Hi-
How can you be certain that death equals ceasing to exist? Why are you certain this will occur after
death? Even based on one experience (or more) until you are actually dead, you won't know what happens.
Regards,
Paul
Cijadrachon (cijadra at zedat.fu-berlin.de) wrote:
: One of the experiences that I had that made me understand death was to
: do with too much of a drug and sectors going sort of "black" like a
: city going to a void of nothingness.
: I made me understand quite a bit what ceasing to exist is like.
: Before death did not worry me much, but after I perceived that it
: scared me.
: Someone once came to me who had tried to kill himself before and
: wanted data about consciousnesses, said pretty straight from the start
: that he might kill himself (and he did), as the last was a serious
: enough attempt and though he had been drugged with psycho-drugs and
: forced back to life, it was not what he had wanted.
: One of his friends said that if he had told him he is going to now and
: done it he might have liked to be there but he would not have
: prevented him, as the decision for or against life is an own decision.
: I believe that it is to do with balances between and within areas,
: especially the own and the two main emotion generators and with some
: also with reality perception.
: Also with certain societies.
: If you compare the suicide rates between different societies you might
: get one of the best ratings for cultures.
: Like here people are basically declared possessions of others and most
: never get enough sleep, raise with alarm clocks in unnatural cities to
: unnatural life and take drugs like caffeine to make up for too little
: sleep, and then maybe go to jobs that require unnatural behaving, to
: come home to do other unnatural tasks, in the evening sit in
: artificial ranges, and then go to bed in a room without the stars and
: the moon above and go for the same procedure again and again, year
: after year, getting older and older, and after a while of that some
: might decide that to stop to perceive is better than to go on to
: perceive.
: A look at the news and the society around might confirm then in such
: decision.
: Imagine you had parents who keep pondering if they want to cease to
: exist or not. And maybe give it a few failed attempts in between.
: Some might believe if humans go to imbalanced, maybe it is not that
: bad for the stability of humanity if they sort themselves out and
: point out how many do so before having had children and how many do so
: while having children and also point out suicide tendencies in
: teenagers reaching fertility age in surroundings that are not good
: natural ones for having children and are to do with societies where
: quite unnatural living and behaviour is expected.
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