If you had to lose a limb, which one would you rather lose, an arm or a leg? Why?

If I have to lose a limb and made to choose between losing an arm or a leg, I'd choose to lose a leg instead of my arm. With the arm comes the hands which I think is very important to do hand dexterity skills like typing, writing, painting, drawing, cooking, sewing, doing household chores, playing badminton and much more are only some of the things that a hand will be able to do. All the ADL's or activities of daily living like brushing my teeth, eating, taking a bath will be greatly affected if I will lose an arm.

I can only imagine the difficulty of having one arm only. It can also affect my job especially that I am a teacher and I teach skills to our Caregiving students, Health Care Services, and Medical Transcription students. On the other hand, losing a leg is not very difficult for me to be able to adjust.

I think I can still manage to walk without one using crutches or get a leg prosthesis so that it would be easier. I think it will not be hard for me then although I have to walk slowly compared to having both normal legs.

I think a leg. My feet don't do a lot, but my hands do. And I couldn't lose an arm without loosing a hand.

I could probably get by with an artificial leg without loosing a whole lot of what I use my legs/feet for. But loosing an arm would also mean my hands and fingers, and I don't know that artificial technology yet has a very complete substitute for a hand. But I'm not a skiier, dancer, or gymnast, or my answer might be different.

A leg. With the progress of science, now we can have prosthetic legs which will function very nearly as good as our leg. But the science has not yet progressed to make prosthetic arms that we can use to do fine motor skills such as drawing, or even typing.

Plus, most of the work I do uses my hands, like typing this answer here. :) I think our world has progressed so much that we rarely use our legs anymore. A lot of the jobs nowadays focus on the use of computers and are done sitting down.

I would rather lose an arm than a leg. It would be harder to learn to walk again than to learn to cope with one arm. I do not think I go go through the years and years of physical therapy that it would take to learn to do that.

And the phantom pains of the leg still being there. I know I would still get them for the arm as well, but the leg is a much larger limb and it would be a much harder thing to cope with.

If it had to be one, I would choose arm. No leg. No arm......ok arm.My left arm, I'm right handed.

I would be devastated to loose mobility of any kind. But I know what it is like to be immobile. I have had knee surgery recently, and I was absolutely insane!

Not being able to walk, or walk well made me a raving crazy woman. Understand that I would be equally lost without an arm, I think that I would be able to adapt to a prosthetic arm, quicker than I would a leg. I think that it would be easy for me to deal with it emotionally, as you can train yourself to be dependent on your other arm, but I can't walk with one leg, not well anyways.

I'll join the choir and say a leg. A few basic reasons: 1. I would be very frustrated without two hands, as I type all day, like cooking, etc.2.

A fake leg could be hidden under pants and a shoe, and it would just be easier to avoid the stares, the questions, and making people uncomfortable. I know others' opinions shouldn't matter, but that kind of thing can wear you down. I think it would also avoid employers (maybe unconsciously) discriminating against you, assuming you're less able (illegal, but hard to prove!).

3. I really enjoy skydiving, and I think I could do it missing one leg, but not one arm, as your legs are mostly used for landing, and you need two hands to steer. A prosthetic leg could fill it and balance a person out during free fall, I think.

I cant really gove you an answer,but what I can give you is a way to a solution, that is you have to find the anglde that you relate to or peaks your interest. A good paper is one that people get drawn into because it reaches them ln some way.As for me WW11 to me, I think of the holocaust and the effect it had on the survivors, their families and those who stood by and did nothing until it was too late.