Taking the burden off of us

[LeavingThisHell]

"A good death is one where a person prefers to die rather than to live on in irreparable physical or mental pain." -Guide to a humane self-chosen death

For many of us CTB is an inevitable fate. Life just happened to put us in this situation where you can either stay here rotting alive or leave through the door.
So just like that famous Mexican tradition that celebrates death, I was thinking maybe we could try to look at CTB through a more positive lens.

How? Well, think about how a captive feels happy about the idea of escaping. Why is it that someone who escapes captivity can feel guiltlessly happy about it while we feel like we're doing this horrible thing to ourselves and to humankind?
Simple: social conditioning. We've been brainwashed by a society that unconsciously still walks on grounds of past religious dogmas about death. I think most of us (myself included) have this lingering sense of guilt about it.

If we flip this conditioning and create a more optimistic view on what we're planning to do, then this can take a lot of the burden off of us, and we can enjoy our final days/months/years without feeling like the worst crap in the world.
So basically the idea is working on removing this sense of guilt and trying to be more positive about the fact we're going to escape from this captivity called life.

What are your thoughts on this?

 

[ma0]

I absolutely prefer this outlook, where I can view death as an eventual release and eternal freedom rather than something I should feel guilty for.

That being said, the majority opinion will certainly not change. This ignorant stigma of "Death=bad, life=good" will still be believed by people who have only seen one perspective.

 

[cagedSage]

May the next adventure ,be greater than the last.
I also enjoyed reading about your outlook, a shift in mentality is unable to resolve my problems in life, but perhaps it can resolve my problems in leaving it

 

[LeavingThisHell]

May the next adventure ,be greater than the last.
I also enjoyed reading about your outlook, a shift in mentality is unable to resolve my problems in life, but perhaps it can resolve my problems in leaving it

That's exactly the point. For many of us here life is beyond repair. And we can't say we did't try.
But then if there's nothing else to do but leaving this world, then it's certainly more helpful to make it a not so negative thing.

I absolutely prefer this outlook, where I can view death as an eventual release and eternal freedom rather than something I should feel guilty for.

That being said, the majority opinion will certainly not change. This ignorant stigma of "Death=bad, life=good" will still be believed by people who have only seen one perspective.

Certainly the majority will never change, but it's something that's possible to do at an individual level.

*Btw just fixed a typo on the title (bad engrish) I think it's correct now.

 

[FuneralCry]

I understand as non-existence really is all that's positive for me personally, I'd always prefer to not exist than suffer in this existence and I see it as deeply undesirable to exist in every way, I'd be so relieved if I had the option to peacefully cease existing and never suffer ever again as the thought of being burdened with this futile, torturous existence just to die in agony from old age is really horrific to me. I suffer so much from how I cannot just have the option to simply cease existing in peace to free myself from this existence that was so tragically imposed with no risks of trying to die going wrong and leading to way worse torture, I find it so dreadful to be enslaved in this existence that always felt like a mistake to me in the first place.