Have you ever though of what would happen if one day, you suddently woke up blind? My friends and i were actually talking about it and i was wondering, what would you do if suddently you woke up being blind and not being able to see anything anymore? My friends told me they'd suicide .. but i couldn't quite give them an answer.

If a person woke up blind, they would at first try to figure out whats going on. Then once they realise they are blind they would panic and call for help, then they would be taken to the hospital wheree the doctor would try and figure how bad it is and how it happaned and if anything can be done to fix it. And after if the person cannot be cured then he/she would have to make some decisions.

K1te

My friends told me they'd suicide .. but i couldn't quite give them an answer.

Suicide? What a waste of a life especially when your that young and there is so much more to live for even though you are blind. Suicide won't even be the last thing on my mind. As gat described, i wouldn't panic and i would figure out wat is going on. The next step would be to see a doctor and try to fix up the problem. If its unreverable then that is wat will accept. I will cry but crying isn't going to cure it but it will just make me feel a bit better. Some decisions to consider will be getting a guide dog, hiring a 12-hour assistent and trying to enjoy life to the fulliest extent.

I think if I woke up blind I would have a hard time knocking around the room looking for the phone to call someone to take me to a doctor...but seriously, there are people who wake up blind either because of anurisms, blood pressure and other things like diabetes etc. Usually you go blind gradually though unless you are like hit on the head or something so you have time to realize you are never going to see the same things again-which would suck. It would probably be way easier to cure sudden blindness and it could also be psychological so I wouldnt commit suicide until I knew for sure that i would never see again and then I would have to decide. You would still have the same people in your life and you could become more tactile and better hearing and stuff so it wouldnt be too bad but I guess it depends on how much support you have from friends and family too.

If I woke up blind one day, I'll probably just deal with it. Of course, I'm going to call 911 and see if the doctor can help. I think suicide just because of blindness is a waste. There are people who suffered more and they still live. Just because I woke up blind, it doesn't mean I'll kill myself. Sure, it sucks not being able to see my family and friends, but at least I'll still have my four other senses. I can still be able to hear and speak, so it won't be that bad. It is said the other senses such as hearing heighten when sight is lost.

K1te

? My friends told me they'd suicide .. but i couldn't quite give them an answer.

LMAO, What if it just something efimeral?, hahaha
But if they arrived to that conclusion, then they might even be able to forget to open their eyes and suicide for nothing...
Not really brilliant

Well, if I ever woke up blind... I think I'd just take it in, like I try to do with anything else that comes my way; now that I think about it, it would totally change my way of "seeing" things, since the direct visuals wouldn't be there, I think I'd appreciate even more everything that's out there, since now it wouldn't be as easy as sitting somewhere nice and enjoying a sunset and I'd have to realy on my memories, people close to me... I think it would be a weird, but possitive change nontheless.

If I woke up blind I wouldn't commit suicide, i would probably go crazy! ^_^

Well...I wouldn't commit suicide. But I would probably wonder what happened, or accept that I just have to live with it. Or if there's a way to bring it back why not try it right? Killing yourself for that thing is a total waste...

I dont what i would, if that would happen, moreover
i dont wish that to happen.

I would eventually adjust. Given a choice between blind and deaf, I'd much rather be blind. At least I'd still be able to listen to music.

Commit suicide? Isn't that kind of drastic? O_o

Me, if I woke up blind, I'd want to know how it happened, and if it can be fixed. If it can, I'm all for it - I'd like to see again. But if it can't be fixed, I'll do my best to live with it. Life doesn't need to end if you lose your sight. :)

You know blindness is worse than death you will now feel as a liability ome blind people do reflect the popular literary image, failing to adjust to vision loss and remaining helpless and miserable. A few are beggars, and some--like a number of sighted people--are fools. But most of the traits possessed by blind characters have no
factual basis. Blind people do not have extraordinary powers, and they fall prey to the same vices that sighted people do. After a period of adjustment lack of sight is not comparable to darkness, and it
is not connected to death. In short, fiction's blind characters have little to do with real blind people. Blind people comprise a random sampling of individuals with all the diversity of the general population.
It is ironic that writers--creative people who pride themselves on their powers of observation and their insight--have embraced such commonly held beliefs about people who are blind. Leonard Kriegel's
remarks about the writer's concept of the cripple are equally true for the writer's concept of the blind person: Writers, by and large, viewthe world from the vantage point of the "normals." Writers like to think of
themselves as rebels, but the rebellions they are interested in usually reinforce society's concepts of what is and what is not desirable. And mostwriters look at the cripple...with the same suspicion and distaste that are
found in other "normals." ...The world of the crippled and disabled is strange and dark, and it is held up to judgment by those who live in fear of it

But you know sometimes you're headed for the big dark, thesolution to the universal puzzle...You'll be seeing in other ways now...Your other senses will become far more acute. You'll be able to heara baby cry through a stone wall. Music, any music, will have so many levelsit'll be like whole buildings, floors or sounds. And your nose...is going to be an entirely new implement. Whatever's in the wind or in the air of a room, you'll know and the others won't

K1te

My friends told me they'd suicide .. but i couldn't quite give them an answer.

No offense to your friends, but don't you think it's kinda idiotic to kill yourself just because you woke up one day and became blind??

Anyway, if I did become blind, then I'd try to figure out what's happening to my eyes, but if it's permanent, then I'll try to live with it. Although I'd rather be mute, at least you could still see and hear things.