Is there no relief in death?

[sickdog]

I've been depressed and suicidal for many years. But as someone who is not religious, it's hard for me understand if I will find any relief in death because I don't believe in an afterlife. If I choose to end it, there will be no sigh of relief, or feeling of peace, no "thank god, my suffering is finally over." Because I will simply cease to exist. My whole life would have been suffering. I struggle with this and I don't really know how to put it into words. How can you find relief in death when death is nothing? Has anyone thought of it this way?

 

[sevennn]

i think it all the time. if its nothing then all i ever did was live and suffer. i can only hope and pray and beg silently for something, anything good to be there after. so i can finally get my relief

 

[RiverOfLife]

The way I look at it, oblivion is better than continued suffering. So nothingness = peace.

 

[Ryn_0]

Ive come to terms with the fact that i won't really get 'closure' with my life when i die, but I guess when you look at it it won't matter. I've practiced passing out many times, and the feeling is always calm and even enjoyable for me. Almost like falling asleep, i noticed the same thing happening with my thoughts becoming random and incoherent, not noticing any feelings or situations around me. It's peaceful. Since my top methods currently equip that feeling of passing out, hopefully that's what my death will feel like too when it comes to it.
It's a subject you can dwell on for ages really, but death is nothing and that's the beauty of it for me

 

[GoSan1]

I hope we all find true happiness and peace forever.

 

[pthnrdnojvsc]

After Death I'll cease to exist forever

Permanent non-existence is the ultimate bliss no pain, no problems no suffering no bad memories

Non-existence forever is the only guarantee of never suffering extremely

I'm glad after Death I will never exist again

 

[OnMyLast Legs]

I struggle with this too. The relief is when you're alive. Has to be. I'm trying to enjoy my relief now knowing I have a roof over my head and a little time to tie up loose ends.

All suicide does is remove the future. You can be as gone from 2026 as you will be from 2260.

 

[HenryHenriksen_6E]

Same here. I'm afraid dying would feel like that - like taking a hard shit, but never getting the relief (sorry for the bad example, couldn't come up with a better one.) Imagine if everything is just gone, with nothing to make you feel fulfilled in the end. That feels pretty sad to me. Although, if you go for a peaceful method, I've heard that people with a near death experience enter a really odd state before waking up again. I'd hope to go like that, albeit if you decide to bloom like a flower by taking a shotgun to the head, I couldn't imagine how I'd feel relieved.

 

[sevennn]

Ive come to terms with the fact that i won't really get 'closure' with my life when i die, but I guess when you look at it it won't matter. I've practiced passing out many times, and the feeling is always calm and even enjoyable for me. Almost like falling asleep, i noticed the same thing happening with my thoughts becoming random and incoherent, not noticing any feelings or situations around me. It's peaceful. Since my top methods currently equip that feeling of passing out, hopefully that's what my death will feel like too when it comes to it.
It's a subject you can dwell on for ages really, but death is nothing and that's the beauty of it for me

how do you pass out? hyperventilate?

 

[Ryn_0]

how do you pass out? hyperventilate?

Yup, while crouching down and kinda going up and down, then stand up rapidly and blow into my nose hard while pinching it closed.

 

[mlha]

How can you find relief in death when death is nothing?

It's vacuously true. There's a relief in death and there's no relief in death both hold true.

 

[sevennn]

Yup, while crouching down and kinda going up and down, then stand up rapidly and blow into my nose hard while pinching it closed.

(sorry to derail the thread) but what method are you gonna use this with?

It's vacuously true. There's a relief in death and there's no relief in death both hold true.

i guess theres a relief in the thought of death whilst alive (no more suffering, etc), but technically death (nothingness) as a state cant be experienced. so in that way. theres no relief in it

 

[Sophie123]

Yup, while crouching down and kinda going up and down, then stand up rapidly and blow into my nose hard while pinching it closed.

can u explain this in detail pls? like time, method, etc?

 

[Ryn_0]

(sorry to derail the thread) but what method are you gonna use this with?

i guess theres a relief in the thought of death whilst alive (no more suffering, etc), but technically death (nothingness) as a state cant be experienced. so in that way. theres no relief i it

still planning it, but some kind of shallow water blackout / drowning combination. I live right up next to the sea and can paddleboard to a deep location at night. Idk if i should get drunk before or not, but ...still working out the quirks. Ive heard it is not the most reliable of methods though

can u explain this in detail pls? like time, method, etc?

im shit at explaining... but this thread is where i got most of my info from. Rest was just practice and finding out what worked for me. https://sanctioned-suicide.net/threads/partial-hanging-how-to-lose-consciousness-video-links.170338/

 

[Marco77]

Death cannot be experienced. We live to experience suffering and if we want to get rid of suffering it is not possible to experience anything. Existing and suffering are synonymous.

 

[FuneralCry]

For me personally never suffering in this existence ever again would be the relief, in fact it's all I hope for, in an existence where there's all this endless cruelty and suffering non-existence truly is all I see as desirable, I'm so tired of being conscious. For me peace could only lie in permanently ceasing to exist, all I've ever wished for is eternal nothingness, I'll never wish to suffer in this existence no matter what, for me existence itself is the problem, I'll always see it as a cruel, futile burden to have to exist and experience anything at all.

 

[divinemistress36]

Death cannot be experienced. We live to experience suffering and if we want to get rid of suffering it is not possible to experience anything. Existing and suffering are synonymous.

Im convinced we are here to learn suffering to

 

[charcoalcat]

If we are immortal, then yes the concept of relief in death may be questionable. But we aren't, so to ctb is basically advancing the inevitable that is death. I don't like this experience, hence I'm going for the finish line now. If you see meaning in this brief period that is your lifespan, you wouldn't be here in the first place.

 

[Asleepatlast]

I've been depressed and suicidal for many years. But as someone who is not religious, it's hard for me understand if I will find any relief in death because I don't believe in an afterlife. If I choose to end it, there will be no sigh of relief, or feeling of peace, no "thank god, my suffering is finally over." Because I will simply cease to exist. My whole life would have been suffering. I struggle with this and I don't really know how to put it into words. How can you find relief in death when death is nothing? Has anyone thought of it this way?

The relief is that death is nothing. I got to a point, being physically ill, that I didn't want there to be anything after this life. I craved nothing. Because something, by it's very nature, brings suffering. And an afterlife just sounded like more work. I was so exhausted I literally just wanted eternal rest never to wake again.

In truth, I hope there is a perfect paradise after this in which I will never know suffering again and only goodness and all the things I love. But if there is nothing that truly is the greatest peace in a way because there can be no suffering. There won't be anything to suffer.

 

[ijustwishtodie]

I think that death is permanent non existence and I consider that to be relief and peace. The lack of me sounds so peaceful to me. There'd be no suffering that could occur to me and I don't ever have to worry about anything in life or suffer through a lot of pointless hardship. The cessation of my sentience will be my ultimate relief

 

[Shrooms]

Death should not be a "place" in your mind nor a state of being. The thought death cannot make sense to us considering we have no clue what's going to happen. Other than your heart stopping and your internals stop working, we have little to no info on it. So I would "settle" with the fact that you don't know where you're going but you just have to hope it's better than what's happening in your life now. Best of luck.