If one has followed the inquiry thus far and is seeing the true context of death as simplyan ending, which it is, which you wish to postpone for as long as you can since you lack a backbone,
then one puts a reasonable question, if i know there is biological death always lurking around the corner and all your BS is gonna leave you with nothing but sh## in your hands, then why doesn't the human end (psychological death) its weasel-ly-ness. Right.
To end it now! Because that's what biological death will do/does. You won't have a chance to negotiate/weasel out of, as much as want to. So the question then becomes, what is it to die. For example, to all your fears, to your prejudices, to your nonsense. — skyblack
That's what I'm saying. The only reason people IMO live is survival instinct because to me death just makes more logical sense. Never having to do good things, or worry about bad things, it all ends. So why put it off?
I feel like everything used to justify the will to keep going is more just our survival instinct trying to rationalize things. — Darkneos
Death does afford a peace, in a sense, even if you can't feel it. — Darkneos
You can rest knowing the pain will pass and you won't have to do anything anymore. — Darkneos
I think you are giving death less than it is. — Darkneos
Why deal with one's pain when they can just quit? You're still missing the point here trying to find something "Wrong" and that's the mistake you make as much as anyone else does. — Darkneos
Nothing in life IMO is worth working for when one doesn't have to live. — Darkneos
You still aren't getting it. — Darkneos
Inertia.So why put it off? — Darkneos
Again making the mistake in thinking there is something wrong. — Darkneos
You'd think it'd be easy and I do too. Trust me when I say I've googled painless ways to die — Darkneos
Are there states worse than death ? So that death is to be sought ? My position is yes. — Pie
What’s so awful about pain? Why is some pain worse than death? — Xtrix
What’s so awful about pain? Why is some pain worse than death? — Xtrix
Death is the ending of life, not a state. — unenlightened
Because I'm not a coward. Lots of things in life will try to tear you down and end you. All the cells inside of you fight every day to keep viruses and bacteria at bay. They fight to do their jobs, and live. You spit on that. All the people who spent time and effort raising you to continue life. You spit on that. The fact that you have the gift of sentience when so much matter in the universe will never have it. Its absolutely a waste to throw that away when you should fight for it. — Philosophim
Is it absurd to prefer the anesthesia ? — Pie
What’s so awful about pain? Why is some pain worse than death?
— Xtrix
The questions make no sense. — unenlightened
The rest of your post is Buddhist cliche. — Xtrix
This projection of self into the future of years of mediocrity and meaningless routine and general discomfort, followed by the death one fears, is what fills and poisons the present, — unenlightened
To get up in the morning, wash and then wait for some unforeseen variety of dread or depression. I would give the whole universe and all of Shakespeare for a grain of ataraxy.
My faculty for disappointment surpasses understanding. It is what lets me comprehend Buddha, but also what keeps me from following him.
I am enraptured by Hindu philosophy, whose essential endeavor is to surmount the self; and everything I do, everything I think is only myself and the selfs humiliations.
In the fact of being born there is such an absence of necessity that when you think about it a little more than usual, you are left—ignorant how to react—with a foolish grin
The same feeling of not belonging, of futility, wherever I go: I pretend interest in what matters nothing to me, I bestir myself mechanically or out of charity, without ever being caught up, without ever being somewhere. What attracts me is elsewhere, and I don't know where that elsewhere is.
Three in the morning. I realize this second, then this one, then the next: I draw up the balance sheet for each minute. And why all this? Because I was born. It is a special type of sleeplessness that produces the indictment of birth.
— E.m Cioran- The a Trouble with Being Born
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