If Suffering Animals are put to Sleep, Then Why can’t We?!

[purplemoon]

They don't care if you're able bodied. They'll still come at you if you're unable to work. Not just the disabled, but the elderly and jailed.

yes, and a few years ago when I was trying to figure out if I could get even partial disability to help me survive, I was told by 3 different disability attorneys that the majority of their clients are homeless
and have been waiting for around a year or sometimes two years because they said the federal government
automatically denies every single claim for disability regardless, even though on their website they state they'll review it according to fair criteria, then they just automatically deny all claims, Unless the person is literally blind or paralyzed.

So even though we all are forced to pay money out of our paychecks for our entire life...when they are supposed to hold up their end of the bargain, they try to avoid it.
Real nice, huh? Hypocrites.

I ask myself this all the time. What right does anyone else have to force me to live against my will? All people seem to care about is 'saving' you in the moment but are nowhere to be found afterwards

I think they Like to feel either heroic, or important somehow. Initially it is actually nice, but it seems that the majority of the time, they won't stick around Or tell people to just go "get counseling".

It's like why should I pay someone to pretend to care who Was told by other humans that they're "experts" now when they're not? Seriously?

I have the same university education they have, and I've probably read just as many if not more books and researched PTSD extensively, for example, than they have. There was one so-called PhD clinical psychologist Who didn't even know how the neurological system connects into the brain in people with PTSD, and it was really disappointing. At least she admitted it, seemed embarrassed, and then we went on chatting away like two college students and I ended up explaining to her how the amygdala circuitry has measurable physiological changes in part with cortisol interacting, the Changes in networked in dendritic connections in the corpus callosum , etc. worked. Shouldn't it have been the other way around?!

People get a title / certificate and then most people seem to assume that they're the "experts"... But are just human beings, and they certainly don't know everything. Also, if they learn from their professors that a certain theory of treatment is favored, does that guarantee that it will work for you? Or the next person? They act like there's only one treatment for every person out there, and that's just not how it works. People have different personalities, nervous systems, experiences, support or the lack there of, with so many other variables. They can't just use one formula of "treatment" for everyone.

personally, it got really irritating after multiple times that either I knew more than they did, or one psychiatrist that threw an obnoxious temper tantrum after getting my IQ score results that were apparently higher than his. It was really ridiculous and was the last straw.

It helped me fully realize that just because someone has a title and a degree, does not make them an expert over you and your conditions.

You know what you need better than anyone else.

It's similar to the assumptions / people had around a century ago who thought the cure to illness was putting leeches on people to make them bleed it out. At the time they really thought that was "medical" care, or "treatment" by "doctors".

For huge amounts of people like me, the current so-called treatment doesn't do anything, doesn't even begin to 'cure' or put a dent in it.

 

[HereToday]

I think they Like to feel either heroic, or important somehow. Initially it is actually nice, but it seems that the majority of the time, they won't stick around Or tell people to just go "get counseling".

It's like why should I pay someone to pretend to care who Was told by other humans that they're "experts" now when they're not? Seriously?

I have the same university education they have, and I've probably read just as many if not more books and researched PTSD extensively, for example, than they have. There was one so-called PhD clinical psychologist Who didn't even know how the neurological system connects into the brain in people with PTSD, and it was really disappointing. At least she admitted it, seemed embarrassed, and then we went on chatting away like two college students and I ended up explaining to her how the amygdala circuitry has measurable physiological changes in part with cortisol interacting, the Changes in networked in dendritic connections in the corpus callosum , etc. worked. Shouldn't it have been the other way around?!

People get a title / certificate and then most people seem to assume that they're the "experts"... But are just human beings, and they certainly don't know everything. Also, if they learn from their professors that a certain theory of treatment is favored, does that guarantee that it will work for you? Or the next person? They act like there's only one treatment for every person out there, and that's just not how it works. People have different personalities, nervous systems, experiences, support or the lack there of, with so many other variables. They can't just use one formula of "treatment" for everyone.

personally, it got really irritating after multiple times that either I knew more than they did, or one psychiatrist that threw an obnoxious temper tantrum after getting my IQ score results that were apparently higher than his. It was really ridiculous and was the last straw.

It helped me fully realize that just because someone has a title and a degree, does not make them an expert over you and your conditions.

You know what you need better than anyone else.

It's almost similar like people hundreds of years ago that thought the cure to illness was putting leeches on people to make them bleed it out. At the time they really thought that that was "medical" care, or "treatment".

For huge amounts of people like me, the current so-called treatment doesn't do anything, doesn't even begin to 'cure' or put a dent in it.

This says it all. So called professionals are a waste of time. I won't even go into the psychiatrist I saw, who's in far more need of seeing a psychiatrist than I am!

I had someone 'save' me from a suicide attempt only to abandon me afterwards. So let me get this straight. You force me to remain somewhere I'm in constant suffering against my will, because it will make you feel better, then leave me to continue to suffer on my own? What kind of bullshit is that? If you're gonna force me to stay here against my will at least have the decency to help and support me through it, otherwise you just made things even worse. Humans...

 

[Dystopic_Momento]

yes, and a few years ago when I was trying to figure out if I could get even partial disability to help me survive, I was told by 3 different disability attorneys that the majority of their clients are homeless
and have been waiting for around a year or sometimes two years because they said the federal government
automatically denies every single claim for disability regardless, even though on their website day stated they'll review it, they just automatically deny all claims, Unless the person is literally blind or paralyzed.

So even though we all are forced to pay money out of our paychecks for our entire life...when they are supposed to hold up their end of the bargain, they try to avoid it.
Real nice, huh? Hypocrites.

They act like there's only one treatment for every person out there, and that's just not how it works.

Social Security makes too many people homeless!

and by the time they get SSI (if they do) they can't get off the streets because they say you don't have enough cost of living to justify giving you enough to apply for a home (and with what address?) because you have no rent which means your expenses are low. I saw a guy on youtube talking about it and people called him a liar. I see similar stories on "invisable people" And if I lived past October 2020 that'll be me. And until then all 3 of us have to live on under 800 dollars a month.

This was my third try. Each time I had to reprove all the past disabilities even if my proof wasn't handed in by a lawyer.
They pretend you didnt' have it the entire time, and just applying is awful. I have fugue states and the paperwork causes them sometimes. Then I'll have missing paperwork, and an absolute mess on the floor where there were neat stacks someone helped me with, or maybe even shredded stuff.

All that, to wait two years to get a judge who yelled at me in the hearing over a driver's license he swore I had (I don't) and mocked me for having a connective tissue disease he hadn't read far enough to see I had. "OH, do you THINK you have LUPIS, too?" While the lawyer just flips through a bit of paperwork and says "actually she's diagnosed with that" and lets him continue ranting from the bench. The paperwork even said I had social media so my PTSD isn't bad. This is my only social media. He said my seizures (caused by a fractured skull suffered as a kid) could disappear and declared I could drive (it's illegal to drive with seizures) so I can do driving jobs. So much bs... and he had to have known I had no way to survive. This even cut me off from thyroid meds, PTSD meds, etc. So a slow kill is okay, but a faster death is denied? I did more lookup for SN and it turns out even that takes a half hour and comes with a massive headache. They could be honest and just let us go. But they'd rather commit a slow homicide via homelessness, or lack of healthcare, etc.

And they'll weasel out of SSD for the SSI any way they can.

On saying anyone can call themselves an expert, my last neurologist (and at least one doctor) said that PTSD is 100% curable with "exposure therapy" if the person works at it. Which is a freaking lie. I'm glad your doctor's listened to you. Even before they cut off my healthcare entirely (now I'm considered an able bodied adult because the only proof of disability is Social Security here).

I think they know what they're doing when they deny us the things we need to live. They're good with us dying slow or they wouldn't kill us off slowly. They just can't stand it if we do it and it's fast or painless.

 

[★†DaughterOfEve†★]

Because they think people should be able to endure the suffering
They want them to endure it because "life is a gift "

Well they are wrong & they are unfair, we aren't able to endure the suffering especially when the suffering is just too unbearable & excruciating. Life is a gift yes when you're not in that much pain.

 

[purplemoon]

This says it all. So called professionals are a waste of time. I won't even go into the psychiatrist I saw, who's in far more need of seeing a psychiatrist than I am!

I had someone 'save' me from a suicide attempt only to abandon me afterwards. So let me get this straight. You force me to remain somewhere I'm in constant suffering against my will, because it will make you feel better, then leave me to continue to suffer on my own? What kind of bullshit is that? If you're gonna force me to stay here against my will at least have the decency to help and support me through it, otherwise you just made things even worse. Humans...

Exactly...You got it!! They probably also threw out the bs line, "if you really want to get better you just need to tolerate everything else that goes along with the treatment", or "when you choose to be responsible", blah blah blah, *laughing*

The best treatment I ever had was when I was around the few truly wonderful friends I've had in my life, or one particular dating relationship that gave me a lot of happiness at the time.

Now that you're more awake... you will get even more insightful.

 

[WhyIsLife56]

Well they are wrong & they are unfair, we aren't able to endure the suffering especially when the suffering is just too unbearable & excruciating. Life is a gift yes when you're not in that much pain.

Life isn't a gift though. Antinatalists can agree that if you have to emphasize and distract people that life is a gift when it isn't implies that that life truly isn't a gift. People have evolved to lie to themselves. That's evolution 101.

 

[★†DaughterOfEve†★]

Life isn't a gift though. Antinatalists can agree that if you have to emphasize and distract people that life is a gift when it isn't implies that that life truly isn't a gift. People have evolved to lie to themselves. That's evolution 101.

Oh ok I suppose it's not no, so were you being sarcastic in your response to purple moon?

 

[WhyIsLife56]

Oh ok I suppose it's not no, so were you being sarcastic in your response to purple moon?

Yeah that's why I put life is a gift in quotation marks. I was making fun of pro life people and society in general.

 

[PaYo]

People are calmer, nicer to each other, more relaxed, more friendly to each other. At least a few countries I've been in other than this crazy America

Come to Europe. Within europe, Poland is the Safest and the most united country. Maybe even in the world.

But it seems that around too much of the world, and definitely in America, and so many other places, it's always like this:
"you're on your own. That's your problem. Too bad. That's not my problem." etc

I've heard that there is indigenous tribe that call a family meeting when someone have problem and there is no secret to no one with your problem and then everyone wants to help you if they can. But me, even this wont help. My problem is with the brain, so im fucked up, right from the start.

Where's the compassion? Where's the love?

Love? Its when if you are important to someone. But if you are not. Then what. Dunno.

One last thing
Ofc, that HATE destroys hate. But it has to be stronger. The stronger hater wins. That's what a vengence is.

 

[purplemoon]

Social Security makes too many people homeless!

and by the time they get SSI (if they do) they can't get off the streets because they say you don't have enough cost of living to justify giving you enough to apply for a home (and with what address?) because you have no rent which means your expenses are low. I saw a guy on youtube talking about it and people called him a liar. I see similar stories on "invisable people" And if I lived past October 2020 that'll be me. And until then all 3 of us have to live on under 800 dollars a month.

This was my third try. Each time I had to reprove all the past disabilities even if my proof wasn't handed in by a lawyer.
They pretend you didnt' have it the entire time, and just applying is awful. I have fugue states and the paperwork causes them sometimes. Then I'll have missing paperwork, and an absolute mess on the floor where there were neat stacks someone helped me with, or maybe even shredded stuff.

All that, to wait two years to get a judge who yelled at me in the hearing over a driver's license he swore I had (I don't) and mocked me for having a connective tissue disease he hadn't read far enough to see I had. "OH, do you THINK you have LUPIS, too?" While the lawyer just flips through a bit of paperwork and says "actually she's diagnosed with that" and lets him continue ranting from the bench. The paperwork even said I had social media so my PTSD isn't bad. This is my only social media. He said my seizures (caused by a fractured skull suffered as a kid) could disappear and declared I could drive (it's illegal to drive with seizures) so I can do driving jobs. So much bs... and he had to have known I had no way to survive. This even cut me off from thyroid meds, PTSD meds, etc. So a slow kill is okay, but a faster death is denied? I did more lookup for SN and it turns out even that takes a half hour and comes with a massive headache. They could be honest and just let us go. But they'd rather commit a slow homicide via homelessness, or lack of healthcare, etc.

And they'll weasel out of SSD for the SSI any way they can.

On saying anyone can call themselves an expert, my last neurologist (and at least one doctor) said that PTSD is 100% curable with "exposure therapy" if the person works at it. Which is a freaking lie. I'm glad your doctor's listened to you. Even before they cut off my healthcare entirely (now I'm considered an able bodied adult because the only proof of disability is Social Security here).

I think they know what they're doing when they deny us the things we need to live. They're good with us dying slow or they wouldn't kill us off slowly. They just can't stand it if we do it and it's fast or painless.

i'm so sorry for what you've been through, and it's just so sad.

It sounds like you tried your very best and the system is such that there's a combination of people that are paid to deny claims, plus the people who make horrible assumptions / conclusions that the person in front of them begging for help is a "liar". It's very hurtful when a judge, who is just another human being with plenty of bias them selves, insults you and other innocent people when the whole time you're telling the absolute truth.

It's really quite shocking how everything is so expensive, and people that are truly struggling and suffering, trying desperately to honestly get the real help that they need to get disability are denied. They act like help is out there, then when you reach for that help, it doesn't even do anything for most (?) people.

People are having to get roommates that they don't even really want just to survive to pay rent, or they're just barely making it alone, and all for what? So that the next month, and the next month after that, and the next year after that, they're still just barely making it. There are too many people that are understandably afraid of the government so they stop applying, as they could possibly be accused of fraud, or some ridiculous assumption. people are usually afraid of even filing Worker's Compensation when they're truly injured, because they treat you like you're a criminal who is lying and threaten you with jail. It didn't happen to me, but it happened to someone else. It's like who's the criminal? ... The group of people that call themselves our "government" and then don't even help the citizens that are paying taxes for their services!!

I call their behavior stealing from the people...that's certainly not an authentic government. It's hijacking our country... and they (Congress) continue to allow groups that pay them off under the table to maintain laws in favor of billionaires their own insurance companies, hospitals, etc.

I'm not a political person, but I am a person of principles. Timeless, universal principles of basic human rights. Then when some people call out their behavior, they're labeled and crushed. As long as you don't rock the boat too much, then you're not a threat. Like having a corrupt boss, just keep your head down and your mouth shut, and try to survive. It's just one more aspect of so much evil throughout human history, that hurts so many of the good people.

The irony is that it's actually the good people that should be in power, not the other way around.

 

[★†DaughterOfEve†★]

Yeah that's why I put life is a gift in quotation marks. I was making fun of pro life people and society in general.

Ah I get you now yeah. ;-) ;-P
What way are you looking to ctb? I'm hoping to go with N which is extremely difficult to obtain. :-(

 

[WhyIsLife56]

Ah I get you now yeah. ;-) ;-P
What way are you looking to ctb? I'm hoping to go with N which is extremely difficult to obtain. :-(

SN. I'm in the planning stages at the moment

 

[★†DaughterOfEve†★]

SN. I'm in the planning stages at the moment

ah ok best of luck with it. A few people have suggested it to me too but I think I'll have a more painless suicide with N.

 

[purplemoon]

Come to Europe. Within europe, Poland is the Safest and the most united country. Maybe even in the world.

I've heard that there is indigenous tribe that call a family meeting when someone have problem and there is no secret to no one with your problem and then everyone wants to help you if they can. But me, even this wont help. My problem is with the brain, so im fucked up, right from the start.

Love? Its when if you are important to someone. But if you are not. Then what. Dunno.

One last thing
Ofc, that HATE destroys hate. But it has to be stronger. The stronger hater wins. That's what a vengence is.

I like what i've heard about Poland over the years, thank you. I've been to a few countries in Europe and the Middle East; it's always healthy to have experiences that are global so you can see both the similarities and the differences in various perspectives across cultures.

Revenge is tricky, but many times it is justifiable and even necessary. Standing up for your rights is always good.

I just never want to let the monsters out there turn me into a monster as well, so I maintain who I am regardless of who they are.

As long as the revenge doesn't pull you into such darkness that you can't find your way back out.

 

[PaYo]

God is deceitful. It's fuckin lieing bastard. You want human to be good and loving? God isn't better and we are here to be the ones who do it better? We are made on the image of god for fuck sake. At least in nature ...

sory i cant say anything. In nature is deception and honesty. Fast and slow killing. But at least no animal is pretending connection to another, like human does.

 

[★†DaughterOfEve†★]

ah ok best of luck with it. A few people have suggested it to me too but I think I'll have a more painless suicide with N.

It's because I'm in so much pain already. :-(

 

[PaYo]

I like what i've heard about Poland over the years, thank you. I've been to a few countries in Europe and the Middle East; it's always healthy to have experiences that are global so you can see both the similarities and the differences in various perspectives across cultures.

Revenge is tricky, but many times it is justifiable and even necessary. Standing up for your rights is always good.

I just never want to let the monsters out there turn me into a monster as well, so I maintain who I am regardless of who they are.

As long as the revenge doesn't pull you into such darkness that you can't find your way back out.

I think if you react fast with your vengeance you will prevail. If you wait, it will eat you up. And instead of killing someone you will kill yourself.

 

[OneBigBlur]

yes, and a few years ago when I was trying to figure out if I could get even partial disability to help me survive, I was told by 3 different disability attorneys that the majority of their clients are homeless
and have been waiting for around a year or sometimes two years because they said the federal government
automatically denies every single claim for disability regardless, even though on their website they state they'll review it according to fair criteria, then they just automatically deny all claims, Unless the person is literally blind or paralyzed.

So even though we all are forced to pay money out of our paychecks for our entire life...when they are supposed to hold up their end of the bargain, they try to avoid it.
Real nice, huh? Hypocrites.

The worst part is that they expect you to continue living despite doing little to nothing to actually help you.

I think they Like to feel either heroic, or important somehow. Initially it is actually nice, but it seems that the majority of the time, they won't stick around Or tell people to just go "get counseling".

It's like why should I pay someone to pretend to care who Was told by other humans that they're "experts" now when they're not? Seriously?

I have the same university education they have, and I've probably read just as many if not more books and researched PTSD extensively, for example, than they have. There was one so-called PhD clinical psychologist Who didn't even know how the neurological system connects into the brain in people with PTSD, and it was really disappointing. At least she admitted it, seemed embarrassed, and then we went on chatting away like two college students and I ended up explaining to her how the amygdala circuitry has measurable physiological changes in part with cortisol interacting, the Changes in networked in dendritic connections in the corpus callosum , etc. worked. Shouldn't it have been the other way around?!

People get a title / certificate and then most people seem to assume that they're the "experts"... But are just human beings, and they certainly don't know everything. Also, if they learn from their professors that a certain theory of treatment is favored, does that guarantee that it will work for you? Or the next person? They act like there's only one treatment for every person out there, and that's just not how it works. People have different personalities, nervous systems, experiences, support or the lack there of, with so many other variables. They can't just use one formula of "treatment" for everyone.

personally, it got really irritating after multiple times that either I knew more than they did, or one psychiatrist that threw an obnoxious temper tantrum after getting my IQ score results that were apparently higher than his. It was really ridiculous and was the last straw.

It helped me fully realize that just because someone has a title and a degree, does not make them an expert over you and your conditions.

You know what you need better than anyone else.

It's similar to the assumptions / people had around a century ago who thought the cure to illness was putting leeches on people to make them bleed it out. At the time they really thought that was "medical" care, or "treatment" by "doctors".

For huge amounts of people like me, the current so-called treatment doesn't do anything, doesn't even begin to 'cure' or put a dent in it.

Their profession is designed around insurance and avoiding lawsuits, not helping people. I think very few of them actually have any kind of tools to help us recover from trauma or the symptoms that come from it and most of them don't care in any meaningful way. I'm not sure how talking to a stranger that is pretending to care and treating me like a science experiment is going to help me in the least, much less weekly threats of being sent to the psych ward. Those things are somehow suppose to establish "trust" but clearly I must be an idiot and am not seeing the bigger picture towards establishing a "therapeutic bond" as if that means anything in reality. This type of help might be considered useful if you're a normal person who lacks insight into trivial problems but anything more than that and you're on your own.

I really doubt that very many traumatized people even need therapy, they just need someone who listens, understands, shows affection, and won't abandon them because their problems are too difficult to hear. What people need is human connection and the mental health field is not a replacement for that in the slightest. How these people practice and the way that they approach me bothers me so profoundly that it actively hurts me emotionally to keep going back. I'd like it if someone cared but I'd be fooling myself if I believed that they did in any way that matters. Once I don't have money, lose my insurance, or the hour is up, they are nowhere to be found. And yet they will manage to convince themselves that they care but you can't even depend on them within the session itself. You can't have a honest conversation with them and you're met with emotional detachment because of some bullshit guidelines. My dream for this life was not to share the deepest parts of my soul with a complete stranger that gives me nothing but cold stares as I'm collapsing in front of them.

 

[theguineapigking]

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I'm just going to leave this here.

I agree life is suffering in so many ways. I think the idea of pregnancy and birth is disgusting and only brings people into this shitty world. The problem is that most people are not "awoken" enough to fathom that. They like to pretend life is beautiful and some other crap. Now think of it this way,spirits or not(I know you don't believe..I'm unsure of it since there's no proof),if your brain gets damaged for example,your personality can change.Your mental abilities and intelligence can change... My point is,I think most people's brains are just "defective". What I mean by that is they are just unable to fathom how bad existence is. It's just how their brain is made. Maybe their "life force" (meaning consciousness or self) isn't responsible for their stupidity. It's a fault of the brain. If they could see through your eyes or mine,they'd see life is so often a ******* joke.





This is a deep perspective. It may sound odd to those who are simple minded,but I assure you it is logical. The concept is whether the brain creates consciousness or not,the consciousness is kind of innocent in many cases. It's the brain that causes stupidity. This is why so many people are so dumb. See,I hate people,but also try to understand the possibility of this. But it certainly doesn't make people's ignorance any less annoying!



Thanks for reading. This is my deep perspective that I've given much thought to.

 

[WhyIsLife56]

I agree life is suffering in so many ways. I think the idea of pregnancy and birth is disgusting and only brings people into this shitty world. The problem is that most people are not "awoken" enough to fathom that. They like to pretend life is beautiful and some other crap. Now think of it this way,spirits or not(I know you don't believe..I'm unsure of it since there's no proof),if your brain gets damaged for example,your personality can change.Your mental abilities and intelligence can change... My point is,I think most people's brains are just "defective". What I mean by that is they are just unable to fathom how bad existence is. It's just how their brain is made. Maybe their "life force" (meaning consciousness or self) isn't responsible for their stupidity. It's a fault of the brain. If they could see through your eyes or mine,they'd see life is so often a ******* joke.





This is a deep perspective. It may sound odd to those who are simple minded,but I assure you it is logical. The concept is whether the brain creates consciousness or not,the consciousness is kind of innocent in many cases. It's the brain that causes stupidity. This is why so many people are so dumb. See,I hate people,but also try to understand the possibility of this.



Thanks for reading. This is my deep perspective that I've given much thought to.

Humans are traumatized apes. Their brains became bigger due to using tools and eating meat over time through evolution. When your brain gets bigger, it'll end up traumatized because humans weren't designed in the first place. Our existence isn't really natural. The things we do is just cause of evolution and survival instinct.

 

[theguineapigking]

Humans are traumatized apes. Their brains became bigger due to using tools and eating meat over time through evolution. When your brain gets bigger, it'll end up traumatized because humans weren't designed in the first place. Our existence isn't really natural. The things we do is just cause of evolution and survival instinct.

I can understand your logic. My perspective is anything is possible. When I think it's possible there's something after death,I don't simply mean Christianity with Jesus and God. I just think it's possible that consciousness carries on after death even if we did evolve from apes. Maybe existence is a mixture of the Big Bang and some form of spirituality.



Why do you believe there's nothing after death? Is it just hard to believe or perhaps you just simply think we evolved due to scientific explanations? I'm not judging you FYI. I'm genuinely interested in what you have to say. I'm not religious or anything. I am agnostic. I think anything is possible and there's really no way to be sure,since our awareness is too low to really know.





Thanks for chatting. It's nice to talk to someone who isn't annoying and insistent on God or that suicide is wrong. This website is indeed full of people with much more common sense than most other places.

 

[WhyIsLife56]

I can understand your logic. My perspective is anything is possible. When I think it's possible there's something after death,I don't simply mean Christianity with Jesus and God. I just think it's possible that consciousness carries on after death even if we did evolve from apes. Maybe existence is a mixture of the Big Bang and some form of spirituality.



Why do you believe there's nothing after death? Is it just hard to believe or perhaps you just simply think we evolved due to scientific explanations? I'm not judging you FYI. I'm genuinely interested in what you have to say. I'm not religious or anything. I am agnostic. I think anything is possible and there's really no way to be sure,since our awareness is too low to really know.





Thanks for chatting. It's nice to talk to someone who isn't annoying and insistent on God or that suicide is wrong. This website is indeed full of people with much more common sense than most other places.

Our consciousness dies out. The only way our consciousness exists because of the brain. When the brain dies, so does the consciousness.