Home / Thoughts / Blackmailing surgeons
Blackmailing surgeons
Written by Sean on Tuesday, October 23, 2007
I’ve been wondering what would happen if I were to tell a surgeon “If you don’t make me paralysed, I will kill myself“. Blatant blackmail, of course, which is bound to lead nowhere but to being committed. But it is nonetheless an interesting thought.
I could tell them that it doesn’t matter how long they keep me locked up or under surveillance, the moment they’d let me out, I’d find a way to kill myself. Because quite frankly, living this live isn’t worth it, despite all the good in it, despite the good people in it. Oh, I’m not suicidal just now, don’t fret. But analysing my life to date, and the future prospects, the equation isn’t particularly strong on the “live” side. But that’s not the point of this post.
This post is a bit about the Hippocratic Oath, in some ways and how it relates to BIID. Surgeons abide by the “first do no harm” rule, and I’ve been suggesting that they are in fact causing harm through inaction. Hence the idea that by giving them a very clear picture of the chain of events, of the consequences of not acting, they might rethink this.
It wouldn’t work, obviously.
But perhaps it might make them think a bit? I don’t know. I’m unlikely to ever know in fact. I just would like to find a way to have surgeons more open to helping transabled people.
This entry appears in Sean's Thoughts, Thoughts. You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0 feed.
You may have your say, or trackback from your own site.
13 Comments
im right there with you sean
and i see your point too Rorschach
but what are we supposed to do?
this gives me a headache just trying to conceive all the relevent information
I don’t know what to do, but threatening suicide is silly. If a thief walks into a bank with a gun pointed at his own head and demands all of the money in their vault at the threat of suicide I really doubt that he is going to walk out satisfied.
Been there, it does not help, but I am out of ideas that could help…
im new here but has anyone successfully succeeded in making the paralysis they desire? I think about it a lot…
i am wondering weather this would work in fact so much getting close to do it.
im sick of beig told there are choices in life when deep down there is only illusion of choice
for eg you go car shopping because you desperatly need/want a car and the only two on the lot are pink or brown now what would you choose???
i would go the brown (not that there is anyhing wrong with pink) and then after a few weeks or if someone says “why brown” and i say “i dont really like the brown i would of prefered blue”
they are going to say “but you chose it”
In conclusion are we ever happy
lol
not the point i was going for but it seems to fit
im just sick and tired of being me and the “CHOICES” i have
Yeah… in my own blog, i made a comment recently about the concept of ‘choices’ as our society presents them. This is what i said there:
“Some of these things are choices, while most are not - and even among those that are my choice, most are a false choice: the option to suffer in silence, hiding behind a mask, living a lie, because the truth is not socially acceptable, is NOT a real viable choice.”
8 On 21 November, 2007, Sean said:
Kyla, what’s your blog???
Why would anyone care if we kill ourselves? They probably would think you better off dead.
As for my blog, i keep it restricted to only allow close friends to read; someday i may create a public one, but i’m not ready for that attention yet.
…and as for killing ourselves, that just ‘proves’ that we were mentally ill and needed to be drugged and confined, not offered physical treatment.
Dude - First of all, learn to edit yourself. Secondly, what’s your agenda? Are you here to troll?
I have known a couple of people who have gotten their desired disability. I have yet to hear from anyone who says it was a mistake. After about a year post-injury, they drift away from the boards. I contacted one guy who said he just didn’t see the need anymore, that he was happy in a way that he never had been before, and didn’t need the support of others who were facing the same problems he had faced.
Sensing your aggravation at this board/site, why do you even come back?
13 On 2 December, 2007, Sean said:
Dude is indeed a troll, and I apologise for not having removed his post before. If you read Jen and Brice’s post and don’t get it, one comment was removed. This user used to go by the name “Steellegs” or some such, and has been warned many times before. He was banned under “Steellegs” and has now reappeared to pick a fight under this different alias.
Post your comments
© transabled.org - 1994-2008 - All Rights Reserved.
1 On 23 October, 2007, Rorschach said:
I know many girls who in high school used this tactic to try and get their boyfriends to stay with them. It ultimately doesn’t work. I mean you are pulling the trigger, not the surgeon/boyfriend.
I think might work out better if more TA simply became surgeons.