temporary death: a sweet taste

[Life_and_Death]

something like sleep, but deeper. the feeling of death without dying. scared to die, not time to die, neutralizing yourself to the fear, whatever. its a temporary feeling that one like myself would abuse, most likely to death.
if only something like this existed, id give anything for it

 

[flightless bird]

Something like that exists. General anesthesia.

 

[Misswannadie]

I'm kinda scared to die and don't want to live. So most of the time I just sleep and that just makes everything worse cauz when I get up then I get this dreadful feeling that why am I alive, I just wanna die... and everything is a pain. Sleep is the only thing we can get which is kinda close to death but not death. What you're talking about sounds like a coma though.

 

[FuneralCry]

Non existence does sound very nice, it's the lack of experiencing anything that makes it sound so appealing to me. I think that it's just like how before we were born where time passed and yet we were not aware of anything. Temporary death sounds like a very deep sleep but with no dreams.

 

[TheLoneWolf]

"Sleep is good, death is better; but of course, the best thing would to have never been born at all."

- Heinrich Heine

 

[NeverEndingPain]

I'm kinda scared to die and don't want to live. So most of the time I just sleep and that just makes everything worse cauz when I get up then I get this dreadful feeling that why am I alive, I just wanna die... and everything is a pain. Sleep is the only thing we can get which is kinda close to death but not death. What you're talking about sounds like a coma though.

I wake up and everything hits me again which brings on instant panic. A feeling of doom takes over my body. I hate it

 

[HarpyWitch]

I'm kinda scared to die and don't want to live. So most of the time I just sleep and that just makes everything worse cauz when I get up then I get this dreadful feeling that why am I alive, I just wanna die... and everything is a pain. Sleep is the only thing we can get which is kinda close to death but not death. What you're talking about sounds like a coma though.

Damn that hit too close to home. Sleep is the only way to stop the suffering for just a moment, but at the same I hate it so much precisely because I have to wake up eventually. The morning dread is unbearable.

 

[Infernal]

I've heard that people can feel like they're dying or dead on certain drugs and it can either feel terrifying or wonderful. Maybe what you're thinking of is ego death.

 

[suavecool1]

Every fucking night I have to douse myself with high doses of trazodone and depakote or I only sleep maybe 3 hours. That is of course if I get to sleep. I constantly consider taking all my pills but I understand the statistics of it, only 26 percent of overdoses occur in death. I don't want to be brain dead or a vegetable. I took care of my wife of 25 years as a vegetable for the last 4 years of our marriage so I do know what that's like.

 

[Euthanza]

Yeah, I like the idea of sleeping 100 years, but it's the best to never wake up again regardless. Death is perfect.

 

[Sick of it all]

Those of you who get sleep are lucky. I have bad insomnia so I hardly ever get that sweet escape. Most nights are filled with anxiety as I desperately try to get a moment of sleep.