Dead people of SS, how did you manage to overcome SI?

[Cryptonite]

I wish they could come back for a minute and tell us about it. It's like that damn KFC recipe.

 

[Manaaja]

I wonder about that too. I've tried to ctb so many times with so many different methods in so many places, still failed every time. I know from my own experience that music helps and someone said that turning off lights helped them (making the room pitch black so your body relaxes because it can't see anything, kinda like with birds when you put a blanket on them).

Maybe I should become a necromancer and find out? That reminds me that I need to make a new D3 season character...

 

[FuneralCry]

I think that many of the people who managed to overcome SI were completely desperate to escape their lives and the pain of living got to be unbearable. Of course suicide is very difficult as we are all programmed to survive, the survival instinct can be very frustrating. More than anything I wish that ctb was easier, all that I want is to peacefully pass away in my sleep without having to go through the process of ctb.

 

[FallingGrace]

Generally engaging in risk-taking behaviours can drastically reduce your survival instinct. Do some hard drugs, fuck a couple dozen strangers, go for midnight strolls in dodgy alleyways, pick a couple of bar fights. If your life means sweet fuck all to you, these may be easy things for you to do, and even enjoyable. After all, if you want your life to end, there's no reason to care about messing it up?

 

[outrider567]

Lalari came back, she just posted from the hospital

 

[LookingforAnswers]

What a great post

 

[CrossroadsCurious]

Following...

(Looking forward to a quicky reply from those who previously ctb)

 

[locked*n*loaded]

If someone who did ctb actually came back to tell us ANYTHING, I'd have to pause for a bit and rethink everything I believe about there being nothing after I cash out. Please, please, please.........no one come back. I can't handle that.

 

[Cryptonite]

If someone who did ctb actually came back to tell us ANYTHING, I'd have to pause for a bit and rethink everything I believe about there being nothing after I cash out. Please, please, please.........no one come back. I can't handle that.

Don't worry, there's indeed nothing. It's like sleep, just without dreams and nightmares.

 

[locked*n*loaded]

Don't worry, there's indeed nothing. It's like sleep, just without dreams and nightmares.

And YOU, personally, know this HOW? There used to be an old commercial for Wendy's restaurants with an old woman standing at the counter in a competitor's restaurant asking them, "Where's the beef"? Along the same vein, I ask, "Where's your PROOF"?

 

[Al Cappella]

This is how I look at this SI thing—totally not based on science. And from a moderately risk-averse type. It's like jumping into a freezing lake in January (which I've done—once), you swear a bunch and just go. Because you can talk yourself out of just about anything…

 

[Cryptonite]

And YOU, personally, know this HOW? There used to be an old commercial for Wendy's restaurants with an old woman standing at the counter in a competitor's restaurant asking them, "Where's the beef"? Along the same vein, I ask, "Where's your PROOF"?

I have my sources, you know I mean, experiences of people who've gone through clinical death suggest that...

 

[Le_Dauphin]

I think I'd only be able to do it in a moment of absolute despair. I've had moments like that in my life, but all the ordeal and "ritual" I would have to undergo to be able to CTB with SN would eventually dispel that feeling of despair, and soon the SV would kick in again...

 

[locked*n*loaded]

I have my sources, you know I mean, experiences of people who've gone through clinical death suggest that...

I make a distinction between clinical death and actual death. Anecdotes from clinical death are not proof to me.

 

[lostontheroad]

And YOU, personally, know this HOW? There used to be an old commercial for Wendy's restaurants with an old woman standing at the counter in a competitor's restaurant asking them, "Where's the beef"? Along the same vein, I ask, "Where's your PROOF"?

I mean I'm pretty sure the fact that we were non-existent for billions of years before our birth proves that fact without a shadow of a doubt? lol. The truth is hard for a lot of people to swallow but I'm one of those that finds it very freeing.

 

[locked*n*loaded]

I mean I'm pretty sure the fact that we were non-existent for billions of years before our birth proves that fact without a shadow of a doubt? lol. The truth is hard for a lot of people to swallow but I'm one of those that finds it very freeing.

This is really weird. How can an SS member, with a line through their name, respond to one of my posts? Maybe someone did come back?

 

[hankbank3928]

Lalari came back, she just posted from the hospital

What happened?

 

[Gustav Hartmann]

Thankfully, they don´t comeback! But there are a lot of suicide statistics which could give some hints. If you are male the chances are better, as about 75% of successful suicides were males. Being old seems to be helpful too, because the suicide rate increases with the age. Alcoholism and permanent daylight are also good preconditions, mindful of the fact that Greenland has the highest suicide rate in the world.

 

[Darkover]

a life changing injury or to be in a lot of pain like a chronic illness is good way to overcome survival instinct

 

[jcksonb22]

when you've had over 7 years of pain, 5-15 minutes of pain is no problem at all to ctb

 

[JamieJambo]

I wish they could come back for a minute and tell us about it. It's like that damn KFC recipe.

I reckon the fear of living has to outweigh the fear of dying
I also get the impression that if you have a terminal ilness its a lot easier.

 

[Cryptonite]

a life changing injury or to be in a lot of pain like a chronic illness is good way to overcome survival instinct

Then I'm on the right track, I guess

 

[°Celsuis_Caesar]

Alcoholism and permanent daylight are also good preconditions

What happens at night, Mr. Hartmann?

 

[24601]

For me it was about pushing through no matter what as I had lost my will to live.

 

[Cryptonite]

when you've had over 7 years of pain, 5-15 minutes of pain is no problem at all to ctb

The problem is - it varies. I've recently read a story of someone who effed themselves only after 16 years of constant cruel physical pain. That's crazy, how can someone keep waiting for so long? I've been living in a chronic pain for like a year and I already think I'm overstaying my presence.

 

[Gustav Hartmann]

What happens at night, Mr. Hartmann?

I don´t understand the question.

 

[Marktheghost]

Apparently by not being sure it would work. I probably didn't think I had more than about a 50-50 chance of dying when I killed myself.

Now I've got a more than 99% reliable method, I'm far more hesitant, and I can't work out what's holding me back.

 

[Shu]

Lalari came back, she just posted from the hospital

The post is gone

 

[°Celsuis_Caesar]

I don´t understand the question.

Permanent Daylight is good for counteracting Survival Instinct Is what you say, I just wonder why Survival Instinct will act up during the night instead of Day

 

[Pain In The Ass]

And YOU, personally, know this HOW? There used to be an old commercial for Wendy's restaurants with an old woman standing at the counter in a competitor's restaurant asking them, "Where's the beef"? Along the same vein, I ask, "Where's your PROOF"?

Do you remember BEFORE being conscious, in the year, say, 3457 BC? If you can't, then surely one must assume that's what it's like after your consciousness has gone.

The problem is - it varies. I've recently read a story of someone who effed themselves only after 16 years of constant cruel physical pain. That's crazy, how can someone keep waiting for so long? I've been living in a chronic pain for like a year and I already think I'm overstaying my presence.

2.5 years, and I'm almost done! An old friend has offered me a job cleaning an office with no stairs for one hour a day, which I'll be starting soon. I'm not confident, and if it turns out I can't cope with it, I'm CTBing pretty soon after - after a few months of daily 160mg Oxy, 5mg Xan, Dominos pizza and ice cream, until all the money is gone.

Don't worry, there's indeed nothing. It's like sleep, just without dreams and nightmares.

Exactly - do you remember BEFORE being conscious, in the year, say, 3457 BC? If you can't, then surely one must assume that's what it's like after your consciousness has gone.