The thought of non existence is comforting

[FuneralCry]

In this life, the only thing that is a relief is the thought of non existence. I believe death to be true peace where nothing can ever hurt us and everything that is wrong with life will finally be gone. Peace could never exist in life, to me peace is the absence of everything. Life is unpredictable and uncertain, there is constant suffering experienced always with the chance that things could get much worse. Life can torture people in unimaginable ways and even if someone has something positive in life it will just be taken away and cause them to suffer more. Life can be so awful, tedious, tiring and this is why death is such a relief. Death removes the true cause of all our problems in the first place which is life itself.
Instead of being full of dread for what lies ahead in life and suffering in the present moment, there is simply nothing and nothingness is ideal.

It's cruel to deprive people of achieving eternal rest as to me it's the best thing that could possibly happen. Dying should be as easy as just wishing to be gone for anyone who wants to leave this life behind. I find it comforting how eventually we will all die and be forgotten about. If someone is suffering right now it will end eventually and to think that all pain will end is such a relief. At least someday I will be able to permanently rest. The only thing positive about existence is that it will end.

 

[Hiraeth Grimoire]

nonexistence would be the best of all possible realities to my calculations. The return to unmanifested potential is what I desire, nevermore fragmenting into a pathetic meat puppet, slaving to my biological programming like a zombie. Life is a disaster, and a terrible mistake, a condition worth pitying. We are all self soothing meat timers, telling ourselves pleasant lies rather than facing the horror of our predicament.

 

[classicfukup]

I wish I felt the same way. I am afraid of non existence. Really wish I wasn't.

 

[Suicideorgy]

For me its like taking off a pair of heavy work boots after a long day or entering a sleep where you never have to wake up.

 

[Astral Storm]

Exactly. Life is a true abomination. There's screaming, suffering, torture, wars and all kinds of horrors every single second. Death feels like a sanctuary. It makes me feel at ease that I can leave this horrible world.

 

[Forever Sleep]

For me its like taking off a pair of heavy work boots after a long day or entering a sleep where you never have to wake up.

Or, resigning from that job you really hated.

 

[Rational man]

Cessation of life is guaranteed for all life and eventually this planet. Look in a busy town and everyone roaming around will be dead in less than 100 Years. We all die, unfortunately for many people, suffering is part of living. Its a very tough world.

 

[tired868686]

I think peace is just a concept like a lot of other things in human existence.
Other animals (I don't think) are plagued by what humans are. They just live in the moment.
Humans are stuck in a cycle of regret, pressure for the future, debts, relationships, finding a place, finding a purpose, it just goes on and on.
Being human seems only a good thing for those who enjoy the experience. Though a lot of that is circumstantial.

I wish I felt the same way. I am afraid of non existence. Really wish I wasn't.

Everyone has fear about something. Or lots of things.
Don't ever wish for what you're not.
It's worth being who you are. It's a subjective experience but everyone is secretly afraid.

 

[Darkover]

the reason it's such a shit world is because of evolution it's a terrible way to create life i mean we can't even do simple mathematics at a very fast speed it takes a long time to do anything in this place, once ai machines arrive the world will be transformed they will be able to do things we could never do in a very fast time compared to biological machines
it's going to take a few decades to get there tho, i mean we need to take every computer on earth and squeeze it down into the size of a human brain they will have far better memory
be 1000s of times faster our world is set to be transformed

 

[Onw9]

How can you say animals are ok and content? They aren't capable to think doesn't mean they are not suffering. Look at the food chain peace is never compatible. The state of just living in the 'moment' or whatever is impossible to be in for all sentient beings

I think peace is just a concept like a lot of other things in human existence.
Other animals (I don't think) are plagued by what humans are. They just live in the moment.
Humans are stuck in a cycle of regret, pressure for the future, debts, relationships, finding a place, finding a purpose, it just goes on and on.
Being human seems only a good thing for those who enjoy the experience. Though a lot of that is circumstantial.

Everyone has fear about something. Or lots of things.
Don't ever wish for what you're not.
It's worth being who you are. It's a subjective experience but everyone is secretly afraid.

 

[tired868686]

How can you say animals are ok and content? They aren't capable to think doesn't mean they are not suffering. Look at the food chain peace is never compatible. The state of just living in the 'moment' or whatever is impossible to be in for all sentient beings

I'm sorry.
I'm not talking about human interference with nature.
I mean in the wild. In their own habitat.
They suffer just like every other organism.
For all we know, a virus that we kill to keep ourselves alive is still something that's living being destroyed.
I was only saying that animals don't sit around questioning why they're alive. They just live until they don't.
They endure tremendous suffering. From humans and within their own environment.

 

[Onw9]

I'm sorry.
I'm not talking about human interference with nature.
I mean in the wild. In their own habitat.
They suffer just like every other organism.
For all we know, a virus that we kill to keep ourselves alive is still something that's living being destroyed.
I was only saying that animals don't sit around questioning why they're alive. They just live until they don't.
They endure tremendous suffering. From humans and within their own environment.

They don't have the capacity to question about their survival that's the problem.We humans have only been here for thousand of years but they've been suffering since the start. They have just been going with their biological instinct to survive

 

[tired868686]

They don't have the capacity to question about their survival that's the problem.We humans have only been here for thousand of years but they've been suffering since the start. They have just been going with their biological instinct to survive

Yes I agree with you completely.

 

[wait.what]

The thought of non-existence is comforting to me as well, even when I don't hate being alive in that particular moment. This morning is better for me than last night was. No special reason. Maybe the same steroids that kept me up all night are finally making a dent in the stupid autoimmune flare that's been driving me crazy.

This thread (and insomnia) prompted me to look up the "to die, to sleep--no more" passage in Hamlet's soliloquy. I'd forgotten how entertaining it can be to re-punctuate Shakespeare:

"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!"

A dear friend of mine passed away a week ago. He did not catch the bus. The bus caught him--congestive heart failure. He knew it was coming and did not want to die. He felt there was still so much left in the world for him. I'd have donated my life to him in a heartbeat, if the expression isn't tacky under the circumstances. Even when I don't hate being alive, I just sort of feel like I've had enough. I don't need any more, thanks. The poor fellow who just passed could have lived enough for the two of us.

Bitter ironies.

 

[dustyfurcollector]

The thought of non-existence is comforting to me as well, even when I don't hate being alive in that particular moment. This morning is better for me than last night was. No special reason. Maybe the same steroids that kept me up all night are finally making a dent in the stupid autoimmune flare that's been driving me crazy.

This thread (and insomnia) prompted me to look up the "to die, to sleep--no more" passage in Hamlet's soliloquy. I'd forgotten how entertaining it can be to re-punctuate Shakespeare:

"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!"

A dear friend of mine passed away a week ago. He did not catch the bus. The bus caught him--congestive heart failure. He knew it was coming and did not want to die. He felt there was still so much left in the world for him. I'd have donated my life to him in a heartbeat, if the expression isn't tacky under the circumstances. Even when I don't hate being alive, I just sort of feel like I've had enough. I don't need any more, thanks. The poor fellow who just passed could have lived enough for the two of us.

Bitter ironies.

I'm so sorry for that terrible loss.

 

[Szinuus]

In this life, the only thing that is a relief is the thought of non existence. I believe death to be true peace where nothing can ever hurt us and everything that is wrong with life will finally be gone. Peace could never exist in life, to me peace is the absence of everything. Life is unpredictable and uncertain, there is constant suffering experienced always with the chance that things could get much worse. Life can torture people in unimaginable ways and even if someone has something positive in life it will just be taken away and cause them to suffer more. Life can be so awful, tedious, tiring and this is why death is such a relief. Death removes the true cause of all our problems in the first place which is life itself.
Instead of being full of dread for what lies ahead in life and suffering in the present moment, there is simply nothing and nothingness is ideal.

It's cruel to deprive people of achieving eternal rest as to me it's the best thing that could possibly happen. Dying should be as easy as just wishing to be gone for anyone who wants to leave this life behind. I find it comforting how eventually we will all die and be forgotten about. If someone is suffering right now it will end eventually and to think that all pain will end is such a relief. At least someday I will be able to permanently rest. The only thing positive about existence is that it will end.

I love your posts.

 

[StruggleWithin]

I like and agree with your sentiment about non existence. I just wish that I believe in it. I can't seem to get past the thought that ghosts/spirits/afterlife/souls/energy, whatever you want to call it, or continuing is a certainty. Maybe it was my catholic upbringing that I can't shrug off. It's this and the idea of "God" I think that keeps me being an agnostic. I am almost an atheist but not quite. The fear of existing forever after this life, like being eternally in a state of consciousness, keeps me from pursuing to ctb. As of right now, the escape from my mental turmoil is only achieved by my dreamless sleep every night. I hope for non existence.

 

[iltloml]

I will never understand why is it that you hurt your family and friends if you die. They are only going to care for that few weeks and than puff you are gone. Some people will probably remember the day you died for a couple of years and that will be it. Why is it so selfish to take your life if it ain't worth living.

 

[theboy]

mmmm I need to get it out of my head that I will be alive in eternal darkness

 

[ger3172]

"sleep is good, death is better, but the best thing would be to never have been born at all"

 

[dreambound]

if people could just let go of this whole narcisistic 'aren't we awesome' egomaniacle need to procreate
& waltz down to the supermarket & buy a couple of thousand condoms for about $2 , they could contribute
to the end of suffering, & the long road to recovery for the planet....

 

[Bigpink]

Thousands of years when I wasn't here and all the years to come when I won't be here living this shitty life.

This gives me some comfort.

 

[Justnotme]

non-existence frightens me only because I may never see those whom I love, my family again. I really hope that after death we meet those whom we loved. Yes, we will not be in such a dense body, not in such a form. But still I want my family to be with me after death.

 

[CemetryGates]

I really hope you're right x

 

[Mjølnir]

I feel the same. I'm okay with not existing anymore. It will just be nothing.

 

[gimzero]

It is nothingness and the problem is why we stay here and live lifes that other program for us!

 

[Orange010]

You have to earn to be something. I can't be something, and I'm tired of trying to be something. So I just want to be nothing. And disappear so something wouldn't be missing in everyone's life. But people won't let me be nothing