The Question: You are in an extremely bad accident. You also happen to have an extremely rare blood type. The doctors are doing all they can to repair the damage to your body, and they discover you must have a blood transfusion or their efforts will be in vain. During all of their life-saving measures, you are conscious and responsive, so you’re able to communicate with the hospital staff.

The head of the medical staff appears to give you good news and bad news. The bad news, she tells you, is that the hospital doesn’t have enough of your blood type within the mileage radius that it can be brought in to save you before you bleed to death. The good news, she says, is that there is one person in the hospital who has the same, extremely rare blood type as you, who is willing to donate his blood.

The issue is that the willing donor has an incurable, but NOT deadly disease. She asks you if you want to take your chances without the blood transfusion, or if you want to accept the only blood that will guarantee you a full recovery from your injuries but will also leave you with an incurable, but NOT deadly, disease for the rest of your life.

What do you do?

My 2 Cents: The question will take you longer to read than my answer, because this is “cut and dry” for me.

I take the blood that will save my life, pray on it and leave it all in God’s hands as to the quality of life I’ll have after I’ve recovered.

Incurable diseases today become curable diseases tomorrow.

Besides, I believe (with no disrespect or dismissal of anyone else’s belief system) in divine healing, so I have no worries. That doesn’t mean I may not have pain and discomfort while I’m living and waiting on a cure, but quality of life is relative. If I’m dead, there are no options for living on this side. I have work to do, so I’m not going to choose to allow myself to die if it’s God’s will that I live, even with an incurable disease.

ASIDE: Day 30 – I’m claiming Isaiah 53:5 and 1st Peter 2:24 over situations and circumstances going on in my life right now.

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Take a few moments to check out the tweets from Twitter on this subject:

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brownstocking how painful is the disease? Depends on quality of life after recovery, but I’d prolly take transfusión.

Speaklife2 I would not take the tainted blood and live with a disease. You know that 2 die is gain. I’d donate

EpicView_SP I wanna do what it takes to live if my quality of life will still be decent.

PROTECTED TWEETER Take the blood and live!

rishaholmes …No brainer, take the ‘tainted” blood, what other option do u have….death. I would take the blood!

TankaBar_JasonD I would ride it out and see if I make it on my own with out the transfusion, If you do make it w/ one you still have the illnes

PROTECTED TWEETER Has this happened IRL? Generally it isn’t as simple as that. There are blood substitutes for 24hrs till bloodtype av

PROTECTED TWEETER I would always choose “LIVING”, death is in God’s hands.

Write_Of_Fusion Hmmm, ok. Well like I said b4, just shoot me! Haha! I don’t want some incurable blood to linger around with b4 I die!

mayqueen79 I’d take the blood and the disease. Better to be diseased and alive, than noble and dead. Hope the disease doesn’t make me itch

LadyJay91 I think I would pray on it and take my chances without accepting the blood donated with the incurable disease.

NancyWelker Good one! There’s no way I’d just let myself die and do nothing. I’d take my chances with the blood and the disease.

BLKMGK This is a tough one. It really depends – if the disease would cause me a lot of pain, I would not accept it.

Write_Of_Fusion Oh lawd just shoot me now and get it over with…LOL. I think I would take a chance and wait for the right blood type.

atane I’d take the blood donation. I have a lot to live for!

ankomaguy deadly decision, anyways i will accept the blood maybe i can get medicine to cure the disease one day.

NightShade10 for me, I’d choose life- it’s not up to me in this case to dictate it’s quality.As cures for diseases are made I could be cured

PROTECTED TWEETER this depends upon quality of life with the ailment, if not for my obligation to preserve life I might be torn but I choose life

IamRah It depends on the disease.

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