What do you think? If I kill myself, will that action earn me a one-way ticket to hell?
My quality of life is zero. I suffer from both mental and physical pain, and things are getting worse with each passing year 🙁
Thank you for reading and replying to my post. It means a lot.
12 comments
absolutely not!
How much do you worry about hell Martin1987? And why?
I worry about hell a lot. I don’t want to spend my whole eternity there, but on the other hand my life on this earth is next to unbearable. I worry about hell because I have strong believes that suiciders go there. I hope I’m wrong, oh God I hope so. Also I have and never did had any purpose in life. My whole life was friendless and relationship-less. On top of all that I’m a burden to everybody. All my existence since my earliest childhood has been totally pointless.
The whole concept of Hell is a bit dodgy to me. If there is a personal God somewhere out there it doesn’t make sense that he would get mad at suiciders. None of us asked to be born. We are just trying to make the best of it. It would be like getting mad at someone who threw away a gift you have them, that they never asked for in the first place. All in all, a dick move for a God. And it seems wrong for God to be that petty.
No, I worry that consciousness is simply a result of the chemical reactions in our brains. And once you switch off the brain the consciousness evaporates and we simple cease to be. In the same way that water vapor isn’t really water. Then that means where we are now was probably our only shot at consciousness and our only shot at having a mind and with it some control over, well, anything.
What if this is all we get to be?
If I had to choose between the eternal torments of hell and nothingness. I would choose the nothingness in a heartbeat.
I partially agree with what Fire Bad said. After our brain dies, logically that’s the end of our human life. We lose our memories, knowledge, skills, identity, everything. Things like heaven and hell were taught to you (and me) at a young age. Religion keeps people in line, and gives hope, purpose, and inspiration when times are dark.
It also makes people fear death and some sort of “judgement.” All I know is that if I came into existence once (for whatever reason), I can come into existence again on Earth or some other place of being. Who I be or where I exist next is for the most part unknown. I do believe that we have nothing to fear about suicide because even at the cellular level there is suicide (apoptosis). Suicide really is just a form of death and death itself is completely natural. Neither nature, Earth, the universe, or this reality judges our deeds and actions. It is only ourselves.
I assume an afterlife for us would be personal and dreamlike (I hope). When we sleep, we’re as good as dead, but during that time we can exist and be conscious in an alternate reality. Now if you’re aware, this dream world can be a paradise, but if you let your mind (or possibly soul) focus on negative things like hell, pain, and torture you’ll likely create that for yourself. If we retain our memory and identity in an afterlife, we may feel guilt and shame for what we did to our loved ones. Don’t. They’ll join us in death one day too, and if we see them again, we can ask them to let what happened on Earth stay on Earth and in the past.
In the off-chance there is a god judging you, you can ask him or her to do the same on the grounds that you didn’t know what you were doing on Earth in the first place (FYI you didn’t sign up for this), that you were suffering, couldn’t handle the weight of the world anymore, and wanted peace. Easy, understandable, reason to me for suicide.
I would choose nothingness too, but that’s a rational thought that calms a rational thought. Thinking hell couldn’t be eternal is a rational thought that calms an irrational fear.
Nothingness for me please.
Hey Rider,
Nice. I didn’t know about apoptosis and it is really interesting.
But when you said to leave on earth what happened on earth it made me feel that in some level what happens here will ever remain as what happened here… and it sounded kind of eternal in a strange way…ya
Anyway, interesting 🙂
u know, whenever I think of killing myself, I think of dying and suddenly waking up in hell. That’s what keeps me alive
I personally don’t believe in hell. But I don’t think that what you do in this life should leave consequences in the next one… If that makes sense (haha couldn’t figure out how to word it)…
I would has no I think we r living in hell
You will indeed go to hell! Perhaps if you prerecord yourself asking for forgiveness for suicide and play it on a loop as you commit the act, you know as a soundtrack of sorts, and your god will forgive you.