Discussion Do you think believing in the afterlife makes it easier to ctb?

[charcoalcat]

Sometimes I think our SI activates because in our mind we believe there is nothing after death, and that sends panic signals into our mind and body during an attempt. If one truly believes in the afterlife, he/she will be less inhibited to go through with the motions. Just a thought.

 

[MercenariesofMidgar]

Nah TBH...

1) Reincarnation "What if my life is worse after I reincarnate?!?!?!?!?! I don't want to suffer anymore!!!" though is a plus I guess otherwise.......
2)A forever afterlife defeats partly the reason why I want to ctb: I'm running away. This is a flight response.
3) Nothingness "Oh jeez what if i just stick it out?? Eternal death sounds scary!!!"

Though TBH I feel like after an immeasurable amount of time we will be in another body. Just makes sense to me.

 

[Eudaimonic]

I think it depends on the person tbh. Some people (e.g., me) are comforted by the notion that eternal oblivion may be what awaits us (or more precisely, what does not), whereas others find comfort in the idea of an afterlife or reincarnation.

 

[Forever Sleep]

I think it makes it harder. I actually envy atheists what I imagine is a more peaceful certainty that it will all be over after this. The possibility of an afterlife contains good or bad scenarios.

Regardless, if a God is responsible for this world and presumably the next. Given all that we see here, I can well imagine them being vindictive, unfair, uncompromising, narcissistic, psychopathic. I really don't fancy being at their mercy- again! I truly hope there's nothing to be honest. The other scenarios are way too risky to my mind to hope exist.

 

[Praestat_Mori]

No.

If I already contemplate CTB in this life what should bet better in an afterlife? It's just hope that things will be better in the future. Unfortunately "hope" makes everything so much more difficult and the slightest piece of hope increases SI by several potentials.

There's neither proof nor disproof of what comes after death but most likely there's nothing - we will be recycled as everything has been recycled over an over again on earth.

Only if "consciousness" like we have it is sth that is separate from the rest - but there's no proof for that and nobody who really died ever returned and could report to us what there actually is on the "other side". We simply will never know! Imo itäs just a game that our brain playes with us bc from a biological POV it's not logical to kys and destroy your species bc then you can't reproduce anymore.

 

[blacksand]

I think eternal nothing is fascinating, terrifying and yet so comforting. More so than any afterlife. I like to drive an hour out of town and look up at the stars (in a bortle one location) and think of all those millenia and centuries that have passed where I was nonexistent to those stars except as atoms scattered around the cosmos. My return to that state gives me an almost religious level of ecstasy when I contemplate it.

 

[Richard Langford]

No

 

[DivineSpark]

I have read tons of near death experiences, I think there is something but I dont really care. Must be better life than on this shit hole planet.

 

[Johnzaga23]

believing in afterlife definitely makes it harder. the only thing i want is to cease from existance. i dont want to exist in any other way or form with the memory of what ive done.

 

[Despair 7]

Nothingness is so peaceful

 

[onmywaytothebusstop]

I'm not sure. I think it can depend on the person and their thought paterns.

I don't really believe in the afterlife and knowing that there will be nothing but emptyness is very comforting to me. If i'd believe in the afterlife i'd feel like i wouldn't be able to escape this never ending loop of misery as it would just be more of the same.

 

[SVEN]

I guess that would depend on what type of afterlife was envisaged.

 

[Languish]

It depends what you seek through death. Some wish to die in order to be reincarnated and live a simpler life as a frog, a cat, a turtle, or just a human born into kinder circumstances.

Some desire heaven, for bliss, or to be reuinited with loved ones. Some feel they are owed hell, guilt makes them crave the pain they feel they deserve for who they chose to be in life.

Some long for the void, or limbo. There are those who wish to be a ghost, and observe. Or float off into space. There are those who want to be a mass of energy, drifting unconsciously at peace. There are those who seek pure non-existence - to be scrubbed from the annals of history and simply to be as if they never were.

Others just want an escape. An escape from pain. An escape from emptiness. An escape from a life in which they feel socially inept and unqualified for love, whether friendly, familiar, or romantic. As long as they get away from this, it doesn't matter where they end up.

Then we have those who their religious text paints suicide to be a sin, and they fear hell, thus stay alive.

Belief can make suicide more difficult, or it can make it easier. It can serve as a comfort in an end, a loved one waiting on the other side, for instance.. or it can serve as a deterrent. Whether hell, or the void, people fear both pain and emptiness.

 

[FuneralCry]

Not for me as I personally see non-existence as something positive, I believe death to be nothing more than an eternal dreamless sleep which is all I hope for, I'd be so relieved to never suffer in this futile, torturous existence ever again and finally be able to be at peace, to me existence itself is the true problem. I see existence as the most cruel unnecessary burden that just causes suffering all for the sake of it and problems there were never a need for with no limit as to how much agony one can feel, all I hope for is to permanently cease existing where finally all is forgotten about for me, I'd always prefer to not exist than suffer all for the sake of it no matter what.

 

[WatchmeBurn]

Most religions don't think very positively of suicide so I imagine it makes it harder. As scary as eternal nothingness might be, eternal damnation is worse.

 

[divinemistress36]

Yes, the idea of going home gives me peace