Discussion Would you be suicidal if you had been born in the prehistoric or any other age?

[WornOutLife]

I think I wouldn't because I'd have no choice but to fight for my life every single day. (animals, fighting other tribes on food, weather, etc)
Still, I bet I'd be really stressed lol.

Anyway, this era is amazing because we have access instantly to any info we're interested in but at the same time, there are more and more depressed people. It's as if humans' fate is to go crazy and destroy themselves.

What are your thoughts on this? Would you want to CTB if you had been born in any other age?

 

[dropdeadfred]

I've thought about this too. While I think I would have done better overall in a different time... it's hard to say. There are reasons to CTB in all points of history. For me, one is the simple dislike of the human species in general.

 

[All washed up]

I wouldn't, it took me 55 years to even contemplate suicide I would surely have died anyway before that in prehistoric times.
I also think depression has been a huge issue for many centuries in equally big numbers as today just unrecognized/diagnosed

 

[WornOutLife]

I've thought about this too. While I think I would have done better overall in a different time... it's hard to say. There are reasons to CTB in all points of history. For me, one is the simple dislike of the human species in general.

You got an interesting point there. I mean, we're humans but, this species sucks so much! lol

 

[FlyMe2TheMoon]

Probably not.
I think it'd be much more interesting to be free, not have any laws or anything, just be a caveman doing fuckall. Current life is full of greed and capitalism, and there's always some guy at the top who wants to see us all in a straight line, doing exactly what he says.

 

[MrBlue]

I imagine I'd be too dead to be suicidal if I lived in the prehistoric age. I was a pretty tough kid but I'm bloody tiny nowadays so probably would've been ripped to shreds by a bigger person/animal. Plus if I had the same problem intergrating as I do now I'd have probably been kicked out and died...basically the same result as now but faster (and probably from diarrhea or starvation rather than ctb!).

 

[All washed up]

Probably not.
I think it'd be much more interesting to be free, not have any laws or anything, just be a caveman doing fuckall. Current life is full of greed and capitalism, and there's always some guy at the top who wants to see us all in a straight line, doing exactly what he says.

Nah. I reckon if you were a caveman doing fuck all you'd get all sorts of shit off chief caveman and your wife hassling you to go and kill a dinosaur for supper

 

[Meditation guide]

No need to. The lifespan was under 30 years. You froze, starved, were canibalized by your tribe, or died of injuries and diseases. A wound that became infected, as most probably did, would take you out from sepsis.

 

[Ardesevent]

I'd probably have been eaten by a wolf or gotten a disease and died before I turned five, so no.

 

[TimeToBiteTheDust]

Yes because life would have been more boring without technology.

 

[AbsoluteNothingness]

Well in my case isn't the word "suicidal", i simply just don't want to live life and simply just want to not exist at all, it's not that I don't want to live 'because of a reason'/'because I'm 'suffering''/'because I'm 'depressed'' blah blah or whatever other "reason", no. So for me the word "suicidal" isn't the correct one, it has that connotation of 'not wanting to live'/'wantinf to die' because of a reason/'suffering' etc, and 'meaning'/'definition' that fits/suits all of 'you', but not 'me'. I simply just don't want to and thats it lol and never will no matter how it is/what happens/how it works/what it is about/the "established/designed/standardized/programmed/structured life" that exists etcetc. But well now answering the question, obviously i would just want to not exist at all. No matter what 'era' 'im' in. No matter what the 'times' are etc. I don't give a fck what kind/type/way of 'life' it is neither the 'times' that 'life' is 'lived'/'experienced'. It's not that "modern life"/"current life"/"modern world"/"modern society"/"this life standard" is the "problem". No lol, i couldn't care less. It's "life" in a very very general/objective way speaking, in general no matter how it is/what way it is etc, that i simply just don't have any "interest" at all in it and simply just literally don't want to experience/do it. I mean I would be killed probably by a bear or whatever anyways, i wouldn't even have to do it myself lol, definitely much easier to die back then than now lol wanting to die intentionally is hard af unfortunately in this 'contemporary world/society'. So yeah i would also want to die in 'prehistoric era' and literally any other 'age', basically no matter how it is and what happens. And well even if i was interested in 'life' and wanted to live/experience it I would be killed anyways by some animal or a disease lol

 

[InTheAirTonight]

Depression is caused by civilization, so probably not. I would have no concept of mental illness if I lived back then.

 

[Lordsudbury]

If I was born in prehistoric times I would be a warrior beast slaying ass and killing shit and fighting jaguars and providing for my hoard (horde?) And having 20 kids with all the hottest beastwomen and drawing wicked shit on walls and planting the dopest wheat and ooga booga-ing wild parties with the sickest fermented fruit that has fallen and rotten off trees

 

[Good4Nothing]

In this body, I would have been dead before puberty. But I probably wouldn't have had this body, I would have been strong from working and fighting and hunting.

It also might have been easier to find a mate, spending my whole life with one tribe. I had a girlfriend all through elementary school, from 1st grade to 6th, until my family moved away. If I had stayed, we probably would have gotten married right out of high school. I moved around so much as a kid. I think it messed me up socially.

Humans are still tribal by nature. We've been living in cities long enough, you'd think we would have adapted, but we haven't. It's unnatural for us. It's why we're depressed. We're surrounded by others, yet isolated at the same time. There's no sense of community.

 

[albino_elk]

I guess depends on a family/money/ place where i would have been born and mental health. Cuz now i was poor since i was born and no family/fucked up stepfather

 

[introspectious]

I don't know for sure but I do wonder if maybe it would have been better for this kind of thing, for example, other animals don't usually do it. And also there is some interesting stuff about depression and hunter gatherer and village societies; they usually have very low rates of depression, despite often experiencing substantial loss. I think it may come down to support systems; maybe in village societies there is less of a reliance on the nuclear family, so if your parents aren't good to you, perhaps an uncle, or at least someone in the village can help you. Maybe this is what it would have been like for humans in the prehistoric age. My problems are from my own behavior, so if I would still have made the same kind of mistakes as a prehistoric human, then maybe I would feel the same way. But then again, I do think that my mistakes were partially contributed to by being raised in a society with a lot of problems. So maybe the societies back then would have been more, let's say, practical? And maybe that would contribute to a culture with less social dilemmas?
Also, shamanism, who knows...

 

[antigone_iris]

Yes, I think I would've been suicidal, even if I lived in a past era. Even more so then, I guess. I couldn't imagine life without a decent bathroom, a decent level of comfort, that is. I would've liked to be part of a community, to spend a lot of time in nature, to have fun around the fire. I suppose I could do these things in the present as well, I just need a tribe.

 

[woxihuanni]

No. Because my circunstances that force me wouldn't exist in a tightly-knit society.

 

[VivaldiBR]

No. I would feel great. A tribal society would have a much greater sense of community than ours. In touch with the nature all day. No worries about money, carrer, comparision, social media, etc.

 

[ElegantlyWasted]

I often wish I was born earlier in the world. But not very far, just one generation before (Generation X). Maybe even early 80s. I just feel the present has been getting increasingly worse and if I had my early adult life before this I might be less inclined to ctb or at least live longer than I will now. There are a lot of factors but the state of the world today is a bigger motivator for me to do it sooner.

 

[All washed up]

I often wish I was born earlier in the world. But not very far, just one generation before (Generation X). Maybe even early 80s. I just feel the present has been getting increasingly worse and if I had my early adult life before this I might be less inclined to ctb or at least live longer than I will now. There are a lot of factors but the state of the world today is a bigger motivator for me to do it sooner.

I really do sympathise with you I was born in 1965 and think it was a great time to be born though I think the 1950s would probably have been even better.
I imagine being young today is difficult

 

[ElegantlyWasted]

I really do sympathise with you I was born in 1965 and think it was a great time to be born though I think the 1950s would probably have been even better.
I imagine being young today is difficult

It's something I fantasize a lot when thinking about after death. Probably not gonna happen but If there was parallel universes after I die if it's just me born 10-25 years earlier that would be my ideal outcome.

 

[DocNo]

i guess if only the historic age would have have changed but my family history would have been the same/similar - it would haven't changed much.

the other part is society and the system we created. also here i think it wouldn't have changed much, cause i think some core issues really didn't change as much as it seems. we just give some stuff new names.

at some point in my life i realized, that this perception of the younger years, where you think "wow - so much going on and changing" has more to do with your own development and your own change to see the world and learn new things. but in reality, lots of that history just repeats in some similar way.

 

[Deleted member 17949]

maybe but I wouldn't really be me so it's hard to answer