There are things in life that make some people unhappy, CTB is the destruction of those things, it is a freedom. Agree or not?

[parallelluniverse]

Also, what are those things for you? That CTB might give you freedom from? The things that stop you being happy that CTB would bring destruction to?

Edit: Or simply, what would CTB bring an end to for you, which stops you being happy/content/amused/mildly-distracted/etc/

 

[the_path_of_sorrows]

I think that we are more or less slaves in this society, capitalism literally makes you work to death. Not a single minute to do something you love. I would prefer being dead than this hellish nightmare. What's the point of living if you can't even enjoy the experience?

 

[FuneralCry]

For me suicide means preventing all future unnecessary, meaningless suffering in an existence that was always undesirable in the first place, I have no interest in existing and I believe it to be both so tragic and horrifying how life even exists at all.
I don't see anything appealing about suffering for decades in this reality where there is unlimited potential for pain and harm just to be tormented by old age and die anyway, existence is the source of all suffering after all so I see being eternally relieved from it as something positive.

 

[strangelife]

I think that nothing in life can encourage a person to commit suicide except in cases of getting rid of physical or mental pain, when life turns into terrible torture every day, then ctb becomes the only solution if all other ways of getting rid did not work.

 

[AbsurdAbyss]

A home that imprisons and poisons me. A world that makes me feel worse about myself by constantly trying to make me feel better about it. A life that's veered so far off course there's barely any room left to breathe in this wreck I find myself buried in. My time is ticking out, and suddenly I realise I've only ever really cared about the end, because it offers something no beginning or middle ever could - liberation.

 

[pthnrdnojvsc]

Non-existence would free from 1000's of horrible things.

Just some

Life is a burdensome imposition , and prison slavery torture . Would free me from the prison and this evil world.

Would free me from :Unbearable unending constant pain, problems, suffering , diseases, old age, accidents, having to feed self, hunger, having to work a job, chores, making groceries, having to fix and clean every damn thing, needs, terrible memories, humiliations, boredom, embarrasment, worry, grief, sadness, depression, inflation, oppression , threat of homelessness, homelessness, evil , lies, injustice , totalitarianism, scams , brainwashing, theft, plagiarism, not giving credit for stolen ideas, bullying , ostracization, many more hells

Free me from this evil suicide prohibition state, this upsidedown world where assisted suicide for those suffering is made a crime

Free me from this fragile decaying animal body prison, these cells they call a human body. Free from this horror of a brain that can suffer unbearable constant unending pain but that they tell us is a beautiful gift

Free me from this horror called sentience / consciousness that randomly evolved in the vertebrate / animal / human brain, the ability to suffer unbearable constant long lasting pain , the abomination of all abominations but that they tell us constantly is a beautiful gift that we have to be grateful for

 

[FutureHanger]

I was thinking of making a similar thread, asking what people view their CTB as (end of misery, leaving life because it's meaningless, revenge, end of participation in society etc.) and that just reminds me that I've been procrastinating making such a thread for days, yet another example of how I'm too lazy for life.

Anyways to answer the question: It's an escape from my pain, escape from me doing something in the future that'll hurt people as I don't trust myself to not do something immoral for a couple months straight, escape from this evil world, escape from how even minor inconveniences feel too overwhelming to bother living through, escape from capitalism making me a slave, escape from the climate apocalypse which I believe will definitely become significant before I'm old enough to retire from aforementioned capitalist slavery, escape from overall having a terrible future as climate change, capitalism, fascism etc. Are getting worse and worse, Escape from what I believe will be terrible persecution for LGBT people like myself in the future as toxic masculinity seems to be on the rise and I don't believe all these politicians going for trans people will stop at just them plus Ghana's recent law just serves as another reminder of the future to come.

 

[ijustwishtodie]

To me, ctb is about giving myself what I deserve - permanent non existence... because I deserve peace and permanent non existence is the only thing that can give me peace permanently. Life just isn't designed for me and never will be. Ctbing means escaping life early which means that my total cumulative suffering would decrease massively (this is compared to me living on and suffering) and I don't deserve this suffering. I suffer by just existing hence why the absence of existence is what suits me

 

[parallelluniverse]

A home that imprisons and poisons me. A world that makes me feel worse about myself by constantly trying to make me feel better about it. A life that's veered so far off course there's barely any room left to breathe in this wreck I find myself buried in. My time is ticking out, and suddenly I realise I've only ever really cared about the end, because it offers something no beginning or middle ever could - liberation.

That struck me as slightly... poetic. Nice. I get the whole... 'A world that makes me feel worse about myself by constantly trying to make me feel better about it.'... I don't think the world does though ...

 

[Homo erectus]

Freedom... But what is it? Is it just like nothingness, an imaginative negation of what is, something that actually doesn't exist?

 

[TiredOfAllThis]

CTB is removal of oneself from this existence and thus escaping pointless suffering and torment (the "burden of life" as pro-lifers call it)

 

[parallelluniverse]

Freedom... But what is it? Is it just like nothingness, an imaginative negation of what is, something that actually doesn't exist?

An absence of horror, perhaps?

 

[hikikomorizombie]

i don't view it as freeing, i view it as ceasing/endingthat's what i want, what is the only thing left for me atp. all of this to just cease. i'll never have to be around or interact w ppl again, or endure their stupidity. i'll never get hungry & have to find + make food, then force feed myself again. i'll never have to find another distraction to sink into. i'll never have to feel like im not really a person again. etc, etc.

sure, i could romanticize it & make it poetical & say that its freedom. it does feel like that in a way, but it objectively isn't. if i'm freed from life but am not free to do anything w said freedom (bc i'm dead), how is that freedom??

 

[Homo erectus]

An absence of horror, perhaps?

Perhaps suicide for some people is not a choice but the last resort. Euthanasia is more close to being a choice/freedom. But with that level of freedom, maybe people actually want to live than exercise it.

 

[parallelluniverse]

Perhaps suicide for some people is not a choice but the last resort. Euthanasia is more close to being a choice/freedom. But with that level of freedom, maybe people actually want to live than exercise it.

Indeed. It seems to me like the proverbial 'hidden dagger', or 'cyanide capsule in the tooth', or 'bomb under the table'. What of course gives freedom from one painful aspect of life, also takes freedom from other more pleasurable aspects of life. Total freedom then might not exist then, it's almost given to us conditionally.

 

[theboy]

I know that CTB causes great shock and trauma for family and friends but it is liberating to do so to avoid staying alive.