Discussion The Finality of Death

[UserFromNowhere]

Over the past few months, years, that I've been contemplating suicide I've slowly come to rationalize every other reason for survival away. Neither a job nor friends would make my life more worth living, I'd feel empty all the same. Medication can't numb the pain as I just slowly watch my life wither away. The only reason for sticking around, for staying on this Earth, is that death is final. There will be no second chances, no attempts to make things better, all there will be is the quiet embrace of death as life continues on, as the world goes on without me. I've never been one to fear death, not one to fear a world rid of me. That's how it will be anyways, in 50 years or next month. It picks at my brain anyways, trapping me under the image of a lost reality, and I've come to ask how everyone else deals with it?

 

[FuneralCry]

For me the fact that death is permanent is exactly why I wish for it, for me non-existence really is all that's positive and is the only peace and relief, I just want to never suffer in this cruel, torturous and deeply undesirable existence again, I'll just always see existence as the problem and I see existence as a terrible, cruel mistake that just causes harm and suffering until non-existence takes away all anyway and I'd just always prefer to not exist than suffer so unnecessarily. To me existing really is only suffering with no limit as to how much one can be tortured and as long as I exist I'll just wish for no more pain and no more suffering, I just wish to be unconscious for all eternity with all finally forgotten but more than anything I just wish I never suffered at all.

 

[kagebunshin]

Death comes for us all. It isn't a choice about whether or not to die, but a choice of when. Whether we fear it, whether we wait for it, whether we ponder its meaning and consequence, at the end none of that matters.

Dying is the only negative act. By that I mean that it produces nothing. It isn't like breathing or walking or talking, but is by nature the absence of action. You can't "die" because nothing can be "dead". It isn't a state of being. All you can do is disappear, and turn your corpse into a little void that serves as a temporary reminder that once something was that no longer is.

There is no hurry to die. I believe that if there's anything at all that you want from the world, like seeing or doing something, or talking to someone, then that's reason enough to keep living a little longer. When there comes a time when the world has nothing left to offer you, the future is closed, and you truly feel that your heart is already dead, then perhaps it's the right time to go. With nothing to fear, the decision is entirely yours.

 

[UserFromNowhere]

There is no hurry to die. I believe that if there's anything at all that you want from the world, like seeing or doing something, or talking to someone, then that's reason enough to keep living a little longer. When there comes a time when the world has nothing left to offer you, the future is closed, and you truly feel that your heart is already dead, then perhaps it's the right time to go. With nothing to fear, the decision is entirely yours.

I think you have given me an insight, making the issue clear. I have no dread of death, just questions that linger. What lies beyond, what world unfolds when I am gone? I am blind of the future, of the world unknown. I know there are sights yet to behold, friends left to talk to, I feel emptiness all the same. The spark of curiosity being the only thing that burns bright. Is the spark fundamental, or just survival instinct keeping me bound, as death looms near? Can I find peace in the grave, where the suffering ends?

 

[kagebunshin]

I think you have given me an insight, making the issue clear. I have no dread of death, just questions that linger. What lies beyond, what world unfolds when I am gone? I am blind of the future, of the world unknown. I know there are sights yet to behold, friends left to talk to, I feel emptiness all the same. The spark of curiosity being the only thing that burns bright. Is the spark fundamental, or just survival instinct keeping me bound, as death looms near? Can I find peace in the grave, where the suffering ends?

That spark of curiosity exists only in life, and there is nothing to be found in death. Why should you hasten yourself to the grave when life still has something to offer? The option of taking your own life will always be there. It isn't "now or never". Ponder those questions you have regarding what death means to you. Think deeply about existential concepts. It doesn't matter where the spark of curiosity finds its source; all that matters is that it exists. I say, chase it while you can. If you're already resigned to death, then you have nothing to lose.

 

[Darkover]

that's what i look forward too the finality of life to be nothing for all time why i had to be born in the first place is what bothers me

 

[Alexandra0]

It seems that I am almost not afraid of death either. But I am afraid of this life, how long and painful it can be. The only thing that makes me happy is that there is death. And sooner or later it will embrace me and I will be able to dissolve