We're born, and have no control over that.
From birth, societies and cultures immediately set about conditioning us into ascribing objective meaning to everything, with almost all of it defined for us. And for those who realize this and grow skeptical of, or even outright reject, their conditioning the alternative encourages us to generate our own meaning in an otherwise meaningless world. Though we have more autonomy in this latter view it still insists upon living itself as a prerequisite.
Yet any of us who decide that our meaning is tied to life as ultimately futile and seeking to terminate it as fulfillment of that meaning are typically roundly rejected out of the gate regardless of our arguments. And our perspectives dismissed, chocked up to the ramblings of mentally unwell minds simply because we consider death a viable option for self-actualizing our understanding of existence.
My question is, do those of us who hold suicide as a legitimate and viable means of exercising autonomy and fulfilling their own sense of meaning possess a deeper awareness.
In other words, because we tend to be more self aware, think deeply and consider things critically, could we be examples of humans who have realized their purpose is to die?
When everything in existence points to a sense of failure, inadequacy, unfufillment...are we not just responding to nature in the desire to end? Are some of us simply aware that we're being called back to the dust and simply engage with that realization instead of distracting ourselves, deluding ourselves or waiting for much more painful, avoidable and humiliating ways to go, lauded by the masses but ultimately needlessly cruel and trying?
From birth, societies and cultures immediately set about conditioning us into ascribing objective meaning to everything, with almost all of it defined for us. And for those who realize this and grow skeptical of, or even outright reject, their conditioning the alternative encourages us to generate our own meaning in an otherwise meaningless world. Though we have more autonomy in this latter view it still insists upon living itself as a prerequisite.
Yet any of us who decide that our meaning is tied to life as ultimately futile and seeking to terminate it as fulfillment of that meaning are typically roundly rejected out of the gate regardless of our arguments. And our perspectives dismissed, chocked up to the ramblings of mentally unwell minds simply because we consider death a viable option for self-actualizing our understanding of existence.
My question is, do those of us who hold suicide as a legitimate and viable means of exercising autonomy and fulfilling their own sense of meaning possess a deeper awareness.
In other words, because we tend to be more self aware, think deeply and consider things critically, could we be examples of humans who have realized their purpose is to die?
When everything in existence points to a sense of failure, inadequacy, unfufillment...are we not just responding to nature in the desire to end? Are some of us simply aware that we're being called back to the dust and simply engage with that realization instead of distracting ourselves, deluding ourselves or waiting for much more painful, avoidable and humiliating ways to go, lauded by the masses but ultimately needlessly cruel and trying?
