If The Time Came, Would You Sacrifice Yourself For Another?

Question

Do you value your life above everything else in the world. Would you die so another could live, even though they would eventually forget your sacrifice and act as if you never even existed.

Your Life is the most valuable thing to you and to give it up for another-Would You?

For me it would be NO because No ones life is more inportant than my own

Answer 1

Yes if that person were a lot younger than me. I would reason that I had already had a chance to live a number of years , so why shouldn't I give him or her a chance. Also, for somebody with a lot of responsibilities such as a parent of five minor children, or someone who was contributing to the common good such as a cancer researcher.

Answer 2

I would sacrifice myself for my wife and children. I am unsure about anyone else - I hope that I would. I disagree that the sacrifice would be forgotten - where it has happened, the sacrificed have not been forgotten by those they have saved - for instance, the soldiers who died in WWI & II are remembered annually.

Answer 3

No. At the very basis of human instinct, survival is of the highest importance. Not art, not love, nothing besides survival is at our core; and while some, if not most, people bypass this, I can't say I'd sacrifice my life for another. Pretty much every action a human being makes is in their own interest.

Children would slightly mix things up a bit as they are a form of survival so, perhaps I would for my child. Perhaps.

Answer 4

i'd have to disagree about you theory with your children, even though you don't have any. if i had children, they would be my meaning to live. i would be willing to take a bullet for them. for any little kid for that most. children are our future. who knows, maybe they'll be one out of the 1/4 you're talking about that will make something of themselves.

so obviously my answer is yes, i would sacrifice myself for another.

Answer 5

If you break it down to the primal level then self survival would win out every time but there are exceptions in all things.  If you are a parent then you wouldn't have asked the question in the first place.  I have three children and five grand children and yes those are eight reasons for which I would give my life.  Now about offering my life for a perfect stranger?  I don't know about that scenario.  It would depend on the circumstances.  If it involved a child and it came down to me or the child then I can't honestly answer.  I cannot accuratly predict my response.

Answer 6

For my daughter or husband - yes, without question or thought.  For another child, probably.  For a good friend - not so sure.  For a stranger - I honestly don't know.

And I don't believe for a moment that a sacrifice like that would be forgotten.

After 2000 years we still haven't forgotten the sacrifice Jesus made for us.

If someone were to sacrifice their life for yours, would YOU forget?  I don't think so.

Answer 7

no one's life is more important than your own? so you would watch your fav cousin die because you think that you are better than they are???? i'm sorry but i would give my life up for some one else that i really cared for. like if i were married i would give up my life for my husband. but hopefully that will never be an issue

Answer 8

only two people (my nephew and this one girl). i would more likely sacrifice my life for my beliefs and principles than random people.

like if i was fighting for freedom (for example if i was in a revolution -like slavery or something-) then i wouldnt be sacrificing myself for the people that are slaves, i would be sacrificing myself for the fact that they are are slaves. it wouldnt be for them personally.

Answer 9

if my giving my life would save one of my children or my husband the answer is positively yes; and the truth of the matter is that if my giving my life would save a room full of strangers or another child i really do believe that i would give my life why should many die if the death of one could save them? and why should a child any child have to die if an adult who has had a long life could save their life by giving theirs?

so the answer to your question is yes i would sacrifice myself for another.

Answer 10

I would like to think that I would lay down my life for another.  I think that is the most noble thing a person could do.  But, I suppose no one knows what he would do until the moment arrives.

I've heard several people who have risked their lives to save another admit that it happened so fast they just acted out of instinct without thinking about it.  Most people who had the time to consider whether or not to do the deed would probably opt out reasoning thus:  I know his family would suffer if he dies, but what about my family if I die.  Who will care for them?  Why is his family more deserving than my family?

Soldiers who cover a hand grenade with their body to save their comrades do not have the luxury of contemplation.  They act instinctively because of their training and conditioning.  I'm not saying they are not heroes, they are!

But, to truthfully answer your question, I just do not know and I doubt that anyone else can do it either.  However, I was considering only strangers.  Any parent would give his life in an instant for his child and most of us for our wife.

Answer 11

Sacrifice is not something that you can anticipate. No one knows until they face a crisis situation.

Anticipating risk is more realistic. What risks would you take to save a loved one, a moderate acquaintance, a random stranger, or a detested enemy? Especially when the outcome of your actions is not certain. Your attempts to save someone could fail.

Answer 12

Such sacrificial covenants voiced in love become hatred and bitter gall with time. Therefore with foresight and rational applied thinking it is inadvisable. To sacrifice ones physical life and die, is envisable, to live and endure struggle and torment for another is not.

Answer 13

I would for a loved one or any child, related or not. Not so much because I think there life is more important or valuable, but because I have lived and I could not bare the thought of losing a loved one in the same situation that I was in. As for the child, they have not even begun to live where I have.

Answer 14

yes i would sacrifice for the one i love because, we are humans and not animals. only ANIMALS live for SURVIVAL but humans are gifted by one thing....TALENT and thats what distinguishes us from other animals, LOVE makes us sacrifice ourselves , no matter what we think, we do it cause at the time, we try to protect the ones we love and not just care about our own survival like other animals do.

Answer 15

It depends on who I was dying for. If I was giving up my life for a random stranger, I'd have to say no.

If it were someone I truly cared for, say like my best friends or my boyfriend, or if I had children, I'd say yes. Becuase if I truly cared for them I'd be willing to make that sacrifice.

And everyone's life(s? lives?) are all important to me, but there are those I would count as more improtant than mine.

Answer 16

I wouldn't sacrifice my life for just anyone. I would give my life for my child, but I wouldn't for my husband. I have learned that you really can't trust or depend on anyone else but yourself. I would do anything for my son though. I would give up anything if I knew it would make his life better.

Answer 17

I think saying that your life is more important that anyone else's is very selfish. I do understand people not giving up their life for another, though. Most people wouldn't willingly do that. For me, it would matter who the person was and why I was sacrificing myself.

Answer 18

If the one I was sacrificing myself for was a person I love and if the death would not be very painful...then yes, I would.  However, I think that if the sacrifice was for a person I did not love and if I knew the death was going to be painful, then I don't think I would have it in me and neither would anyone else.

Answer 19

You are a very selfish person with a bad thinking in life.  You want to live alone, the only one and let all the rest die for you.  Do you know.....U R Hilter, the Great in History.

Do you know who are the martyr in HISTORY?  They are the one who is willing to fight for the country and die in order to save others.  You are just the Negative person and hope you will turn Positive asap.  (Check my answer to question: Negative & Positive.......in Yahoo answer)

Answer 20

No one would easily accept for anything to give up to others including their wealth and happiness, however they may be close and friendly! To sacrifice my own life for the most loved one, say for my son or daughter or even to my parents or to my beloved friend or a relative could only be an INSTANT DECISION upon a situation where I would be raised to the level of not minding about my life momentarily and my will and the determination to save them dominates me TOTALLY and so I would do that blindly!

Answer 21

no need to ask, i sacifice myself many times oredi and in the end i got full of shxT from the pple I saved......and pple around me see i am a freak moron, anyway better than a mad dog's barking. becos of one person, I lost my entire future life!

from now onwards, i dun give a d**n about u all even death is coming for u...i shut myself off. let u all face the world of all things happen around you and let u all XP for yourself.

Answer 22

I would give my life for another only if that one person was more capable of changing the world than I am, and if they would change the world for the good.

But there is no way for me to know how they would act on this choice, so I would not gve up my life for anyone.  

But I might give up my life for another if my chances of survival were far smaller than their's.

My life is important to me, though I do not fear death, I would not want to die before I have impacted the world in some way.

Answer 23

I would sacrifice my life for someone that I loved. I think that it would be easier to sacrifice myself than to live with the idea that I could have saved someone and I didn't. I mean, who am I to say that my life has more value than someone else's especially when one remembers that all people are created equal.Unless of course you factor in evolution and survival of the fittest  but that is something in itself.

Answer 24

I know you have no children, because if you did, you would not even raise this subject.

Other than that, you are the center of the known universe, and life revolves/evolves around you. It is your experience that counts. In a way you are god, be responsible.

I agree if you were to sacrifice yourself it would be a rather fruitless exercise.

No ones life is more important than your own, to think otherwise is delusional. (Al Quaeda)

Answer 25

you may not realize it when the time came, you would sacrifice yourself even without you realized it. To sacrifice has a very general context, not only the extreme one i.e. die for some one else.

adding to those above, there is wise saying if you ever heard ; if one sacrifices himself, even give his own life to save another's, but if he does it without love, it is empty. We know about faith, wisdom and love, but the greatest of all is love.

Answer 26

I believe I would. I also believe that the life of another is never more important than mine, but mine is also never more important than anothers. In fact, everyone is just as worthy to live on this earth, nobody is more important than another.

I've thought of this many of times, and example:  The baby I lost- I would have traded places so that he/she could have experienced 25 years of life on earth like myself (that is years more than many get to experience).

If my sister, who is also my best friend, was ever in any situation where her life was in danger- I would take her place without a flinch.

My existence is more important to me than anything, and part of my existence is those who mean the most to me. Existence is not defined as being life. Life is defined by existence.

Answer 27

It would depend on the circumstances I think. I would have to know more. As for the fact you claim that no one's life is more important than yours I would remind you that millions of people gave up their lives in two World Wars so you can sit on your duff right now and say that. They didn't question the fact that you would never remember them or think nothing of

their sacrifice or not even know they existed. They did it for

their country and its people. That is called sacrifice.

Answer 28

If you have loved, you would never ask this question.

How many times have we prayed to this invisible god for mercy, intercession, intervention, requests to heal our loved ones who have been sick and injured?

Did we not mention how willing we were to take away their suffering?.  Have you ever tended you sick child?  It would have been a litany of volunteering your own life, in exchange for the release of his or her pain and suffering......

If you have loved, you would never ask the question.

On the other hand, for most other reasons, NOBODY will sacrifice themselves, except for our soldiers. That is why we must never forget....never forget

Answer 29

at this moment I would say I would never risk my life for anothers.

But, knowing myself I would. If a train was coming down a track and my grankids were in danger I wouldln't think one way or another- I would just throw myself at them to get them out of the way of the train, if I died I would die without regret.

Answer 30

Basically, if I thought that person was a complete waste of space who attracted every bad situation because of poor life choices, then NO, I wouldn't.  

If they were someone that I thought valued life and seized more opportunities than me, then YES, because logically they would have more to benefit.  

Plus it depends on the sacrifice because I'm a huge wuss.  If it's burning to death or something horrible like that, then h**l no for both!  I'd die from my choking whiny sobs before the fire even got near me.

Answer 31

there is the old saying you don't give to receive and this would be an extreme form of that. I myself would more than likely sacrifice myself but it would be more likely because i reacted first without thinking. Each situation also has many variables to consider so it would be difficult to say that i would in every situation. i don't think i would consider whose life is more important as much as i would react to the moral right and wrong and with compassion and heart.