Alternate Outcomes

Alternate out comes:

1. Mary lives but is in a vegetative state and eventually donates her organs to many people.
2. Mary lives but is in a coma for years.
3. Mary lives but is brain damaged and has regressed to early childhood.
4. Mary lives but is a quadriplegic for life.
5. Mary lives but is a paraplegic for life.
6. Mary lives but is burned and completely disfigured.
7. Mary lives but has so many internal injuries that she needs a transplant of some kind.
8. Mary lives but has so many injuries that she looses her legs or arms.
9. Mary lives but has so many internal injuries that she needs tubes and bags attached to her for the rest of her life.
10. Mary lives but has such brain damage that she relives the crash over and over and needs psycho therapy for the rest of her life and is unable to make love attachments to those she loved before the crash.
11. Mary lives but has so many internal injuries that she can’t have children.
12. Mary lives but doesn’t remember anything at all before the crash.
13. Mary lives but is in such physical pain from injuries that she doesn’t want to be a burden to her family and disappears into the world.
14. Mary manages to miss the truck and turns around to help the man when his truck crashes.
    

Numbers 2 through 12 could continue to “but transforms her life into something so beautiful she inspires the entire world to be better people." Would this make those outcomes easier to accept?

I only wish number 1 could have happened. Number 13 doesn’t sound like Mary but with mental stress, you never know.

Number 14 sounds like Mary, doesn't it? That's exactly what she would do.

Actually you never know what’s going to happen one second from now.

Writing these hasn’t really helped me because although I would never want Mary to suffer, I surely don’t want her gone. So, what to do?

I see it all perfectly; there are two possible situations - one can either do this or that. My honest opinion and my friendly advice is this: do it or do not do it - you will regret both. **Soren Kierkegaard**