NDEs

[tupacshakur987123]

It seems like 80% of suicide NDEs are positive all about unconditional love, joy, peace, bliss, harmony, heaven.

Then there is the 20% that I read that seems terrifying where ppl experience the dark void or hellish realms.

Whenever I read the positive ones I feel comfortable with my decision to CTB but then I still have this unconscious fear of a negative experience. What if we get stuck in a place worse than this? What do you all make of the suicide NDEs?

 

[needed_]

i honestly think whatever is waiting for us, it can't be worse than this.

 

[FuneralCry]

No matter what people say, I will never believe there is anything after death. I think once we lose consciousness, that is it for us, we are gone. The thought of non existence is very comforting.

 

[Snake of Eden]

The same as we were powerless when we incarnated to this chaotic shithole, we are also powerless in regards to what happens to us after we die. NDEs are a possibility for what happens after we die but it is not a solid fact.

 

[Rational man]

The end is waiting for everyone. Look.in the streets. Everybody will be dead in 100 Years or less. Thats just a blink of an eye in cosmic time. So the time between life and death is akin to a LIGHT going out. Purgatory doesnt exist!.

 

[fox_wannabe]

Purgatory doesn't exist!.

I kinda feel I live in one.

Edit: I think this way because that is what purgatory would look like: Doing same things over and over again.


For real I read a lot of NDEs and every one of them is strangely similar. There is even cool theory about it. But It goes so deep I cannot imagine explaining it to people who are not in the know already

 

[Snake of Eden]

Death is a pause. It is an end of a chapter. The story continues

 

[LittleJem]

Idk but I was alone on Christmas Day and so I gave myself some K and for some reason my trip was about death and transience and it comforted me. I love a line I read the other day about death: 'nature's greatest anaesthetic'. Let us hope so!
Ps I used to believe in reincarnation etc and now I don't care and would rather not.
Ps I used to believe in reincarnation etc and now I don't care and would rather not.

 

[tupacshakur987123]

No matter what people say, I will never believe there is anything after death. I think once we lose consciousness, that is it for us, we are gone. The thought of non existence is very comforting.

Yeah non existence would be awesome as well, no more pain and suffering , no more awareness

 

[Mashedout]

i honestly think whatever is waiting for us, it can't be worse than this.

It can be much worse, much much worse. The imagination can conjure up some truely horrific scenarios given some effort. That is part of the reason why people have a hard time ctb.

 

[ElderRecluse]

Timothy Leary said something to the effect that, the best thing you can do in life is to die, and death is the last great adventure.

I'm sorry, I don't mean this post as an encouragement to proceed to CTB, but as just adding a great man's, (my opinion), thinking to the subject. I believe these quotes came from him as he was dying of cancer.

 

[back_to_oblivion]

I don't know what to think of them. It seems only a minority of people who come close to death experience an NDE, most people didn't experience anything (or at least don't report anything).

 

[DisillusionedDragon]

I don't believe anything supernatural/spiritual whatever exists, so I really don't make anything of NDEs of any kind. People will see what they want to see and the rest is just random firing of neurons. My brain has already produced some "crazy" experiences in the past, so I really don't think that some "crazy" NDE is beyond its capabilities, some reports actually remind me a little of things I have experienced, like some heavy dissociation for example. Our brains are just crazy "things" overall, honestly, I never cease to be amazed or horrified.

But the fear of death and of what may follow is completely natural. I guess it mostly stems from innate fear/apprehension, fear of the unknown and fear of potential suffering. People have and will always experience these things, that's why every religion tells you what will happen after you die and gives you instructions on how to avoid potential suffering thereafter.

Maybe acknowledging that these things are a universal experience can bring you some comfort. Even Shakespeare openly reflects on this issue, or more precisely Hamlet, as he ponders whether"to be or not to be":

To be, or not to be, that is the question:
Whether 'tis nobler in the mind to suffer
The slings and arrows of outrageous fortune,
Or to take arms against a sea of troubles
And by opposing end them. To die—to sleep,
No more; and by a sleep to say we end
The heart-ache and the thousand natural shocks
That flesh is heir to: 'tis a consummation
Devoutly to be wish'd. To die, to sleep;
To sleep, perchance to dream—ay, there's the rub:
For in that sleep of death what dreams may come,
When we have shuffled off this mortal coil,
Must give us pause—there's the respect
That makes calamity of so long life.
For who would bear the whips and scorns of time,
Th'oppressor's wrong, the proud man's contumely,
The pangs of dispriz'd love, the law's delay,
The insolence of office, and the spurns
That patient merit of th'unworthy takes,
When he himself might his quietus make
With a bare bodkin? Who would fardels bear,
To grunt and sweat under a weary life,
But that the dread of something after death,
The undiscovere'd country, from whose bourn
No traveller returns, puzzles the will,
And makes us rather bear those ills we have
Than fly to others that we know not of?
Thus conscience doth make cowards of us all,
And thus the native hue of resolution
Is sicklied o'er with the pale cast of thought,
And enterprises of great pith and moment
With this regard their currents turn awry
And lose the name of action.