Discussion Being reborn into better circumstances or ceasing your existence?

[porfin1234]

Cease my existence.

 

[memataporfavor]

cease my existence. I wish I was never born.

 

[Freedom Believer]

An afterlife would be fine with me. Maybe a second chance wouldn't be bad, but I'd feel I would fuck it up. If not that, just endless sleep would be not bad either.

 

[R_N]

Cease to exist. Even if I would live in better circumstances, life could become hell again so I wouldn't risk it.

 

[Shinbu]

I don't want to be any lifeform ever again. Being anything alive is suffering because of the consciousness, and you have to deal with a difficult society. I'm going to pick cease existence. You can't even die easily, and painlessly because of some beliefs that are against the right to die.

 

[TAW122]

For me, I'd rather cease to exist in the first place because that means if I were never 'born' nor came into this world, I couldn't suffer at all. With that said, I'd rather CTB than to live a long life with suffering and all the ills that I face currently (and those to come in the future). This is because even if things do improve, they will once again go to shit in the future, it's a never ending cycle until death.

By CTB'ing I would prevent future suffering even if I miss out on potential pleasures. I don't see anything worthwhile in my late life to be worth all the suffering and even then, it is fleeting as life gets unbearable again. As someone who has lived over 29 years of his life on this planet, this world, I know enough about life to come to the conclusion. I have also pondered this for more than a decade.

 

[Daktalsnakal]

I completely agree, I feel like if I just had another shot at life I wouldn't feel this way. I hold on to the belief firmly that I will get another chance after ctb wether I'm the same person or even some insect. Just having a truly clean slate is what I think we all desire.

 

[TheEndof]

It wasn't circumstances that brought me here but largely my own choices. I could have done better, but I didn't. Unless I can be reborn with some sort of knowledge to prevent myself from making the same or similar mistakes, I have no interest in being reborn.

 

[Throwmyselfaway]

I do believe in reincarnation. In fact I believe I've had like 6 lives before this one. My 2nd was my best life kinda. Whatever is beyond this life feels like something better than this one.

 

[Oscar.in.the.closet]

The idea of having another chance scares me, i have learned to be so afraid of life and i am just tired of making decisions or starting friendships. Being in new circumstances would terrify me because what if even when everything is laid out for me i still manage to mess it up? I would be too afraid to try, giving up before your hopes are raised feels like the only option for me. Although i can see why others would welcome a new life.

It wasn't circumstances that brought me here but largely my own choices. I could have done better, but I didn't. Unless I can be reborn with some sort of knowledge to prevent myself from making the same or similar mistakes, I have no interest in being reborn.

I feel exactly the same way, this really makes alot of sense

 

[All Things Must Pass]

The former. All day, every day

From the moment I understood the weakness of my flesh, it disgusted me. I craved the strength and certainty of steel. I aspired to the purity of the Blessed Machine. Your kind cling to your flesh, as if it will not decay and fail you. One day the crude biomass that you call a temple will wither, and you will beg my kind to save you. But I am already saved, for the Machine is immortal.

(no, i have never played warhammer 40k)

 

[FarAcrossTheWater]

I want this cruel twisted game we call life to end forever. Life is a cruel thing to do to an animal.

 

[FuneralCry]

I would choose to cease to exist. Non existence is an ideal state for me, nothing is objectively better. Even if there is better circumstances, I just find the nature of existence to be tedious, how humans do the same tasks on a loop for decades and then they just die. It is meaningless. I find simply being conscious uncomfortable. I want to fall into a eternal sleep.

 

[ReadyForIt]

Reborn into better circumstances,
fuckin yeah!!! That's my dream outcome of CTB. Realistically, I'll probably end up going to Heaven but given the choice to do a "Round 2" of life with a guarantee that it'll be way better than the first time around would be incredible. An encouraging thought that I like to ponder sometimes is that maybe the super happy and successful people that we encounter in life actually CTB in their previous life. Then Round 2 for them just ends up being amazing.