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astazangasta · 2016-06-02 05:06:46+00:00

We wish for death. (This is identical to wanting to be God.)

elhudy | karma 823 | avg karma 2.13 · | 2019-04-23 17:46:49+00:00

It is necessary to have wished for death in order to know how good it is to live. ;)

kachnuv_ocasek | karma 2068 | avg karma 5.96 · | 2011-01-16 10:09:03

The last thing you want to do is to die.

rooshdi | karma 1712 | avg karma 2.98 · | 2013-06-09 15:04:05

We all have to die someday. Might as well die for something.

verysoftoiltppr | karma -4 | avg karma -0.24 · | 2013-01-13 01:58:59+00:00

The objective of life is dying.

hackingthelema | karma 125 | avg karma 2.72 · | 2022-01-06 11:41:17

That's a pretty grim statement. You want everyone to die? Would you mind unpacking this a bit?

I'd like this material existence I am currently experiencing to have no end (i.e., I hope I never die), so this comes as a shock. I can understand not wanting yourself to live forever, but wanting everyone to die?

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wussboy | karma 1468 | avg karma 2.51 · | 2023-02-09 12:14:56

The problem is that we don’t want to die. That instinct can be ruthless, even when it doesn’t make sense.

sneak | karma 23753 | avg karma 1.62 · | 2011-09-22 06:49:53+00:00

If I must die, I hope to die as an integer as well.

sanxiyn | karma 14687 | avg karma 3.61 · | 2015-01-05 11:19:53+00:00

Do you want to die?

Of course we will want to. I am sure there will be lots of side effects, but almost anything beats dying.

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aqsheehy | karma 168 | avg karma 1.91 · | 2022-03-01 21:07:42

I hope when I'm close to death that I think this way too.

vasco | karma 12745 | avg karma 4.47 · | 2023-01-07 12:10:47

We all have to die of something.

yarg | karma 2967 | avg karma 2.28 · | 2021-02-20 22:57:46+00:00

More than I want to die, I want not to be a part of the omnicidal stupidity that seems to define humanity.

I really do want not to die, and I see a viable path forward with that as a result.

An illegal and seasonal path.

I last took a dose in July, and those malignant fucking thoughts are returning.

And nurses keep telling me that psilocybin clearly has not worked (all the while advocating a pill a day, pill a day, pill a day).

If you see a drowning man take a gasp of air, and the keep right on drowning that does not mean that the air did not work.

The system is fucked - but try not to let it eat you.

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JoshTriplett | karma 44606 | avg karma 4.76 · | 2012-08-26 04:56:10+00:00

That sounds nice and tidy in the abstract. Make it more concrete: do you, personally, want to die to fulfill some perceived evolutionary imperative? If so, feel free. I don't, ever.

Aelinsaar | karma 1826 | avg karma 1.76 · | 2016-07-15 01:01:48+00:00

We're going to die.

thatfrenchguy | karma 3514 | avg karma 2.91 · | 2018-11-29 04:51:34

Yes but none of us want to die.

ChrisRR | karma 3054 | avg karma 2.86 · | 2023-11-10 05:19:35

I think you overestimate how common common sense is

And it's not a death wish. I think a lot of us realise that we probably don't offer a net positive to this earth, that our individual existence probably uses more resource than it provides. So technically that means that the earth would be better off without us, but that's not a death wish. We're not saying we're actively going to kill ourselves

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swombat | karma 44155 | avg karma 6.85 · | 2009-08-14 01:34:08+00:00

Fine. Those who want to die, be my guest. Those of us who want to live forever, we'd like the option anyway, please.

nnoitra | karma 151 | avg karma 0.38 · | 2022-01-08 12:33:59

Why do we have to die?

DefaultUserHN | karma 124 | avg karma 0.51 · | 2016-07-31 21:16:03

So... a very store desire to live (so that you don't hurt the ones you love).

holri | karma 1463 | avg karma 1.87 · | 2020-02-25 06:30:08

They prefer to die instead?