Discussion Are there any material objects that would make life worth living?

[Anxieyote]

Imagine one day you are walking down the street, and you run into Jeff Bezos. He says, "I've heard you are feeling suicidal, and that's messed up. Is there anything I could buy for you to make you feel better?"

On the condition that you wouldn't be able to sell whatever he bought for you, is there any material object you would value enough that it would make your life worth living just by owning it?

 

[suicidesheep31]

A house. Just to feel safe and know that whatever happens, I will have a house to stay.

 

[Death is beautiful]

it may sound corny, but I would really ask him to buy me N, I don't need anything else

 

[LoneMisery]

I would like to be given an opportunity to learn a skill and to have a really secured job. I feel my financial problems are the causes of my urges to ctb.
A nice secured job is something that somebody could offer that would greatly change my feelings of myself for the better

 

[Noctis]

Not a material possession, but something that could be purchased...a new life. Help me fake my death, gender reassignment surgery, and enough money to start a new life with a completely clean slate.

 

[Nightmare Painting]

No amount of material wealth would make life worth living for me but enough money might keep me here a bit longer.

If you don't have your health, a good family, live in isolation and loneliness then no amount of materialism will make up for those things.

 

[FuneralCry]

No, there is nothing that would ever make me want to live, no matter what I owned, I would still feel empty. There is nothing that would take away the feelings of hopelessness and despair. I do not have any interest in material items, for me I just want to be gone from this world.

 

[myopybyproxy]

Not a material possession, but something that could be purchased...a new life. Help me fake my death, gender reassignment surgery, and enough money to start a new life with a completely clean slate.

why the surgery? you are transgender?

 

[Snake of Eden]

There is nothing physical that will make my life worth living. Absolutely nothing and it is not a case of sour grapes fyi

 

[Insomniac]

Imagine one day you are walking down the street, and you run into Jeff Bezos. He says, "I've heard you are feeling suicidal, and that's messed up. Is there anything I could buy for you to make you feel better?"

On the condition that you wouldn't be able to sell whatever he bought for you, is there any material object you would value enough that it would make your life worth living just by owning it?

180 of those.

 

[markimobzzdeasui]

There is no material object that would make me live this life but I would ask for a fully functional gun. Not to immediately ctb, but because I think that if I would have a gun with me, maybe I will be completely fearless and give this shitty horrible existence one last shot and search for a job maybe. I know it won't work but sometimes the fear that comes with ctb really grips me and makes me crave for illusions of hope.

 

[WhiteRabbit]

Material objects can't solve my problems. We may live in a material world, but I'm not a material girl.

 

[Noctis]

why the surgery? you are transgender?

Sorta? I wish I had been born a girl, but I'm way too much of a coward to say that out loud.

If I can start a new life, then I never have to have that conversation with people I know. I can just stay reclused for a few years and emerge as an unrecognizable person and I never have to talk about my past. And if I get asked about growing up, I'll just lie.

 

[meetapple]

If I got a house stocked with everything I need and I wouldn't have to leave the house maybe I wouldn't have to CTB.

 

[FuCrpsPain]

Does something bought have to be gaining something or can it be losing something? I'd want my legs amputated. I need new legs. If I had working legs that weren't painful, I could deal with the rest.

 

[Nightmare Painting]

If I got a house stocked with everything I need and I wouldn't have to leave the house maybe I wouldn't have to CTB.

The NEET dream.

All jokes aside, with a decade of cumulative NEETdom and a lifetime of agoraphobia under my belt I wouldn't recommend it. Longterm isolation will mess you up pretty bad.

 

[gottago222]

JET PACKS, NO DOUBT ABOUT IT

 

[flowerpetalashtray]

No and fuck jeff bezos

 

[Cameron Diazepam]

Also a no. The hedonic treadmill (return to baseline happiness) is especially common with materialism. I've bought a lot of shit trying to fill the void and you end up chasing something more or something else (and having more to unload when you ctb). Those collection-based hobby forums are a good example.

 

[TheHatedOne]

Nope, material things never really fullfilled me in the first place.

 

[JinZhin]

Upon seeing this topic I immediately thought: books! And books and some comics AND EVEN MORE BOOKS. There is nothing non-essential that I would choose over books I'm interested in.

But: I already own guite a bit of them, not a lot bc I'm still relatively young and can surround myself with even more if I eg. go to the library... and I'm still generally miserable even while reading them/thinking about them/solving problems etc. Because they help me forget. They make me happy for a while. I removed l still love some things.

The thing about this, and why this idea is flawed is that, even though they are material, technically, what they provide is not material at all, rather books and reading are more of a solace and escape from material world, which is why I'm obsessed with abstraction and fantasies and fiction on rivers of words flooding pieces of paper stacked together and so on...

my final answer is N

 

[Quax]

Money can't buy you love, happiness and health… the things that really count…. So….no, Mr. Bezos can't make me stay….

 

[Sans]

Money can't buy companionship.

Well, technically you can buy a mail order bride or some shit, but I wouldn't want someone to "love" me just because I had money.

 

[Dr Iron Arc]

A hyper advanced sex robot that can shapeshift into any form with the capacity to feel true love for me and easily pass as human too. It would have to be able to fill the void of loneliness I feel in every possible sense. Maybe I would also have to have my memory erased to forget she's a robot. At least with this literal object, I wouldn't have to subject a real woman to being with me. Everyone wins!

 

[anywherebuthere]

A hitman to take me out when I least expect it . Cause of death murder instead of suicide . Slightly easier on the family .