Discussion I truly hope there is no afterlife

[Smashingairwaves]

There's been a few discussions on what people believe in, in terms of afterlives and religious beliefs, but no discussions on IF people really want to go to an after life.

I really do not want an afterlife. I would say I'm about 99% sure there is nothing after this life, but there's always that thought in the back of my mind; 'what if there was?'

I am sick of the mental suffering I have currently, and that is the reason I want to die. The thought of an afterlife, even an amazing heaven, fills me with fucking dread. I don't want to exist anymore. I don't want the same thoughts plaguing me in another life. I don't want new thoughts plaguing me either.

I really, really just don't want to exist.

Does anyone else hope there is nothing after this life?

 

[LetMeDiePlease]

I hope we get to choose whether we want an afterlife or not, and if we do, we can choose exactly what happens in it. But that is very likely just a fantasy...

 

[Trashcan]

Same. I never understood the appeal of existing forever.

 

[worldexploder]

I don't believe in an afterlife. There is no evidence for it and the sources that claim there to be one are totally unreliable.

 

[Vegrau]

Same. I had enough of this life I dont want another for crying out loud.

 

[TAW122]

I don't believe in an afterlife. There is no evidence for it and the sources that claim there to be one are totally unreliable.

This. I am also an atheist myself and one of my reasons for believing there isn't an afterlife is that there wasn't a "beforelife" which is the millions or billions of years before one is born, before one gains conscious and becomes a sentient being. I was neither happy nor sad and was peaceful before I existed so I'd imagine that death would be the same.

 

[Amira]

There's been a few discussions on what people believe in, in terms of afterlives and religious beliefs, but no discussions on IF people really want to go to an after life.

I really do not want an afterlife. I would say I'm about 99% sure there is nothing after this life, but there's always that thought in the back of my mind; 'what if there was?'

I am sick of the mental suffering I have currently, and that is the reason I want to die. The thought of an afterlife, even an amazing heaven, fills me with fucking dread. I don't want to exist anymore. I don't want the same thoughts plaguing me in another life. I don't want new thoughts plaguing me either.

I really, really just don't want to exist.

Does anyone else hope there is nothing after this life?

I think there is something after death. But i dont think it will be a good one for some of us. So i would rather hope for nothing than something really bad. If it is bad then i would rather have that than life.So to me it doesnt matter as long as i am not alive. I am a christian.But strangely the more i think about suicide the further i am moving from God. I havent prayed in weeks. Really weird to me. I think i have given up on God.

 

[Finallyhere]

I hope we get to choose whether we want an afterlife or not, and if we do, we can choose exactly what happens in it. But that is very likely just a fantasy...

Well this is what I believe.

 

[stargazer]

As an atheist nowadays, I'd like to think we'll all get what we want. It's all in the mind, right? Those "Few seconds" between living and death could actually be "an afterlife." Who knows.
I like it supposedly said Steve Jobs (without putting him or this alleged quote on a pedestal) "it's 50/50" "sometimes I think there is/isnt"
Something if you google it

 

[Retched]

I've read that some people who believe in reincarnation think that if you ctb then you will immediately be reborn and you will suffer again until you learn your lesson. If that is true, I must have ctb in my last life and I'm choosing to not believe in this school of thought because I'm suffering enough this time around. This year has been my own pure hell and I don't want to think about living an afterlife or being reincarnated. I'm tired enough as is.

 

[BjartNO]

I really, really just don't want to exist.

Does anyone else hope there is nothing after this life?

I guess my belief in an afterlife of some sort is so low, or non-existant really, that i'm not very concerned.
It's just a moot point.

 

[BjartNO]

I personally wouldn't actually mind an afterlife, though. I like life, I just don't like mine.
Again however, it's a moot point.

 

[Sinbad]

The afterlife we all share is Nothingness. You experienced it before your were born.

 

[Idorus]

Does anyone else hope there is nothing after this life?

I don't hope / I'm sure about it / no worries.

 

[muretax]

I have my own belief system based off of my own opinions and I'm personally hoping I'm right and that there is an afterlife and possibly reincarnation. Just because this lifetime is shit doesn't mean the next one will be too. But I'll be perfectly fine if it's just an after life. Personally, thinking that it may be nothing and it's just lights out kind of scares me.

 

[Threads]

I'm going to go smoke ganja with God and haunt the living shit out of pro-lifers, when I die.

Shit's gonna be lit, you're all welcome to join me.

 

[Xerxes]

I used to think that the afterlife is like in the movie What Dreams May Come with Robin Williams. He dies, goes into the afterlife and he gets to live inside his paintings. As time went on, I grew older, my view of the afterlife is something I can never be worthy of if such a thing exists. I don't want an afterlife, nor reincarnation, just complete soul annihilation. I want black and I want lights out.

 

[BurningLights]

I can never be worthy of if such a thing exists

This is now my thinking, the torture we experience is in our minds, if we do go to an afterlife, then we will not have to deal with the troubles that our minds suffered from.
I believe I have killed my soul through my actions, so there is nothing but nothing waiting for me.

 

[Tyuiop]

Often i have wished to sleep and never wake up, but just as often i wish to wake up from this nightmare. I remember the few good times and wish to be back there. And i remember taking mdma and that heaven costs 10 euros... when i took drugs, all the suffering was magically gone from my mind, and i believe that heaven would be like that, like you're on drugs all the time.

 

[Aesthler]

The reality is nobody knows cause you'd have to be dead to verify what's actually going to happen. We can theorize till the universe experiences heat death and we'd be no closer to knowing the truth of it. All you can do is accept that it's going to happen eventually, though I think most people are less worried about death naturally rather than that act of dying by your own hand. Is there really a difference or is it just so stigmatized into our brains the mere thought brings us irrational fear? That's also something that's impossible to know. Acceptance is the only real way to feel at peace with it either way though it's not easy to overcome because fear clouds judgement and feeds into itself.

 

[Lifeisatrap]

Same, there's nothing more horrific to me than the thought of 'eternal life'. To exist is to be under some kind of influence. I don't want to be under any influence 'good' or 'bad'. The only thing I'm nostalgic for are the years before I was born. Plus I'm a misanthrope and the thought of having to co exist with people in some form or another for all eternity is the defination of eternal damnation.

 

[Morbid Cam]

I wouldnt mind an afterlife as long as it's nothing like this life, this is some absolute Bull, this life sucks.

 

[transgenderfailure]

I used to think there is no afterlife, that we go back to the statr we were in before we were born. But then I thought to myself, how do I with my current brain know what it was like before I was born? Maybe I lived many existences... But just have no recollection of them. That shit scares me cause what I don't want is to kill myself to then be reborn again, because I just don't want to exist if there's a possibility that I may suffer again the way I am suffering now.

 

[muretax]

I'm going to go smoke ganja with God and haunt the living shit out of pro-lifers, when I die.

Shit's gonna be lit, you're all welcome to join me.

This is by far the best comment I have read yet lmao

 

[ChemicallyCalm]

I actually hope there is an afterlife. I really want to see my family and friends who have passed away.

 

[MisterSadness]

I truly hope so too.
One time of this nightmare is enough.

 

[loz]

Even a utopian heaven would be hell for me. I don't care if everything is perfect; I'll still be miserable.