Though there are several auxiliary silver bullets of psychological & Platonic bent, of course the most prominent and obvious of all is:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mortality_salience
The only true "survival instinct" is
pain & maim aversion--otherwise known as "common sense"
: "Hmm, this stone-age method sure looks unsatisfying... I wonder what alternatives the state-of-the-art science & technology of this arbitrary era of human civilization has to offer instead..."
If you fear psychological survival instinct, you can come to the realization that this is equivalent to fearing a hologram and/or shadows, --since it is a smoke-and-mirrors trick of perception. If you find yourself fearing a purely psychological or metaphysical survival instinct, you haven't thoroughly removed the sociocultural software that is ingrained in your psyche --ingrained out of pure
happenstance due to the haphazard placement of your world line within whichever random society, culture, era, your life (through no choice of your own) is randomly ingrained in.
There is no "survival instinct," only laziness/hastiness of method orchestration and its unsurprisingly subsequent "buyer's remorse" (of which there are more than a few examples of on this site: drowning, hanging, suffocation instead of asphyxiation, blunt force trauma, etc.)
"A successful suicide demands good organization and a cool head, both of which are
usually incompatible with the suicidal state of mind."
Allow these six concepts to sink good and well into that neo-cortex until self-evident reality dissolves the mirage of projections which they call "survival instinct" :
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Groupthink
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mortality_salience
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Specious_present
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Perspectival_realism
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/World_line
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Growing_block_universe : "For instance, Forrest (2004) argues that although there exists a past, it is lifeless and inactive."
Do you think Philip Nitschke knows anything of a subjective "survival instinct" within himself? Elon Musk? Thomas Metzinger?
*
decomposition is in fact repulsive (one reason I've taken the liberty to spare others from stumbling across my final resting space by travelling deep into my favorite area of remote high-desert), but it is indeed perplexing to see how the subjective state of
oblivion could be an intrinsically negative experience in any way.
*when one seamlessly passes from consciousness/time to unconsciousness/timelessness, they lose nothing other than the singular present they had been restricted to all along, since the very beginning of their homo sapiens experience. At the moment of death, conscious experience as we know it (the specious present) is but a curled-up/wound-up final reference frame.
Given that the sole purpose of evolution/life/negentropy is to occupy as much space & time as possible, at
all costs ...is it
that difficult to conceive of depressive states themselves as being: a last resort from primordial programming to sap the self-aware organism of the positive energy required to extinguish its subjective experience (depression-based psychomotor retardation), and thereby cause it to exist as
living matter for as much temporal distance as possible??? ...just a thought. Remember that natural selection is a blind, unconscious mechanism. All the unthinkable complexity of homo sapiens civilization is nothing more than an overly-exaggerated termite mound, regardless of whether or not this fact registers in any given human mind (most Homo sapiens are unable to move past their dopey astonishment, and reject this due to a misunderstanding of entropy & complexity).
In reality: I won't be "catching" some bus, but more accurately I will in fact
get off the
train (at a subjective
reference frame of choice). The train of which has been in
ceaseless motion & decay along a path to its final destination (death), ever since the very beginning of my
ephemeral &
finite Homo sapiens experience. To a
photon, birth & death occur at the
same moment in time --consider that when contemplating the nature of the specious
present, as it is subjectively experienced by Homo sapiens entities:
It is helpful to think oneself a smoke ring, because a sentient/conscious entity of Homo sapiens origin is thermodynamically equivalent to a smoke ring. In the case of this video, a milk tendril is used instead of a smoke ring :
(
3:15 - 3:39):
In other words, Cosmicism is accurate for all intents and purposes:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cosmicism#Principles
Gnosticism is technically correct after a
thorough removal of all associated religiosity/metaphysics:
Gnosticism (from
Ancient Greek: γνωστικός
gnostikos, "having knowledge", from γνῶσις
gnōsis, knowledge) is a modern name for a variety of ancient religious ideas and systems, originating in Jewish-Christian
milieus in the first and second century AD. These systems believed that the material world is created by an emanation of the highest God, trapping the
divine spark within the human body. This divine spark could be liberated by
gnosis. Some of the core teachings include the following:
- All matter is evil, and the non-material, spirit-realm is good. (time is abrasive, timelessness is friction-less)
- There is an unknowable God, who gave rise to many lesser spirit beings called Aeons. (Inflationary Cosmology)
- One evil, lower spirit being is the creator who made the universe. (omit this point)
- Gnosticism does not deal with 'sin', only ignorance. (raise your consciousness/self-awareness, and especially your Mortality Salience)
- To achieve salvation, one needs to get in touch with secret knowledge. (The works of: David Benatar, Peter Wessel Zapffe, Philip Nitschke, Thomas Metzinger --to name a few)
- time is an insult --at least in this universe.
Lastly, to recap: One can benefit greatly from living and dying by Exit International's mission: "A Peaceful Death is Everybody's Right" --not least of which due to the simple fact that death is the
de facto destination of every individual born in this arbitrary, random universe (of which there may be an infinite number, in which case the one we find ourselves ingrained in may well be the garbage one out of the whole lot; other universes may have physical parameters (constants) which maybe aren't so abrasive and hostile--but we don't live in one of those peachy spaces, obviously). The individual is not figuratively, but
literally a
shadow of time
.
death = real & mandatory
human life = random, artificial, and optional
Admittedly, few depressed minds would actually have the energy required to read through and comprehend most of this ...but this last point here was predicted too, (near the middle of this text)
