Die for...

For my family I would give my life. For the person outside of my family, the person I care about the most in this world, I'd give my life for you love.
Like Te Dum I am religious, so if it's my time to go I'd want to go out saving someone I love. I know the people I'd die for would do the same for me.

"Greater love has no one than this: to lay down one's life for one's friends."

 

If the choice wasn't something that just happened instinctively, (car swerves and I have the time to instinctively draw back and save myself, or dive and push someone out of the way) I'm not sure. Two examples of this in my case...When my little brothers got hit my a car, it was too late to do anything but instinctively I ran out into the middle of the street without thinking, worried for their safety and wanting to protect.

Howeverrr, I was in a car with my friend and my mom's boyfriend and he majorly stalled the car in the middle of the street when a truck was coming, and had to maneuver backwards with no engine power, and well...I jumped out of the car without a second thought. << Everyone was okay, but my instinct was to save myself and hope they got out fine.

I think I'd be more likely to instinctively die for someone I had maternal instincts for. Like a child. Or someone completely defenseless. Or. Yeah. And, of course, someone I loved dearly.

Howeverrrr, if I had time to think about it, I would die for someone. Unless I felt I was way more important than them, or that my dying would wreak more havoc than their death, I would die for someone. Anyone. Whether it's someone I love or not. It's still selfish of me, though. It'd be more because I couldn't live my life knowing I let someone die when I could have stopped it, or saved them. I would probably commit suicide over such guilt, so what would be the point in not saving them?

Other than a person, I would die fighting for something I believed in. I'd die protecting a cause. I'm not afraid of dying/laying my life down. But I'm well aware of the fact that it's irreversible, so my instincts would reflect that, mostly. In other words, I'm not afraid of dying, but I'm afraid of experiencing the loss of death ...again. So I'd be more likely to die than let someone else die, if I had time to think about it. ​

 

I think there are two people or so besides my family I would die for. My reasoning; I love them, and to me, their life is worth more than mine.

 

Dying for someone I love would just seem like the natural thing to do, yes I would. If it was some complete stranger then I would probably give my life to save them as well, but if I'm honest, if I was put in a horrible situation where I had to chose someone to die out of a stranger and someone I loved then I would have to go for the later.

The people that I would never hesitate on at all are probably the same as most people's, my family (I don't know what I'd do without my sister or either of my parents) and my closest friends. Although, afterwards I would worry (before I died of course xD) that they would live with the guilt all through their lives and that would just be a horrible thought.

 

You guys don't know what you're talking about in my opinion.

Asking if you'd risk your own life to save someone else, and saying yes? Have any of you ever been in a situation like that before? If not, then you wouldn't know. "Oh yeah, I would so freaking waste my ass and take a bullet for my dog".

Im not going to answer with a yes or a no. If such a time ever comes in my life where I must save someone or not, I will most likely not come back here and post wether I did save he/she or not.

Edit - And sorry guys. Of course, I know that some of you are brave, and would not waste a minute to save someone you love. <3

 

It is a hard choice even not being in the situation. Some poeple already said they don't know what they would do... This is natural. Fear the Death is something natural for any being.
But having time to choose, some other people said they would die for someone they really, but really care about. Isn't someone to them, it is she or he that he/she loves. They would have fear, but they would die.

Saying again, it is really tough, hard and complicade. But when comes to someone you really love, the situation is hard, but the answer is easy...

 

Well I have so I kind of do know what I am talking about. And I wouldn't die for my dog. Despite loving him I would not.

Trust me in situations where you will be "dying for someone" you feel it. There is no logic just feeling and that is how you will make that choice.

 

I agree with your first statement. I believe that 90% of the people here and 90% of the people who say they would, would freeze in a time where it was actually necessary to save someone by giving your life. However, I know my personality and I'm very protective and I tend to act selflessly, so I believe that I am part of that 10%. I may be wrong though.

 

i most likely wouldn't sacrifice myself for any political beliefs, i honestly don't feel strongly about those to die for them. i don't know what is worth dying for to be honest. i'd like to say i would sacrifice myself for people i care about, but i have a reputation for being a little gutless at times, so who knows what i would do if the time actually came.

 

Honeslty,I would only ever die for two people,those being my younger brother and my best friend.
I couldnt live without either of them.
If I had a choice between the rest of my family,or my other friends etc...
No.
I love them,but,though it would hurt me,I could live without them.

/negativeness

 

I don't know if this would've escalated into a life or death situation, but when I was younger (anywhere between 11-14), my younger sisters and I witnessed a pretty brutal assault. My first instinct was to call the police, but for some reason, my sisters decided to get closer to the assailants. In stead of doing what I originally was gonna do, I went after them, and practically dragged them away from there, and told them to run, making sure they were far ahead of me and that the guys weren't following us, before running away myself.

Fortunately for us, the guys either never saw us, or just weren't bothered to do anything to us, but I didn't know that when the situation started. Yeah, I was nearly wetting myself in fear, but that didn't stop me from making sure that my sisters would survive, even if it meant that I potentially wouldn't had.

So I'm pretty confident that when I say that I'd die for someone, I mean it.

(I did call the police after we were farther away, and the guy they assaulted did survive, but they never caught the assailants, unfortunately.)

 

Wow, well, you had my age (13) when this happened, so I think I know what are you talking about. I can imagine at least.

I think I understand what you're talking too. There are family and there are friends. Most important? The ones you love, being or not being family.

I'm only sure that would die for three persons, Lexibrag, Evil Twin and Trulyyy (funny nicknames, aren't they?), they are my bests friends, since I met them, when I was 3.

I really care about others peoples too, but those three are the ones I would give my life. If I lose others, I'll feel really sad too, of course. So I kinda feel the same way.

 

In a sense I suppose you are right, however if I know myself then I also know that I would give my life. To be honest, basically everyone says they will, to disagree seems like a heartless thing and yet is not giving your life so you can die a hero slightly selfish, if you get my drift. Then again that goes to the point of there not being a completely selfless good deed so that point is redundant I suppose.

You are right, I don't know, but I am gonig to make the assumption to not only make myself feel better but so that I believe that I am a good person.

 

I thought like, dying for someone would be considered a heroic act, like keeping someone from dying by taking a bullet for someone.

 

I find that, in many cases, death is an act of cowardice. It's an escape from life. Many would rather die knowing their every word will be the last word; they'll never have another chance to misstep or misspeak, to hurt someone or be hurt by them, to lose or break trust, to sully their good name or that of anyone else. Life is hard. It's a complex dance and everyone fumbles in learning it. I have no respect for those who, discouraged by failure, stop trying altogether. Nor do I believe anyone truly invested in life would demand someone else give theirs up, or that anyone should offer as much. What people want is to dance together.

Except in cases where the fear of dying is challenged (and, even then, only in specific contexts), I think it's meaningless to die. Death is not an escape. Death is not a pledge of love or a vow of loyalty. Death is not salvation. Die to step aside for someone new, not to get away from someone known. Die to sign your name on your life, not to end it before its story has been finished. Die because you're ready, not because you're willing. Let death be what it's meant to be: an end come in due course.

 

I'm not sure who I'd die for, if anyone. I like to tell myself that I'm not particularly clingy to life, that my self-exteem is low enough to deem someone else's life above my own, and that death doesn't scare me because I won't even know it happened afterwards. I may be lying to myself about any and all of those though. I honestly don't know. I won't make the half-assed assumption that I know myself like the back of my hand; I've surprised myself too often already.

Everyone probably thinks they are though.

 

If It was someone I couldn't live without,I'd die for them.
Because well,I'd rather not live than live without them.
I'm not sure if this is counted as suicide ,though,Is it?

 

True, but I'm the type of person who "acts" on things like that, for example, I am 1/2 an inch from grabbing them if they walk along an edge and other small things. But; I might freeze if something occured.

 

Implying that death is voluntary. I know what you mean, you may want to reword that.

 

I most certainly am not. I would not give my life for a cause, another person or humanity itself. As far as I am concerned, for me, death is the cessation of all existence. Once I cannot observe something, it may as well not exist. In death, I am unable to observe anything, so everything may as well not exist. Therefore I see no point in sacrificing myself for something else. The only viable reason would be if I felt that life without whatever was at stake would not be worth living. Even then, that sort of sacrifice would not be a sacrifice at all; it would just be a suicide.