I currently believe that the best thing that can happen to our planet is to be struck by a gamma ray burst. I’m not an astrophysicist, but I presume that most of the atmosphere would be boiled off into space, and that over half of the planet’s surface would be fried. Thus most people would be cooked, and the rest would suffocate. I daresay a few lucky individuals and groups would get into bunkers in time, but these people could never repopulate the planet; rather, they would merely eek out a claustrophobic and rodent-like existence for as long as their oxygen and tinned supplies could […]
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I’ve noticed that the posts on this site are rather like the people who post them; they appear before us, they display wretchedness, and then they sink into obscurity, forgotten.
Two (good) reasons why they oppose suicide are (1) the effects on family and friends, and (2) the risk of it failing, potentially leading to spastication. These factors are well known to everyone here.
But even if someone had no human connexions and had a sure method, the masses would still oppose his/her suicide (unless he/she was in constant pain, maybe). It is their opposition to this “pure” suicide that I’m talking about in this post.
There is no reason why the self-cessation of a life (human or whatever) is intrinsicly a bad thing. There is no god to be angry, there is no “cosmic purpose” that […]
I’m 29 today, and as per recent years, I’m depressed on my birthday. Why? Because nothing happens, apart from me sitting on my bed in the basement of my family home which is where I’ve been living a vegetable-like existence for several years now.
I’m unemployed. I failed at University (as an undergrad and then a postgrad) and I can’t get a job. All my efforts are in vain. (And no, I don’t want a career in sales or hr/management!)
I’ve got almost no social life. I let that shrivel up when I realised that all people talk about is trivia, their problems, and the world’s problems. […]