if you had the choice to be born would of chosen life?

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As a Christian, my belief is that birth is not our choice, but if it were up to us entirely, i would say no, im not suicidal either, to me that is the most selfish thing anyone could do.

On the other hand though....if there were a finite number of autisitc souls waiting to be born, and my birth were to somehow take that burden from another potential person, i would say yes, i would do it so they wouldnt have to.

Ya can't get rich if you're dead! I need to be alive to do that!

any new members want to answer this.

If you had hypothetically never been born thus never experienced life, I don't see how you would able to know what decision you would make. If I had the choice to be born again (literally), I would.

It's impossible to say, as... it's just impossible.
So, I don't know... I like my life, though.

After my biggest disappointment in mankind and relationships (she was my first gf, we were just about to get married (actually had only few weeks left till the ceremony), she spoke a different language, we already had an appointment with official translators (as it was a must), I already got a job by a company in her home country and was ready to move there any time.. long and boring story anyway, to sum it up, she just dumped me without ever telling me why), I was very close to death. Actually, all my fortune was that I was an active sportsman that time, and my heart could run at high rates without having a heart attack. Normally I would die with a pulse I had (nearly 220 per minute).

Anyhow, this experience changed all my life. Since then I'm happy that I'm alive, and I see every day as a gift. I learned to be happy for the smallest little things of life (like a small flower next to the road). And even if I have a -10 day (like today), I'm still very happy to be alive. Because if I wouldn't be here, maybe no one would notice that little flower next to that road.

And THAT is, what would be really really sad.

Why must some people continue to use "of" as a verb?

Would people choose not to be born knowing full well that once they are gone, there will be another group of people that will take their place as the most down trodden sect. What if they were then given the same choice? What would be the outcome?

It would have been fairer to abort me then let me go through this life. Anyway, I am doing the job that my cowardly mum couldn't do.

My mom wanted to abort me , I think she took the wrong decision later.

shure. even in all of lifes unglory it shure beats beeing dead, i mean yah

I would say a definite YES!

a few years ago I might have said no, but I know I am loved by my (extended) family, and I think discovering I have Aspergers has actually helped me. besides I am now halfway through a uni degree in a time when physics and astronomy is really quite interesting. Who knows, I could follow in Einstein's footsteps and come up with a revolutionary theory in physics (unlikely but not impossible)

As somebody else said, it would depend on the alternatives. I certainly wouldn't want to have been killed, either before or after birth and I do not want to die now. But I've often felt it would have been better if I'd never been conceived in the first place; if I had just never existed. I would not choose to be born as me, the way that I am. Now that I am here though, I do want to make the best of it, so to speak. I want to make my life as full, as interesting and as meaningful as it can be and I want to achieve something in my life.