In your last moments....

[S like Siren]

In your last moments before dying, would you ask God's forgiveness?
I was raised as a Catholic, and even though I haven't been a practitioner for a long time, a few years ago I had some sort of mystical crisis (Just because I was in a lot of pain) I also went to Lourdes for a healing miracle but nothing. I prayed a lot, went to mass every day and studied the scriptures for almost nine months.After these months I felt inside that it was all nonsense, and that I was praying and talking to an image or statue (I felt immensely stupid ) and I no longer believed. Studying the scriptures is very beautiful, but like any other subject that may interest you, it is not true that God helps you. You believe that He helps you, but then in reality nothing changes.
Now I think that in my last moments I would ask God for forgiveness and I would also ask Him for the strength to commit the final act and to die.I would not do it for the fear of going to hell or purgatory (I think we have already lived here and if it exists at least I will be prepared !!!).
But I would do it because I think it would be something that would put me at peace with all that has been my painful life.After all, only God knows.And if everything written in the holy scriptures really exists, I really hope that God forgives me, have pity on me and the choices I've made. -God is Love,God is inside all of us-

 

[All Things Must Pass]

Fuck religion.

 

[nopointofliving]

I respect your choice and faith. Unfortunately, I lost my faith , I no longer believe in God. So I won't ask him forgiveness. In my last moments I will be ready to merge with darkness and void.

 

[S like Siren]

Fuck religion.

Is not about religion,is about faith

I respect your choice and faith. Unfortunately, I lost my faith , I no longer believe in God. So I won't ask him forgiveness. In my last moments I will be ready to merge with darkness and void.

I understand...but i think that you belive or have belived in Love,and surely you are capable of loving despite everything

 

[KleinerWolf]

I don't place all of my faith in the image of god but also the quantum energy and universe side of things.

I would probably be envisioning an alternative life in my final moments, sighing or feeling pity.
I would be listening to piano music and try to calm myself.
Because at time of death everything goes quiet.
Everything lose its meanings.

 

[motel rooms]

I was raised Catholic too, but I've never been tempted to believe that stuff. When I was a kid I thought it was funny. These days I find it patronizing & infuriating. I'd like to spray-paint the cathedral in my city with graffiti of gay couples kissing before I ctb

 

[S like Siren]

I was raised Catholic too, but I've never been tempted to believe that stuff. When I was a kid I thought it was funny. These days I find it patronizing & infuriating. I'd like to spray-paint the cathedral in my city with graffiti of gay couples kissing before I ctb

A graffiti of gay couple kissing in a cathedral....Beautiful!!!!It would be amazing

I don't place all of my faith in the image of god but also the quantum energy and universe side of things.

I would probably be envisioning an alternative life in my final moments, sighing or feeling pity.
I would be listening to piano music and try to calm myself.
Because at time of death everything goes quiet.
Everything lose its meanings.

I agree with what you wrote.I often imagine an alternative life. Sometimes to feel relief and remove the fear I start thinking that after death I will wake up in the life I have always wanted.

 

[HarpoMarx]

I'd ask god not to forgive me. I wouldnt want to be close to that entity for the eternity.

Thank god I dont believe in God.

 

[Luna88]

I think God and religion is an invention of humans because they are afraid of the dark

 

[WornOutLife]

Nope. If he/she/it really exists, they should be the one asking for forgiveness because this world sucks. Just visit a children's hospital and look how they're very sick and dying. How could I possibly believe in a God? If there's really one, I bet he's just an evil bastard.

I was raised as a Catholic too but fortunately, I read about different religions and became an agnostic simpy because I realized that if I had been born in any other country, my religion would probably different. For instance, if I lived in the middle east, I would probably be a muslim.

All in all, once I ctb, I'll just go for it. No hatred, no regrets.

 

[FuneralCry]

I do not believe in any religion. In my personal opinion I think people use religion as a way to distract themselves from their empty existence making them think there is a meaning to this life. In my last moments I will just take comfort from the fact that it is finally ending and I will embrace the nothingness of death.

 

[Fizz]

A lot of the comments here dismiss the real shame that can be borne from religion that is unknowingly carried by those who learned it young. One of my biggest fears is my grandmother despairing for my soul. Religion got her through so much hardship and it became the cornerstone of her relentless compassion and kindness. I was raised Catholic too and the guilt and fear is so real and so ingrained, it's hard to see the core of what it means to believe. Do believe me when I understand that conflict is hard.

Wanting the pain to stop is not an insult to God. When you think about it, he sent his son to suffer and to die - he would not be a hypocrite in the face of your own suffering. My own way of trying to live (and possibly die, recovery is hard) is to do my best in what I can do to be a good person while I'm here. Challenge ideas respectfully, speak for others when they can't, and and make an effort to ensure those I love know they're loved. I hope those would be the things that God would take away - death is the end result for everyone but it's the life lived that matters. Rather than asking for forgiveness (blaming yourself for something not your fault) maybe ask for guidance and peace? Reframing it might open up new ways of thinking for you.

 

[S like Siren]

when I was younger I often wondered if I was a bad person, and I told myself that if something bad happened to me I deserved it.Now that I suffer from severe depression and my family does not understand it deep down I don't really know what to think. They told me in moments of anger and aggression that I am a devilish person, that I have ruined their life and that if I kill myself I deserve to go to hell.So I would ask God for forgiveness because probably in my whole life I have done something bad. But you're right I could also ask for guidance and peace in my last moments. Thank you for the nice answer and advice.

 

[Meditation guide]

I have a lot to be grateful for. I would be thanking the universe in my final moments for a fantastic
ride. I've been very observant in this lifetime, and noticed many things that were amazing. I will be back in the next lifetime hopefully to spend more time in nature.

 

[Moose.000]

To each their own. I will be.

 

[S like Siren]

I have a lot to be grateful for. I would be thanking the universe in my final moments for a fantastic
ride. I've been very observant in this lifetime, and noticed many things that were amazing. I will be back in the next lifetime hopefully to spend more time in nature.

If there is another life for me after death I really hope it will be the life of dreams that I didn't have

 

[Fizz]

I just want to go back to when I was happiest.

 

[Dr Iron Arc]

If anything I'd maybe remind God that the prevailing theory of the afterlife sucks and that a better designed one has already been thought of courtesy of The Good Place.

As they said in the final season of the show, sending everyone who isn't a complete paragon of goodness to suffer in eternal hellfire is the equivalent of jailing someone for life because they smoked one blunt. Docking points off people for being bad without taking into account their circumstances and even genetics is ignoring the complexities of life. It's just unnecessarily cruel and unfair. Sure life isn't fair but who said the afterlife also had to be unfair?

 

[Seiba]

I've been an atheist since birth so not in my case.

 

[Bullit]

Your goddamn right I will ask God to forgive me. That will be the last thing I think,most likely.

 

[xkonstantinexx]

I was raised Catholic too. In my last dying moments, I'd probably ask for peace and consolation for the loved ones that I leave behind. Forgiveness? Haven't gotten that far yet.

 

[logan]

I am not a Catholic.
But I would also pray for happiness and health for my family and my children.
And ask for forgiveness for the wrong choices in my life.

 

[All Things Must Pass]

And if everything written in the holy scriptures really exists

We know for sure they don't because of the disproven flood myth.

 

[NeverReallyHere]

Forgiveness is for when someone has wronged you in some way. Do we wrong God when we take our own lives, and if so, how? Do we wrong him by rejecting the gift of life he has given us? No. Rejecting a gift is the prerogative of the recipient; if they are not free to reject it then it is not a gift, but a burden which has been forced upon them. Other than that the best I can say is he's given me a dysfuctional monkey brain which works ok, sort of, some of the time, and a place of relative privilege within a fundamentally cruel and unjust world. Asking God for forgiveness is like asking forgiveness from an architect for knocking down the shitty house he designed.

 

[logan]

Forgiveness is for when someone has wronged you in some way. Do we wrong God when we take our own lives, and if so, how? Do we wrong him by rejecting the gift of life he has given us? No. Rejecting a gift is the prerogative of the recipient; if they are not free to reject it then it is not a gift, but a burden which has been forced upon them. Other than that the best I can say is he's given me a dysfuctional monkey brain which works ok, sort of, some of the time, and a place of relative privilege within a fundamentally cruel and unjust world. Asking God for forgiveness is like asking forgiveness from an architect for knocking down the shitty house he designed.

Interesting point of view.

It then depends on whether one sees life as a gift and takes responsibility for one's life - with all the advantages and disadvantages.

 

[S like Siren]

We know for sure they don't because of the disproven flood myth.

But you know it is also full of stories of saints ... and what if it were all true? I mean heaven, hell, purgatory, angels, etc ... I am always in doubt

 

[motel rooms]

But you know it is also full of stories of saints ... and what if it were all true? I mean heaven, hell, purgatory, angels, etc ... I am always in doubt

What if all the Greek myths are true? Why don't people take those seriously anymore?

 

[S like Siren]

Forgiveness is for when someone has wronged you in some way. Do we wrong God when we take our own lives, and if so, how? Do we wrong him by rejecting the gift of life he has given us? No. Rejecting a gift is the prerogative of the recipient; if they are not free to reject it then it is not a gift, but a burden which has been forced upon them. Other than that the best I can say is he's given me a dysfuctional monkey brain which works ok, sort of, some of the time, and a place of relative privilege within a fundamentally cruel and unjust world. Asking God for forgiveness is like asking forgiveness from an architect for knocking down the shitty house he designed.

Who decides that the house is shitty? Maybe God created it in a certain way for a certain reason that we can't understand. This is what Christians would say but I understand what you say. Living in the world is difficult and painful when you are or feel or you are considered "different" and "weak".

 

[Deadlyroses]

"God" can go find the biggest, spiniest cactus and fuck himself in the ass with it.

 

[S like Siren]

What if all the Greek myths are true? Why don't people take those seriously anymore?

Myths are assumed to be false and religion to be true instead. However, living in a country where the Christian religion is so strong and powerful ... and growing up with these beliefs from an early age makes it all confusing.I mean it's hard for me not to remain in doubt especially after my mystical crisis two years ago after being in Lourdes ... I really believed in it with all my heart, and it had to do with a deep intimate faith not with religious rules etc ... I think this has left an indelible mark inside me.