I feel like there has to be a penalty for escaping this prison early

[BlazingBob]

Like suicide is too good to be true. That there must be some kind of penalty for exiting this hellish existence early. I'm going to take my chances when the time comes but it's something that scares the shit out of me, however justified and rational my suicide may be.

 

[sserafim]

I heard that committing suicide gives you negative karma as well as karmic debt. Negative karma causes the circumstances of your rebirth to be worse. You'll be reborn into an even worse life. I don't know how true this is though

 

[FuneralCry]

No, I just believe that once we die we lose consciousness and that is it for us. I believe that any of these other theories are invented by humans because after all they have the ability to be conscious and aware unlike animals. I see existence as completely meaningless with no deeper purpose behind it, all existing beings are destined to simply cease existing with this existence permanently disappearing into nothingness no matter what.

 

[Krokodile]

I can't believe that any sort of God or something would be so evil as to further punish those who were already cursed with a life that ends in suicide with even more misery. A thought I find comforting regarding such this is also that if such punishments did exist, much better people than me have also had to deal with them, so in that way it feels fair to me I also have to face it. Why good people and not me?

 

[Hollowman]

I'd like to think if a higher power exists it wouldn't punish us for refusing to needlessly suffer. Who knows though.

 

[BardBarrie]

I know this is very unlikely to be true — and is just an irrational afterlife fantasy of mine — but I sometimes wonder something similar: that we are all fragments of the universe subjectively experiencing itself vicariously through each of us; that being born into a mere human is a form of "grounding" from the infinite universal perspective, and that the trauma of suicide is a failsafe to present frivolous and premeture termination from said grounding experience.


In reality though, it appears to just be a mechanism to ensure survival and procreation.
But I can never understand why a species would want to be conscious anyway, what are we reproducing for; the whole game of Natural Selection. . . why does biology seem to want to survive and evolve?

I'd like to think if a higher power exists it wouldn't punish us for refusing to needlessly suffer. Who knows though.

God would have to beg us for our forgiveness.