how do you view your death

  • punishment

    Votes: 3 4.1%
  • reward

    Votes: 18 24.7%
  • both

    Votes: 13 17.8%
  • neither

    Votes: 39 53.4%

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    73
TheHolySword

TheHolySword

empty heart
Nov 22, 2024
341
This may have already been discussed before but I'm curious what you all think. Do you think of death as retribution for your life and your wrongdoings? Is it a reward for your suffering? Or is it both a relief for your misery and punishment for the misery you caused? Or do you think it's something else entirely?

I kind of see it as both, myself. I think that I deserve to die for what I have done to others in order to get to this place and for what I have done to myself. But the peace and relief it will bring would be so rewarding after all the pain and darkness.
 
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Alexei_Kirillov

Alexei_Kirillov

Waiting for my next window of opportunity
Mar 9, 2024
1,027
I voted neither. It's simply relief.
 
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AnderDethsky

AnderDethsky

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Oct 19, 2024
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If, for example, when using my SN, I just fall asleep in my bed without vomiting and with little discomfort, and this will be the highest blessing for me in my life.

Also, the opposite is true: If my stomach fails me, and in the last seconds I have severe heartburn and ulcers, then I definitely will consider such an end a punishment.

Perhaps the final version for me here can only be chosen by universal chaos.
 
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brokeandbroken

Enlightened
Apr 18, 2023
1,047
Depends. If I die from disease and/or my life never improves no opportunities no anything. Then it probably amounts to a punishment of some variety in a rorschach ink blot hit the pinata choose the reason type of way. If I die from natural causes and my life does improve then it probably isn't anything maybe approaching reward.

If I CTB it's hard to say elements of both. Though more than anything it simply is an escape.
 
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verdedefome

verdedefome

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Oct 9, 2024
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I don't really consider it anything. I mean, it's just the end, it's over, poof.
 
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Warlord's Pulse

Warlord's Pulse

Time to end this endless war
May 27, 2024
202
Reward for doing something good, or punishment for doing something bad? Well, neither

It's not a good nor bad thing, I just don't care
 
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LostLily

LostLily

Why do I exist?
Nov 18, 2024
185
I consider it as my way to finally take control of my life and destiny. Because if I can't control life , i can at least control how I die
 
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ScaredOfMachines

ScaredOfMachines

I am who I am
Nov 8, 2024
78
I guess I consider it to be both a reward and a punishment. On one hand it's a reward because I'm finally having an end put to my misery, but on another it's a punishment because I was never able to see the joy and happiness other people live for, and now I never will.
 
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Forever Sleep

Earned it we have...
May 4, 2022
9,821
Depends on an individuals view of death. A serial killer sentenced to death who wants to live would see it as a punishment I assume.

Maybe 'reward' is too kinder word. Death is simply a consequence of being alive. For some, it will be seen as a negative consequence- The Peter Pan types for example, who want to stay young and live forever. For others, it will be a welcome release to get them out of pain.

I can't exactly see suicide as my 'reward' exactly. I'm still going to have to likely go through something very frightening and unpleasant to 'achieve' an early death. It's not like these methods are something we'd likely do for leisure- unless we enjoy masochism I suppose. Alternatively though, I suppose I do feel like it would be a 'treat' to myself to spare myself old age, a pennyless retirement and likely illness alone. In that sense, it's a reward. It's also a reward for having lived with ideation for so long (34 years to varying intensities) but, not acting on it to spare others grief.

It's like- death might be a reward or a release at least for those who want out but- suicide isn't. Suicide can probably be seen as the epitome of a painful life.
 
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pthnrdnojvsc

pthnrdnojvsc

Extreme Pain is much worse than people know
Aug 12, 2019
2,737
to me my Death is a reward. i couldn't care less what another human does . we all will die anyway.

i mean Death which is non-existence forever. i don't mean "dying" when you are still alive and "dying" that could be painful and i want to avoid pain . pain is not a reward to me . only a living brain can produce pain. i mean 1 micro-second after my brain dies that's the best reward i could get eternal non-existence: all my problems solved instantly and forever, no pain no problems no suffering no bad memories ever and i get out of this horrible life

I can't separate the pleasurable garbage addictions from the worst torture imaginable. these are both part of life . the intensity and constant long duration of extreme suffering and extreme pain far outweighs any pleasurable garbage bs addiction. what is worth 1 hour of the worst constant worst pain ? what is worth 6 hours of the worst pain, a week, a year? nothing

imo there is pain so bad a few seconds of it make everything else meaningless .

I don't think i nor any human is immune from many of the many extremely horrible things that can happen.

I don't see any objective reason to work 15 hours per day a job and chores to do lists only to decay get old and exist under threat of extreme torture

To me there is no reason why i have to live or have to want to live in the first place. nothing matters except avoiding unbearable pain and extreme suffering.

nothing matters to me only avoiding pain, suffering problems and my suicide asap . nothing matters. what will matter in 200 years, what that we do today will matter in 10,000 years. what will matter in a trilion years ? nothing.

This is all only my opinion. warning below :i will talk about tortures that i think can happen .

a relatively minor thing : i cut my finger . i can't believe the pain all the world goes away for a few seconds of the searing pain, the addictions don't matter then. how can pain be this bad ? how can something so horrible as pain exist. why does this exist , evolution programmed pain into animals for example pain of starvation to make the animal seek food only to replicate it's genes. it's a horrific accident of chaos and chemistry a nightmare beyond belief , a million trillion animals tortured most dying by being eaten alive by other animals parasites bacteria : where is the empathy for these and the billion of humans DNA based life has tortured from the "life is beautiful" crowd?

This is what life is to me : imagine you get a brain stroke at age 60 . then you get put into a nursing home . then they forget or neglect to turn you in bed so you develop incurable incurable incurable skin sores all over your skin. so you are in constant unbearable pain. then of course it's very difficult to sleep with the constant unbearable pain. so you are in unbearable pain that you can't move away from can't escape a second. plus not being able to sleep is a unimaginable nightmare by itself. so you manage to yell out "please kill me please " . Nurse "we can do that it;s a crime for one thing life is beautiful and sacred be grateful you are alive ". so then this torture continues for 30 years from age 60 to 90 until finally the body dies. every second for 30 years of the most unbearable pain.

Think this is implausible? I worked in a nursing home . here a Doctor describes working in a nursing home and says this is likely :



to me non-existence is the best thing by a trillion times because it's the opposite of the evil imposition life , evil pain ,evil suffering. non-existence forever is the only guarantee of never suffering and is the only absolute perfection. if one is locked in a torture dungeon and you find a way to escape and you escape out of the dungeon into peace and freedom how is that new state of freedom not a reward ?
 
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ijustwishtodie

ijustwishtodie

death will be my ultimate bliss
Oct 29, 2023
5,168
Assuming that you're talking about death itself rather than the process and the pain required to get there (i.e. dying), I see death as a reward in my case. Objectively speaking, going by what the evidence so far suggests what death actually is (which is permanent non existence), death isn't on the spectrum of good or bad at all.

Pro lifers insinuate that death is bad without providing a justification for it when I believe that death can't be bad for the one who dies as they are no longer sentient thus they don't desire anything in life such as any goals, inspirations or a positive welfare state. I've also seen people say that death is neutral but, for that to be the case, a positive state must be better than death since, after all, a positive number like 5 is greater than a neutral number like 0. However, a positive event isn't greater than death for the individual as, once again, the individual who dies has no need for the positive event. This is why I believe that death isn't on the spectrum of good or bad at all. It's like how dividing by 0 gets you out of the number spectrum.

You're free to interpret this however you want (although I still can't comprehend those who say that this is bad for the individual who dies) but, personally, I see death as perfection and the best reward that I could ever get. In comparison to life, death seems to be much more beautiful and perfect to me as I wouldn't have to suffer or think or feel or experience etc. I consider these things as a burden rather than as a blessing. I like death so much to where I want an earlier death over a later death. Unfortunately the pathway to get there is perhaps one of the worst punishment that could ever occur to me
 
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FuneralCry

FuneralCry

Just wanting some peace
Sep 24, 2020
38,868
For me personally ceasing to exist is all that could ever be positive, all I hope and wish for is to never suffer in this cruel, futile existence ever again, I'd always prefer to not exist as I see existence itself as the ultimate problem, to me human existence just feels like the most terrible mistake causing endless amounts of suffering.

I'd never wish to be conscious in this existence capable of suffering to unlimited amounts destined to die in agony from old age rather I just want non-existence instead, non-existence is all I see as desirable, I'll always find it a burden having to exist at all. To me existence is an abomination that just causes suffering and cruelty all for the sake of it and problems there was never a need for at all, if I'm dead then none of this can concern me and I cannot suffer in any way, I only hope to be permanently unconscious which is why I suffer so much from how I cannot just have the option to painlessly die in peace.
 
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Gstreater

Gstreater

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Aug 10, 2024
70
For me I'll always see it as a reward for myself, living has been painful, has never felt worth it. It's a personal hell I've felt like I'm trapped in. Death will be a reprieve from that is my hope.
 
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L'absent

L'absent

À ma manière 🪦
Aug 18, 2024
710
Death is an endless wrong. It cannot be experienced and therefore you cannot even feel a modicum of satisfaction from the cessation of suffering. So you can only experience suffering, or you don't exist. This is a nightmare!
 
SilentSadness

SilentSadness

The rain pours eternally.
Feb 28, 2023
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Death is positive for the person who dies, tragic for the people still alive who can no longer reap the benefits of having this person around. It is not possible for death to be a punishment since dead people can't experience punishment.
 
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FoxInWaiting

FoxInWaiting

I want out!
May 27, 2023
48
Neither, just an ending.

A tree that fell in the forest no one was ever around to hear.
 
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outrider567

Visionary
Apr 5, 2022
2,590
I don't consider it anything, its just the end of everything
 
Lost Magic

Lost Magic

Illuminated
May 5, 2020
3,149
It's neither because everybody dies. But some of us would rather it be sooner than later.
 
dust-in-the-wind

dust-in-the-wind

Animal Lover
Aug 24, 2024
246
Death is a reward. If we were to live for an eternity all would go insane with no escape.
 
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melonpan

Member
Sep 9, 2024
17
For me, it's both
A reward as being an end and a punishment for the people I've hurt
 
TragedyBornCrimson

TragedyBornCrimson

I accept my eternal punishment
Oct 19, 2023
245
I'll know when I'm on the other side
 
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sximii

Autistic bpd bitch </3
Dec 4, 2024
32
I said neither because… honestly I don't even know what I consider it. A relief I suppose?
 
shrizoid

shrizoid

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Nov 18, 2024
69
Assuming that I'm the one who is causing it and wether it's overly painful or not, it would be a reward or a punishment.

Like if i end up brutally dying in a painful matter then it would feel like a punishment, if it was the opposite, i would consider it to be an award
 

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