Would you risk your life for a friend? A serious approach

I would define a friend as an individual I can trust my back with. First, must I always risk my life? If supposed friend is engaged in drug dealing, common sense dictates that I should persuade him to give it up, not risk my life. If supposed friend is embezzling funds, I wouldn't risk my career life to cover up for him. I would dissuade him. Second, do I only have to risk my life for a friend? If you see an injured stranger on a battlefield, will you think twice about nursing him to health? At least I wouldn't. I don't need a reason to help; I help. Third, are there alternatives aside from risking my life? Assuming you can't swim and your friend is drowning in a lake, jumping into said lake is suicidal and won't help your friend one bit. Best to call or search for help yes?

Long story short, yes I would risk my life but only if that is the only choice that best helps my friend or the person I'm helping.

It depends on the circumstances and who the friend/person was. If my best friend was trapped in a burning building I'd run in and try to get him, though if the building was entirely engulfed in flames already I probably wouldn't bother since I'd probably get killed as well. Like I said it's strictly circumstantial.

When I was younger I went extremely far out of my way to help someone survive Tuberculosis and the Flu at the same time, however I don't think I was honestly risking my own life going around asking for donations for the medical fees. Honestly if given the opportunity for this person I most certainly would have.

Sadly, she died in the end, the two disease were too much to go through.

Simple, I would take a risk to save someone. Risk isn't the same thing as trading your life for someone. To stand idle and not do anything would bother me for the rest of my days.

But I'm also not running to the doctors to donate my second kidney, or other spare organs, but I would for someone that I valued as much as myself.

It depends on how strong the friendship is, in my opinion. Me personally, yes. I have a few VERY close friends that have done things for me numerous times without thanx needed. It takes a good heart and humble mind to draw together the strength to step up and defend a friend, whether its on the basketball court, or in the military fighting in a war. :)

I would... I do not value my life that much, you know. Besides, from what I've learnt with mangas, friends are valuable and you must help them at all times.

Yes, but situational it also depends whom is endangered (ass-hole friend or nice friend.)

While there is a risk that I'd just freeze and do nothing of use (I mean, I've never been in such a situation, so I don't know), but as I see it, I'd risk my life even to save a stranger. That does not mean I will readily sacrifice my life for theirs though.

Maybe 1 or 2 friends I would risk my life for. Also, only if it was for something out of their control. If they did something stupid to get themselves in that mess I'd rather not get involved.

This is one of those things where I'd have to decide case by case. But I'll list the things I would consider:

What is that friend's relative value?
What is the worst outcome that can occur from helping?
What is the best case?
What is the chance that a negative event will happen?
Etc.

Although, if the possible danger was sporadic, then I'd just follow my gut at the time.

I would only risk my life for a good friend.

I would, in a situation where you need to act quickly, for some reason my body reacts instinctively before I even begin to think about it lol.

If I were to give it more thought, I'd risk my life for a dear friend of mine or a family member, if there was any way of ACTUALLY saving them, not just 'let's see if this works'.

For a friend? Yes.

When I consider someone as a 'friend', I mean it. They are my friends. Not just acquaintances. They have to be someone significant in my life for me to be able to consider them as a friend.

I don't have best friends, but what you guys might call best friends, for me, it's a friend.

No, not under any circumstances, simply because I admit being an egocentric and self-centered person.

The only person I can imagine myself risking or sacrificing my life for is if I had a child with a girl I'm trying to foster a relationship with. The simple reason being, I've already succeeded in my life's goal of having a family, and every priority after that point is keeping the family together.

So, no, absolutely no one except my own child, for whom I would endure any pain in their place, because life is not much of a sacrifice compared to one's capacity for pain. Put me in torture for months if it spares my son or daughter their life, because death is too small a thing to imagine as the "greatest" sacrifice.

To me, it all comes down to who the friend really is to me. It doesn't matter who you are; surely, there are friends who helped you greatly in your time of need, no? And it is for those friends and those friends only that I would gladly risk my life for.

Don't get me wrong, if I could, I'd help strangers as best I can. It's just that, where I live (and I'm pretty sure it happens everywhere else), it's very, very (emphasis on very!) risky to simply help someone with car troubles or someone who's lost their way, simply because most of them are conmen.

So, for my friends, I'd give my life. For strangers, maybe not.

My life for my friends/family anyday, no questions asked, they're much better people than I am. Why? Don't really class myself with any value, I'd be worth more in that situation and I'd actually be useful, it'd end my own suffering as well, so it'd be like two birds, one stone!

Strangers, dunno. Whatever my body reacts to.

If you meaning putting my physical self in danger in order to save another. Then yes I would risk my life. But as for sacrificing my life for them, we would have to be really good friends.

Yes, on the condition that I'm remembered and the person I die for earns it by living a good life afterwards.

I'd have to say, it really would depend on the situation. I'd break an arm or a leg for a close friend. If it was a life or death situation, I'd like to say i would risk my life for him or her, but i won't know unless i'm actually put in that position.

In movies and books, you see companions would risk their arse for a friend. Reality speaking, that doesn't happen in real life. One would say they would rescue their love ones, and when that actually happen, they would run away and abandon them. However you see it, humans are coward unless their feelings are so strong, strong enough to attempt risk their life for a friend.

I'm sorry, but unless you are trained to risk your life, like a fireman or a soldier. These things don't happen, and it rarely happens anyway. Every once in the while on news, we got a hero who saved the baby and all he gets is 15 minute of fame.

To answer to your question, I would but It's very unlikely.