For everyone interested in sharing, a question for you.?

Openended of course, in the sense of understanding that feelings, preferences, wishes, choices... can change from moment to moment.

So most of us have fairly healthy bodies, and are able to be physically active and move our bodies around in this physically expressing world.

How might you feel, respond and choose to continue to live, or not, physically, if for some reason you lost all physical mobility?
Through a massive stroke, accident, disease, etc that were to cause total paralysis.

This is something Ive thought about off and on through my life. How accustomed we can become to being physically active, mobile, expressive and sensing.
Of course in standing & sitting meditation the body is used much less. Though even then, in standing at least there is an obvious feedback loop which is mutually supportive of consciousness, mind, intend, body, feelings, emotion... And in somewhat different ways in sitting or reclining meditation as well.

Certainly easier to spend more time focusing on being, less on doing, in such a situation. Provided we are somehow still able to have our basic health aspects such as shelter, food, water, excretory and bathing taken care of.
At the same time, there is a reduction of the beneficial aspects of energetic, physical and chemical processes which can best occur through more overt physically expressing movement, expansion and contraction.

Ive known a few people who lost much of their physical function through accidents or illness. One who after years of depression, drug addiction and other frustrated emotions decided to go back to school, with fairly limited use of arms and no use of lower torso and limbs, and obtained a degree in a form of rec rehab. He now works in a hospital directing people in rehab excercises after surgeries and other medical situations.
Others have chosen other ways of dealing, some including departing from this earth likely.

Ultimately, often do not really know what would be done or choice made until the moment for such choices are present.
Ive vacilitated on this myself, from making a pact if i were to become totally paralyzed to find a tall cliff to fly from or other options, as being that this is a world where physical expression and sensation is a core way of experiencing and expressing Ive felt like may as well exist somewhere else then if i am unable to use the basic "tools" and functions of this world. Can always expand my consciousness elsewhere where bodies are not needed, if the body is not more than less functional.
Other times staying around, doing whatever i can until biologically passing seems fine too. But would want to be released if no use is present, and am just taking resources, money, time and energy from this world with no way of expressing and giving back.

Anyway - your feelings, thoughts, ideas...for yourselves?