Not that too many ppl are going to really respond to one of my posts, since only a couple of you do...but anyway, I am not deaf, I hear perfectly fine. I think it is disturbing that someone would want to make themselves deaf willingly. I have a couple of friends who are deaf, or hard of hearing. I personally want to know sign language for my daughter but I also do think it is a beautiful way to communicate...weird maybe, but I think it is. Hell I "talk with my hands" normally LOL I appreciate everyday the things that most hearing ppl take for granted, the sound of a child laughing, and the bird's songs, the sounds of water gently moving down a stream, and the list goes on. I personally would never want to miss out on those things and wished all ppl never had to. But in life things happen and ppl do miss out on a lot of thigns...but also those same ppl could experience things that the rest of us never would be able to. There are pros and cons to everything in life...good and bad will always go together. I try to look to the good in everything personally. Everyone who is deaf, to me has a beautiful way to speak...it is different to me, that is why I think it is beautiful, I love things unique and different.
But to others, to hear one sound would be beautiful to them. So why wish we are something we are not? To me, everyone whould cherish the good in whatever they have in their life!