Post by Deleted on Sept 14, 2017 13:23:29 GMT
Sept 14, 2017 11:27:23 GMT @mellomoviereview said:
Three Questions pertaining to Suicide.1. Why aren't more people committing suicide? Fear of not existing, fear of eternal damnation, or fear of the unknown?
2. If you knew there was an afterlife, better than this world would you do it?
3. What is the difference between someone willing to commit suicide and someone who cannot go through with it?
b) It is very difficult to overcome one's own biological programming with regards to doing harm to oneself. People may not have the degree of learned fearlessness which would enable them to commit suicide (this is studied and verified).
c) Many people believe that suicide will be trading off a finite lifetime of suffering for infinite torture at the hands of their deity or the devil
d) Many people believe that it is their duty to stay around for family and friends.
e) Many people hold on to futile hope of things improving (I knew one guy who was very depressed who didn't want to kill himself because he didn't want to finish his life having never been happy and never been in a loving relationship).
f) People are superstitious about non-existence.
2. I would still be constrained by points a and b. But if I had ready access to a means to commit suicide, then I'd do it regardless.
3. Learned fearlessness is the main one, although other factors may include being unhampered by religious or superstitious beliefs, or not feeling that it is one's duty to suffer in order to spare others suffering.