L0st_St0ker

I'v noticed noone seems to be posting on these formums anymore which is a shame because this is my favourite topic so I thought i'd try and get some conversation started.

Sometimes I think to myself, do we only live this life to stay alive because we're scared of death because we don't know what happnes after?
A lot of people in this world are quite miserable their whole life but still keep on doing the things they need to do to stay alive. I am not one of these people but I wonder if we ever somehow find out what happens when we die and it's something like a better place would you kill yourself without a second thought?
Is this why we don't know what happens after we die?

troublemaker_42

Hmmm......who is to say that what happens when we die is the same for both those that die as fate intended,and those who take their own life? Just because dying one way leads to a certain result doesn't mean that every death will end with the same result. Maybe those that choose to die are damned forever, while those that live the life that was inteneded for them are somehow rewarded. I persoanlly would't bet the farm on there being just one after death option. I believe the way you live your life, and the way you die may all play a part in the afterlife.

MickityMike

Maybe it's just instinct that humans have a general aversion to suicide?

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Niteshift

I think suicide is generally a very selfish act.

I can understand someone who is suffering from a debilitating or terminal disease, but most of the time it's for selfish reasons.

My son would be enough to keep me from doing it.

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Zilos

Nahhh, I could never. I just enjoy life too much, in good and bad times, it's all part of life, and I can most definitely wait till I die of old age to find out what's next, if anything.

-Peace

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L0st_St0ker

Interesting concept troublemaker but think of it this way. Is that not an idea/beliefe you've given yourself to make you more motivated to live this life which has no purpose apart from enjoyment.

Mickety Mike, say you knew you could be in a better place if you died do you really think that this 'instinct' for surviaval would stop you from puttin a bullet through your head to make your life better? (let's say you hated life and didn't care that any loved one would greif over your death)

SonicDaChronic

i totally agree with u there man, i believe that everyones death is different, i believe ur happy in ur own way see ur relatives or whatever it is that happens. but i also think that maybe when u become the "god" of this new world. in the movies when someone dies u see them usually walking by themself through a field of luscious grass and beautiful trees and lakes etc, what if it was true and u were the new creator of this world and had to start from scratch and create things to exist and balance, thus being ur perfect eternal happiness as U r the one who creates it

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Mishiro

The last movie my grandma saw was Scary Movie 3, with me... sorry grandma.
But when she was on her deathbed I played and sang Let it Be for her (because it was programmed in the keyboard) and she said "Where ever I'm going, I hope they sing as good as you." Well, I watched her die, and when it finally happened, I heard "Let it Be", clear as day in my mind. Wow.

RIP Grandma

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Burninbrooke

MAMA!!! YOU HAVE A BOXER!!! We are proudly owned by a flashy fawn boy named Clint. Now back on topic, I don't think I would ever kill myself. I suffered from depression before and even contemplated it in my teens, but quite frankly I think my fear of death at that age kept me from doing anything. Now I live for my children (and my doggies) and couldn't imagine being selfish enough to put them through that. I would however die in a second for my children.

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teufelfisch

I am incredibly strongly opposed to suicide. Even if I knew that the next life was better (something I was raised to believe anyway), I would never commit suicide. Everyone should live their lives as fully and passionately as possible until God or Nature or another human or whatever takes it from them.

I have a scar on my left arm promising life.

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