Would You Rather...

The other night I was talking with a best friend about some stuff and I kinda ran into a "would you rather" question. I love these, especially when getting the opinions of people I have much respect for, like best friends.

So here was what we were talking about: death. We had lingered onto the specifics of death by terminal illness. Untreatable cancer was the example we were using, so it will work here too.

So, the situation--you have terminal cancer. Would you rather...

...find out you have the terminal cancer?

Or...

...not find out about it since there is nothing they can do for it and you're going to die either way?


Then we took the situation further and were discussing:

Would you rather (assuming you knew you have the terminal cancer)...

...tell people you have the disease and are dying?

Or...

...prefer not to tell people as long as you can (meaning as long as you can go without people finding out about it)?


I can honestly say on this last "would you rather" my friend and I differed. I hadn't even considered the not telling people part, but that's probably because I find myself to be a big talker and one that shares just about everything about myself, especially with people that are close to me.

For me, the dilemma has always been, "If I were to find myself in this situation, HOW would I tell the people I'm closest too?" Face-to-face. A phone call. Could I email some people? And how do you just "throw" that into conversation? "Hey, I needed to call you and I have some bad news." One of those sorta things. Hmmm...

Anyways, that's my "Would you rather's..." for today.