(Hypothetical) What do you think is the worst kind of hell after death?

[ringo99]

Now I'm not one for believing in little devils with pitchforks tormenting damned souls in a Dante-esque hellscape. But if I had to envision true hell it would be being forced to watch and experience the grief of the people who genuinely cared about me for eternity. Honestly I don't think I could stand to see the reactions of my mother, nephew and niece to seeing me dead. i literally feel the beginnings of an anxiety attack whenever I think about it. They actually give a damn about me and I know that my passing would affect them greatly.

Please note that I'm not posting this to trigger people and I apologize if I've upset anyone with this question. It's just a thought I had and wished to share it.

 

[MusicEnjoyer:D]

I read somewhere about the posibility of being stuck with the pain you feel at the moment of death for eternity. Only the void and the pain :S

In a selfish way, I would like to be able to see people react to my death, so I knew they would miss me.

 

[qwert3948]

Honestly any outcome where you somehow still exists, feels or sees something seems hellish. Specially for us from SS, but I don't think anyone at all wants to live for ever. Even if you end up in some sort of "heaven" where "everything is great", unless your feelings are false and you are cut from liberty, your own mind will still be hell for yourself

 

[winamp]

I would be pretty confused and scared and intrigued if it were like one of Hieronymus Bosch's paintings

my fear is that it's just a black void

I would like to watch and check on people from my past afterwords and see what they're doing with their lives as some form of entertainment and also I would like to have the ability to interfere like The Sims because I also fear that the afterlife would be boring if there is anything after death

all of the mystery and unknown-ness surrounding the afterlife intrigues and scares me but this is a great question

 

[nozomu]

To me, hell is the life I'm living where I must watch everyone treat me with insignificance and the only power I actually sit with is the power to stop watching it

 

[leavingsoon99]

Either coming back to this or existing in some world similar to this with a species similar to humans. Earth IS hell, and humans are its imps.

 

[outrider567]

Since I have nightmares most nights, true hell would be for me to actually live thru all those nightmares

 

[macrocosm]

My hell would be forced to only eat vegan food

 

[SpiderLink]

anything worse than what I'm feeling

 

[EternalDaydreaming]

Now I'm not one for believing in little devils with pitchforks tormenting damned souls in a Dante-esque hellscape. But if I had to envision true hell it would be being forced to watch and experience the grief of the people who genuinely cared about me for eternity. Honestly I don't think I could stand to see the reactions of my mother, nephew and niece to seeing me dead. i literally feel the beginnings of an anxiety attack whenever I think about it. They actually give a damn about me and I know that my passing would affect them greatly.

Please note that I'm not posting this to trigger people and I apologize if I've upset anyone with this question. It's just a thought I had and wished to share it.

A darkness where you are alone, conscious and can remember everything from this world with nothing to do forever. It truly scares me if this is the after life.

 

[To-Equestria]

The worst kind of hell I can think of for someone who committed suicide is being forced to relive their life over and over and over again in a kind of Groundhog Day time-loop where it resets every time you kill yourself. But maybe I'm thinking of a purgatory thing since I also think that kind of hell would be escapable if you make it to the end of a loop without killing yourself.

I think of it being the worst hell for suicide because none of this is fucking easy and forcing someone to go through it over and over again and to fight their strongest instincts just to escape it, only to go through it all over again is beyond inhumane to me.

 

[lagoona-a-go-go]

Besides the idea of being conscious in a black void for eternity, I'd say the whole being turned into a tree and pecked by harpies forever as you bleed and experience pain ala Dante's Inferno would also suck, to say the least.

 

[brokeandbroken]

Generally hell is thought to be just cast out of the presence of God and forced to spend eternity alone by yourself. Most of the depictions are widely accepted to be allegories for how one would feel.

 

[Forever Sleep]

Yeah- that would be upsetting. Hopefully, there's nothing but eternal dreamless sleep. For me- re-living my years 10-18 under the same circumstances would be hellish.

 

[InSearchOfLess]

Being brought back!

 

[kunikuzushi]

A darkness where you are alone, conscious and can remember everything from this world with nothing to do forever. It truly scares me if this is the after life.

This is truly the scariest thing I can imagine.

 

[dondiasco]

every culture has different definitions of hell and some where hell isn't even present, just reincarnation. hinduism only, i believe. buddhists have very few portrayals of hell but it exists for them.
me personally, i believe anything we can perceive stops once we lose our senses and our mind. i believe once we die there is nothing for us to perceive anymore. there is no explanation to what that looks like because it's impossible to explain. to me that is hell, to others it's simply a void, and to others that's bliss. i believe it's hell because it's unfathomable and humans through si or living through life by avoiding pain, ultimately the goal is to avoid the suffering of what you don't know/can't control, which is what pain is. pain is the reaction/sensation of foreign negative experiences.
it terrifies me but comforts me.

 

[piercedheart]

Having to redo the same life you so despise, but this time knowing how awful it will be ahead of time and not being able to CTB out of this one.

 

[charlotte_]

I think the original definition? of hell is scary enough - to experience all the pain you've endured in your life and to live forever tortured in guilt for the bad acts you've committed. I also find what EternalDaydreaming said to be a very painful outcome.

 

[Homo erectus]

Over half of world population live within a 4km radius circle in Asia. If hell is real (in the real world), it is probably there somewhere. In fact, the concept of hell is popular in the region through Buddhism and other Indian religions. It is probably a projection of reality into religious thinking.

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[PinkMeow]

Either coming back to this or existing in some world similar to this with a species similar to humans. Earth IS hell, and humans are its imps.

If any of the afterlife theories are true i think this is the best one. You will reincarnate and forget everything about the old you, all the pain and memories. You just start fresh and there is a possibility to live a happy life
Being stuck as a ghost in this word or some kind of eternal darkness where you still feel the same way but there is no possibility to escape

 

[SVEN]

Finding I just live this life all over again … for eternity.

 

[Pidgeons_Sparrows]

being conscious

 

[ForgottenTomb]

I really, really wish there would not be an afterlife, regardless of how it will look like. I like to see death as a relief from consciousness, that the experience of being dead is the same as the time before you were born. Personally to me, ctb means choosing to cease awareness of anything.

 

[FuneralCry]

Anything that resembles existence, this world truly is hell to me, it's undeniable that existence is something so incredibly repulsive and feeling trapped in this world is such a horrible, undeserved punishment. This world is certainly the true hell because of the amount of suffering that has been experienced by sentient beings all throughout history, it's impossible to comprehend how much endless agony there is in existing.

This world could never be a desirable place to exist in, and to have to stay here and suffer forever would be the worst kind of hell, especially if one was able to feel all the pain that exists here. To be conscious and aware is a curse but I very strongly believe we just cease existing after this with everything finally forgotten about, to die is the end to this nightmare.

 

[nureinFuchs]

Re-living my whole life without being able to change it

 

[telro]

Any sort of eternal consciousness with no way out. Even the thought of that has spiralled me into some of my worst panic attacks

 

[Duality]

Other than physical pain, I think Supernatural got it right with the endless queue in line! That would drive anyone nuts!

 

[Gonnerr]

Coming back in the same body over and over again , this is a real possibilty but probably will never know.

 

[thgilrats]

The feeling of being trapped. I am that type of person, for whom even the heaven (if that one did exist ofc) sounds like some kind of hell. Because it's eternal, you can't escape it. There's no exit. No other place. Any type of cage, no matter how big or small would genuinely freak me out.

Even now, while being alive, I am so damn careful when thinking about the Earth from the space perspective (and i am an astrophysics student, that's my fucking job), because it would remind me of not being able to escape this world, this place and increase my suicidal thoughts tremendously.

So yeah. Being trapped. And maybe without the two of my friends. These two.