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offline w M w from London (United Kingdom) on 2004-07-12 21:05 [#01274495]
Points: 21454 Status: Regular | Followup to rottenwool: #01274474



Animals (non-human) never have to think about this stuff.
They don't have to think what age they are. The concept is
invisible to them. They don't have to bother with
possessions. All they need is themself generally; evolution
provided what they need, that would be nice. They don't even
have to brush their teeth. Especially for the latter reason,
I want to be an animal. But the real world of animals isn't
filled with cartoon rabbits called thumper. There are
parasites and predators. The lion, hyiena etc. situation in
africa doesn't look terribly pleasant. I shouldn't say these
things because it's disrespectful to "god", whatever
miraculous algorithm type thing that is. If I am the only
one truly responsible for myself than I am fucked. That's
not true (what could be said of a nestling cannibalized by
it's nestmate for example.), to sum everything up:
"everything just is". I like typing.


 

offline qrter from the future, and it works (Netherlands, The) on 2004-07-12 21:12 [#01274499]
Points: 47414 Status: Moderator | Followup to Doomed Puppy: #01274480



I always like the idea that although most of us (except
Charlton Heston, ofcourse) will have been blown away, the
rest of nature will survive.


 

offline Doomed Puppy from on and off and on and off and on 2004-07-12 21:17 [#01274504]
Points: 1818 Status: Addict | Followup to qrter: #01274499



It's the exact opposite with me. I used to fantasize about
being the sole ruler of the universe when I realised that I
would still just be a variable in an equation. That was
acute dissillusionment.!!!!!!


 

offline tragedy from Gloucester (United States) on 2004-07-12 21:27 [#01274509]
Points: 4423 Status: Lurker



i think more people should just wait it out.


 

offline Monoid from one source all things depend on 2004-07-12 21:57 [#01274530]
Points: 11010 Status: Lurker



Suicide is awsome. I can see myself killing myself when im
30, as a lonely, drunk, poor, sockfucking virgin, i have no
reason to live.....


 

offline Motha Fucka from Selvaggina (Brazil) on 2004-07-12 22:36 [#01274544]
Points: 2038 Status: Regular



Suicide...is terrible thinks in it.
I has an collegue that killed himself cause he don´t
accepted the fac that he was gay!
Fuck!
He stayied 3 days in an fucking hospital vomiting and others
stuffs....(poison)


 

offline ecnadniarb on 2004-07-12 23:07 [#01274562]
Points: 24805 Status: Lurker | Followup to Motha Fucka: #01274544 | Show recordbag



if you are really from Germany you should meet up with
monoid, you would make a lovely couple.


 

offline happy cycling from berlin on 2004-07-13 00:00 [#01274569]
Points: 2786 Status: Regular



well, i really can't see how labels such as 'selfish' etc.
can be applied to something so absolute as suicide. it is
such an overwhelmingly momentous act that it stands, imo,
entirely beside moral considerations.

i think about it all the time. i find it hard not to, and
not just when i'm depressed -- usually because the topic
attaches itself to any profound question regarding the
nature of being. i think non-existence is very attractive.
to be conscious in the final moments -- to witness the
dissolution of any and all petty concerns, until the full
weight of being is realized, and then swiftly alleviated --
seems momentous, absolutely fantastic in implications, and
so wonderfully private -- an event entirely unspoiled by the
significance of others.



 

offline bogala from NYC (United States) on 2004-07-13 00:27 [#01274573]
Points: 5125 Status: Regular



Who is in a better position in life than I? Anyone with more
than 0 friends and or a girlfriend, or a Job. Not past 25
and still clueless about themselves. A rock star. Other too
embarresing things that I am even ashamed to mention on an
anonymous message board.. Someone who sees something
different everyday besides their front lawn. I like myself
and don't want suicide, but lot's have much around them in
their lives and do. So, maybe it's brain chemistry at play
more than anything.


 

offline bogala from NYC (United States) on 2004-07-13 00:45 [#01274576]
Points: 5125 Status: Regular



happy cycling, your assumptions about death could be wrong.
What if your conscious state continues after being buried
locked in your corpse...? Wouldn't you like to stave that
off for a while? What if your mind moves on into some other
nightmare? Or another planet..with even more green hills and
varieties of fruit..The fact that you are here at this time
gives credance to any theory of future existence.
Consciousness, although painful at times, is a fucking
miracle. It seems that the youth ponder suicide more than
anybody.... I think it's perhaps they live for themselves
and not others. I could be wrong


 

offline Ophecks from Nova Scotia (Canada) on 2004-07-13 00:47 [#01274578]
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I don't think of suicidees (!) as selfish. It's not an act I
admire, but unless you've successfully killed yourself, you
don't know what it's like, can't see where they're coming
from. Attempted suicides don't count, attention whore.

A guy just up the road here painted the walls with his
brains a month or two ago. Guy had a wife, 2 kids, nice big
house, TWO thriving businesses... tough to fathom why he did
it. Impossible to understand, so who am I to judge? Should
he have have toughed it out to improve his life? Maybe he
was, for a couple of decades. Carved a nice niche for his
life, provided for his family... who knows. ''Chemical
imbalance''? Boredom? Maybe he was framed, and he's living
the good life in Jamaica right now.

Some people aren't built for this life. Some sperm cells got
sucked into the vortex of life against their will... they
should have crashed into the vaginal walls and died.

Me, though I'm a miserable S.O.B, I could never kill
myself... there's so many little things that are SO great,
I'd rather not cut the fun times short. It's a pretty
amazing existence. And I'm one of the lucky ones that
doesn't give a shit about girls. They seem to be the
deciding factors about happiness in so many boys' lives.


 

offline ecnadniarb on 2004-07-13 00:51 [#01274580]
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So throw caution to the wind, you and a friend
Can jump off of a bridge and if you live, do it again
Shit, why not? Blow your brain out, I'm blowing mine out
Fuck it, you only live once you might as well die now


 

offline goDel from ɐpʎǝx (Seychelles) on 2004-07-13 01:13 [#01274595]
Points: 10225 Status: Lurker



For me, the idea of suicide can give relief in times of
having the feeling of having no control over my life. It
gives me my sense of control back; there's always this one
option which is completely under my control. Not that i ever
would though.


 

offline bogala from NYC (United States) on 2004-07-13 03:51 [#01274767]
Points: 5125 Status: Regular



I saw a guy on ogrish who tried to kill himself. Blew his
face off and LIVED!


 

offline pOgO from behind your belly button fluff on 2004-07-13 03:53 [#01274769]
Points: 12687 Status: Lurker



If your strong enough to kill yourself then your strong
enough to get though anything


 

offline JAroen from the pineal gland on 2004-07-13 03:54 [#01274771]
Points: 16065 Status: Regular



radiohead.


 

offline VLetr from London (United Kingdom) on 2004-07-13 04:17 [#01274794]
Points: 793 Status: Regular | Followup to ecnadniarb: #00794739



I agree that suicide is selfish, but only in that everything
a person can do is selfish because it satisfies in them some
desire present at the time of the action (even if it is a
charitable desire).

Interesting that you cite an interest in social and
biological psychology, because from a sociobiological
evolutionary perspective, suicide only makes sense as an act
of altruism. When an individual comes to believe that they
are a burden upon the wellbeing of their kin in a time of
scarce resources, their act of sacrifice may enhance the
survival of those better placed to utilise those scarce
resources. (these kin carry some of our own genes and so
ultimately even this altruism is selfish, but i don't think
you meant selfish on this level).

Of course in western societies we no longer live in such
dire circumstances, but evolution acts over 100,000 years
not 1000 years, and our brains have not adapted to this
change. So suicide can be seen as a misfiring of prehistoric
hunter-gatherer behaviour which would have enhanced the
survival of our genes in the past, but is maladaptive
today.



 

offline Matvey from Kiev (Ukraine) on 2004-07-13 05:18 [#01274813]
Points: 6851 Status: Regular



look at this shit one more time


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I can't finish myself because that will heavily depress my
parents and kick the psychic of my two younger sisters hard,
which I don't want. And, besides that, I simply don't want
to commit suicide, even when depressed a lot. Sometimes the
good way to give depression a kick is to eat something - to
cook yourself a BORSHCH or something equally good and hoover
it up the oesophagus, or down the gullet. It helps in around
57% of depression cases.


 


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