What fate is worse than death?

[DivineSpark]

Being paralyzed neck down would be pretty bad. I would rather die.

 

[SadFoxDreamer83]

Living with toxic parents who insult you, shout at you and humiliate you every day. They also don't help you escape, it's like a prison with a psychological torture chamber from which you can't escape. Freedom is the most beautiful thing that exists, and I feel like it has been completely taken away from me.
I don't want to give up yet, I know that sooner or later I will be far from them

 

[DivineSpark]

Living with toxic parents who insult you, shout at you and humiliate you every day. They also don't help you escape, it's like a prison with a psychological torture chamber from which you can't escape. Freedom is the most beautiful thing that exists, and I feel like it has been completely taken away from me.
I don't want to give up yet, I know that sooner or later I will be far from them

Sorry to hear that. I dont know how it feels like. I am blessed with kind and supportive parents and family (including friends)

 

[pthnrdnojvsc]

IMO Me achieving my Death is the best thing that could happen to me ,.

Death means never existing. So that means never suffering ,zero pain ,zero problems ,no bad memories : what could be better

Non-existence forever is the only guarantee of never suffering extremely

1 microsecond after I kill my brain I will cease to exist forever. All my problems solved instantly and forever

I don't want any kind of like / existence / consciousness. Non-existence forever is the ultimate bliss. Life is hell

IMO strokes can happen to anyone any second. That Alone for me is reason enough to get out of this hell called life asap

I work 15 hours per day a job and chores only to exist as a decaying animal, and a slave under threats of extreme torture for no reason

No One can say an objective reason for why I have to live another minute or why I have to what to

There is pain so bad it makes everything else meaningless. Living as A a brain that can suffer unbearable pain, a bunch of cells , an animal , chemical reactions is beyond ridiculous. All these reasons and more sum on top of each other.

Nothing matters only avoiding unbearable pain

 

[slowdance]

Being too disabled to kill yourself

 

[SadFoxDreamer83]

Sorry to hear that. I dont know how it feels like. I am blessed with kind and supportive parents and family (including friends)

You are lucky to be from Finland, believe me.

 

[DivineSpark]

You are lucky to be from Finland, believe me.

Yup, I have many blessings in life, yet I am miserable despite all good things in life. Our mental healthcare is top notch, prices of meds affordable and such.

 

[TheHolySword]

For many here, simply living in any scenario is worse than death. For many, it's a question of if there's a fate better than death

 

[Andrew10]

this depends on the living environment of each person, different lives are different realities and there can be all kinds of luxuries and all kinds of misfortune but from my perspective I can give you an answer that perhaps relates to many here:

we are already in it, too many things happen here, each one of us here has had different events that led us to join this forum is just a tiny representation of this, too many but too many things you can lose years in making a list and in turn it is so complicated that it becomes almost impossible to try to explain it in words, but all this can be summed up in a simple way: this world

Peace.

 

[leloyon]

I've always considered being raped and/or tortured to be fates worse than death. That is, if I was faced with such a scenario and I had a reasonable chance to get myself killed instead (like, say I was being held captive at gunpoint and they made it clear what was going to happen) I would try to get myself killed rather than go through those, even if I knew for sure that, having went through them, I would immediately be free from the perpetrator's clutches and wouldn't be harmed further. I have always considered those two acts, unlike murder which can sometimes be justified in cases such as self-defense, to be completely and utterly unjustifiable in any context no matter what, no matter who it is done to.

 

[untothedepths]

my entire life

 

[NonEssential]

Being slowly tortured by a sadist

 

[MatrixPrisoner]

Living under any capacity.

 

[Languish]

Eternal life, but you still age.

 

[Skelix]

Having ID is heavy shit, I will always be tied to the mediocrity of my brain, I can't do much to change that with extra loneliness and a bundle of traumas that would take decades to resolve with several psychologists.

 

[wiggy]

I think it's a slightly misleading way of framing the question. As far as we know there is no fate that's alternative to death, the final destination is always the same no matter what happens in the meantime. If that fact were more easily digestible to general populations, I think some of the taboo around expediting death would be reduced.

 

[Kyotospade]

Being caged and tortured for the remainder of your days?

 

[Goth_tt_B]

If there is an afterlife and I don't get to be with my beloved one. I want nothingess when I'm gone. But if there is afterlife and I don't get to be with my beloved one, that would be worse than death

 

[Peace2peace]

My current situation is worse than death chronic condition sucks

 

[Eudaimonic]

Any life below hedonic zero

 

[catchthebussoonuk]

Living

 

[beseechgod]

just being alive if you're suicidal.

 

[FuneralCry]

For me non-existence is the only desirable and positive outcome but of course I only see never suffering at all as true perfection, I'd always prefer to not exist no matter what but more than anything I wish I never suffered, I wish I was never forced to suffer in this torturous, futile existence that to me is an abomination, non-existence is all I see as desirable and is all that can bring me any peace.

I'd just never wish for the burden of existing as a human and I find it so tragic how this unnecessary existence was even imposed that just causes suffering all for the sake of it and problems there were never a need for, for me non-existence could only ever be positive as after all there are no disadvantages to being permanently unable to suffer, I cannot suffer from the peace of an eternal dreamless sleep. Non-existence is all that's ideal for me, I see existence as a mistake and I'd always prefer to be permanently unconscious than suffer all for the sake of it in this reality where there is no limit as to how much agony one can feel just to be tortured by old age and die anyway, I find it horrific how a human can exist for so long.

 

[Valhala]

Being immortal in this world would certainly be the worst fate.

 

[VoidAetherium]

Immortality on existence itself around this sick universe is already a terrible fate i would never wish to have. Another is being resurrected on a worst situation or else on the same planet or another and without the memories i had about this self awareness corruption. My only hope is non existence and the totally destruction of this damn core of mine!

 

[annointed_towers]

Disability like mine.

 

[Jorvak]

Eternal life, but you still age.

I know it's a hypothetical, but that doesn't sound possible from a biological standpoint. Aging is the result of the body breaking down due to factors that eventually cause death. If you could live forever, it would suggest that the factors that cause aging are not present. If you lived an 'eternal life' but still aged, there would be a point where the body shouldn't be able to physically function, because it's too broken down to support itself.

Or in your scenario, are you imagining this?

 

[dust-in-the-wind]

Being born

 

[always_sad]

Human trafficking.

 

[cme-dme]

Getting turned into a vegetable with chronic pain sounds pretty awful. If something such as quantum immortality existed that would also be awful.