I think a lot of people approach the whole meaningless life and suicide thing incorrectly.
I think people who are suicidal can be the most courageous because they realize that life is meaningless and so have nothing to lose.
Why not create “The Suicide Gang” and use this state of mind to do crazy things. Things that will make a difference just because they breathe life into a boring world. You can consider it stupid or pointless but so is life.
Ideas:
1) Buy a costume and walk around town in it – just wave at traffic. They don’t know who you are so have fun with it. Who cares what they think and trust me there will be a lot of people who look forward to your antics.
2) Do something dangerous – what’s the worst that can happen? Death isn’t it as you’re already considering suicide. So maybe some pain? It depends on what you do.
3) Find a group of people who are a drain on society as a whole – you may be a drain on your parents but they gave you life so sort of owe you – you didn’t ask to be born – they should have thought about the possibility that you wouldn’t be driven when they shagged and had a baby. ANYWAYS, is there a guy who drives dangerous or drives drunk in your neighbourhood? Make it your purpose to constantly undermine his ability to drive – sugar in the gas tank, flat tires etc
Got some good ideas?!?!
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Yeah, I’ve always thought that being suicidal is liberating. You don’t have to worry about paying taxes, being a productive member of society, and you sure as hell don’t have to worry about the future.
I don’t think that a suicidal person needs to be depressed. Quite the opposite, in fact. You should be overjoyed that your time here on Earth will be ending soon. I consider death a joyous occasion. Why cry just because the story ended? That’s nothing to boo-hoo about.
It’s funny when people claim to be an existential nihilist but they’re afraid of taking chances. If nothing matters, why not go for it?
Lol… I’ve done way worse than all of the above. Slept under a police car, set fire to things, wandered around town with my face painted like a warrior, got beaten up in bars, stole from a whiskey factory, broke into an army, gave a famous local rap star a gift which was in fact a jewel covered with my blood, talked to trees, worshiped a palm tree, performed a satanic ritual outside a bowling area. And that’s just the beginning
are you in the u.s.a?
the extent of my anarchist lifestyle and vehement doctrine engendered me to steal a bandaid from CVS once. fuck the police!!!111
Ah, trivial thievery. There were some people back in my high school who had a master plan to fuck with the school by pocketing the silverware they got at lunch each day instead of handing it in with their trays. Kind of a dick move, but kind of amusing, too.
This is a dangerous path. Need to maintain the ability to purchase a firearm for reliable death and to stay out of psychiatric wards. Also make sure that you have the psychological self-discipline/strength to pull the trigger and end your life after you potentially ruin it.
I lived like this for a while and ended up getting the point where I had to kill myself. But I found that I don’t have the strength to pull the trigger and end my life yet. Working on fixing that…
well soon enough people will be able to make guns at home with a 3d printer. I think you already can actually. I would be afraid of using something like that to attempt suicide though, I don’t know that I could trust my own life/death to something that came out of a printer. Who knows though what will be possible within the next few years as these technologies evolve.
I love the responses. I agree that being suicidal should be considered a sense of liberation – you’re not a slave to the “system” – you see outside of it. You are free. So don’t waste it on suicide – use it to live a life of chaos. Fuck with the system – make your mark because what do you have to lose? My items were tame for some but it’s all about your goal – if it’s just to shake things up you can do it in subtle psychological ways or blunt aggressive ways. I don’t think you should harm anyone who is innocent (ie school shooting) because there are so many ways that you can have a voice by just pushing the envelope.
In Canada we have this “Freeman of the land” en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Freemen_on_the_land and you basically tell everyone you no longer are part of society. It totally fucks with society when you live, eat and breathe the idea that society can’t “own you” and you are willing to go to jail for it. It can be exciting to face authority and not bow down to it. So before you consider suicide, consider fucking with the system first!!
I don’t see the meaninglessness of life to be liberating. Seeing life as meaningless doesn’t exclude you from going to jail or so on. It would be nice to not give a damn about everything, but unfortunately, it seems like the way that with society being set up, you kind of have to.
some of that sounds good except trying to harm someone. even if theyre annoying or wrong for doing certain things i’m not here to judge them and i dont know if they’ve had a painful life or maybe even feel worthless and fed up with not getting anywere. maybe even had it worse than i did and i’ve been bullied as far back as i can remember. not just outside my home but inside from the people i care about the most. Some people only have to deal with it in places like jobs or school, (not that it makes it alright) well how about everywere and even by people who know you been suffering from abuse from the very beginning. its enough to beg the lord to take ones life every night every day
its a good concept though. for those of you who’ve been on SP a while, have you guys ever had anything like that before like a club or something?
I’ve seen several cases of people who were at least some time in their lives suicidal or severely depressed commit serious crimes such as murder. They come to the conclusion that since life is pointless, there is nothing wrong with killing or traumatising people who annoy them. What’s sad is that they’re right.