Discussion What would you like to find after you CTB?

[frommolecules2stars]

I know most of us have wondered what happens to our consciousness when we die. And I know most of us will arrive to the conclusion that it's most likely the permanent end to said consciousness. We compare it to how it was before we were born- the void.

However, if you could choose, what would you want to experience after you are done living? Would you want there to be an afterlife? Or would you just want to return to the void?

 

[TheHolySword]

nothing

 

[roommate]

I would like another chance on earth tbh

 

[Richard Langford]

My mother.

 

[sadalways]

I'd like another chance. In a different body.

 

[FuneralCry]

I don't wish to find anything, all I wish for is to permanently cease existing and never exist ever again, I just hope and wish to be unconscious for all eternity where this torturous, futile existence is all finally all gone and forgotten about, I just want peace and for me peace could only lie in non-existence, for me non-existence truly is all that's positive and desirable. I'd always prefer to not exist than suffer all for the sake of it in this existence where there is no limit as to how much agony one can feel just to be tortured by old age, non-existence really would solve everything for me and is all that can bring me any relief from this existence I always saw as the most terrible, tragic mistake, for me existence itself really is the true problem and always will be no matter what.

 

[JesiBel]

Return to the great universal 'machinery', without body, without consciousness. Just particles dancing in the vast cosmos.

 

[restingplace]

I know most of us have wondered what happens to our consciousness when we die. And I know most of us will arrive to the conclusion that it's most likely the permanent end to said consciousness. We compare it to how it was before we were born- the void.

However, if you could choose, what would you want to experience after you are done living? Would you want there to be an afterlife? Or would you just want to return to the void?

I wish for nothing, I don't want to exist or be conscious as a vessel ever again

 

[frommolecules2stars]

I don't wish to find anything, all I wish for is to permanently cease existing and never exist ever again, I just hope and wish to be unconscious for all eternity where this torturous, futile existence is all finally all gone and forgotten about, I just want peace and for me peace could only lie in non-existence, for me non-existence truly is all that's positive and desirable. I'd always prefer to not exist than suffer all for the sake of it in this existence where there is no limit as to how much agony one can feel just to be tortured by old age, non-existence really would solve everything for me and is all that can bring me any relief from this existence I always saw as the most terrible, tragic mistake, for me existence itself really is the true problem and always will be no matter what.

Lately I've begun to really agree with this sentiment. Very well written, thank you for your words.

 

[brokenreceptor]

My mother.

My mom died when I was a teenager and sometimes when I think of CTB, I also think it'll make me reunite with her. I'm not even religious or believe in heaven, especially not after she died. But I have this childish thought that I'll be with her like when she appears in my dreams.

 

[BlockHammer]

Either nothing or became a spectator. Despite my feeling of hopelesness toward the world im still curious about the direction that this world heading into

 

[Coin]

I would love to see all the loved ones I have lost already: my grandparents, my dog, and my friends who took their own lives. I would also like to be there waiting for any loved ones that pass after I do.
Only after saying my goodbyes would I want to continue to the void.
I do not practice religion and find it difficult to do so but I will admit I am envious of those who are able to believe in higher powers and an afterlife.

 

[outrider567]

I know most of us have wondered what happens to our consciousness when we die. And I know most of us will arrive to the conclusion that it's most likely the permanent end to said consciousness. We compare it to how it was before we were born- the void.

However, if you could choose, what would you want to experience after you are done living? Would you want there to be an afterlife? Or would you just want to return to the void?

Afrerlife? yes, but only if my deceased girlfriend was there

 

[wiggy]

The idea of ceasing to exist will trigger every survival mechanism in your mind, so in the moment I'll probably be hoping for some kind of reincarnation or afterlife. Thinking about it objectively, eternal existence is a lot more terrifying even in the best conceivable conditions.

 

[Hollowman]

I'm already in a void so a permanent void works for me.

 

[dimgobaith]

Nothing

 

[RiverOfLife]

Oblivion

 

[Michelstaedter]

Absolute nothingness or living in a paradise with my buns, where there is no pain, only peace and not even pleasure or a kind of worldly satisfaction, but only spiritual "being."
I would also think that living in a kind of alternate dimension where an extremely advanced and peaceful civilization makes life seen from a more spiritual point of view and even where people with serious problems, whether physical or mental, can help them "rest in peace", without the need to appeal to religion with sin or the hypocritical ethics of the society that sees us as tools and always generates fear of death.

 

[BlueButterfly111]

My boyfriend Henry, who passed away 7 months ago.

 

[ForeverCaHa]

I desperately hope to be reunited with my late partner. To wake up and this to be a horrible nightmare, to be given another chance at life with him. I've never wanted anything more than that.

 

[avalonisburning]

A quiet place to chill out and ride the waves of eternity at my own pace would be nice.

 

[Yonlux]

Eternal peace, I don't need nothing more, only peace

 

[zappynomore]

anything would be a pleasant surprise, meeting the dead loved ones again after so long would be nice. But I dont really believe in that I believe its nothing like before we were born.

It would be nice to think though that the universe gives us our wish though at the end whatever we seek and desire it to be, be it nothing or a reunion with dead loved ones, reincarnation whatever its nice I think to imagine that the universe grants us one wish and that is to get what we seek at the end.

 

[roommate]

I would like another chance on earth tbh

Actually with the amount of bullshit going on right now, never mind that lol

 

[Namelesa]

Non-existence cus there I can't feel, do, desire or feel anything so I can't suffer or be disadvantaged in any way. I just don't to have the risk of suffering again forever.

 

[Darkover]

well if life is like this on other planets with lives has shit has these lives it be better to never exist i wouldn't even want to exist like this in this shitty horrible universe to be enslaved in awful shit in a tyrannical existences far better off never existing at all

 

[lamy's sacred sleep]

godhood. where i actually have the choice to ctb at any time.

 

[dead dav]

Well would like another chance maybe not mess up next time but realistically I think death is just like flipping a switch and you just cease to exist as before you were born

 

[Igotaplane]

I grew up very religious and threatened with going to hell the moment I stepped out of line. Now that I'm an adult and have separated myself from the religion I grew up in I hope reincarnation is real, I think the idea is comforting. I don't know if I'd want to be on earth again, the entire idea of nothingness is scary to me and I can't fathom there not being a "tomorrow" because I've always had that. I think I'd like to just be a star, a burning ball of gas in the sky or atleast something non-sentient i guess

 

[pthnrdnojvsc]

One second after my brain dies it will be Non-existence forever which is the only guarantee of never suffering extremely. So only non-existence forever is the only perfection
Eternal Non-existence The only guarantee of
No bad memories, no suffering, no pain , no problems none of the 1000 other horrible nightmares In this evil life and evil world

I want for me non-existence asap

Thousands of reasons but some are to be a brain that can suffer unending constant unbearable pain

What is every one's definition even of life or you or what A human is. People probably have different answers.

To me after reading books on the brain and biology of the cell it's beyond obvious that life and a human is cells. All life evolved from a single cell. So how do cells (machines chemical reactions) create some afterlife which again is some vague concept different to most

A human is only the summary of the neural networks in the individuals brain, these neural networks change with every experience it's called learning. So there's is no constant self no constant me but an ever changing brain

I don't understand the question how can a bug me choose to violate the law of entropy and magically create some abstract concept of an afterlife that means something different to other primates.. I'm cells a machine chemical reactions no different from a fly a bug a mouse . How can chemical reactions choose to keep some state of suffering for trillions of years