anger, followed by bargaining, followed by acceptance.

While I don't think that my basic core life philosophies would change, my behaviors may. I think I'd be more likely to take that trip, or tell that person how I feel. More likely to completely seize the day in an effort to get my house in order before die.

Answer 7

first thought would be: damn it, again?!?! (i had meningitis when i was much younger, caused me to loose all my hearing in my right ear, & possibly the reason why i have so much spinal problems)

but right now, with being as healthy as i am, i would think that i would take on any challenges that come my way, & knowing my strong will to survive & beat the odds, i probably would do as such.
my philosophical views are as such that life is as many say, a riddle. so with set illness, i would look at it with a way to go on living as "normal" as possible.
would my views change? perhaps, i honestly do not know. only way i would know is via expierience...

Answer 8

Isn't illness usually another form of life? What is illness? Bacteria, virus, cancer, etc. Aren't these forms of life? There is no "struggle" to live. Everything transforms and is absorbed by something else. Are we any different because we think about it?

Human arrogance is the biggest disease not the naturally functioning organisms.

That is what I would 'think' about.

Answer 9

wouldn't want to think about it
wouldn't want others to see me that way
wouldn't outright avoid but it would be close
might start living a little healthier life stye
for the most part we'd try and go about life the same as before

Answer 10

I'd be like Queen Latifa in "Last Holiday."

I'd go to some exotic location, then L.L. Cool J would come and tell me I wasn't really going to die. Then he'd take his shirt off.... Why? Because it's LL Cool J, that's why.