Assisted Suicide - Yay or Nay?

[Leftimies]

Not to split hairs (I'm glad you're here) but how do you know that the other side isn't so much better? A paradise?

Death and Life are equally reality. They are both pure existence - difference being that Life is perceptive existence, emergence of consciousness; Death is without perception, disintegration of consciousness.

There is nothing to be sought "on the other side". There is no other side. Only this one.

 

[BSM1]

Death and Life are equally reality. They are both pure existence - difference being that Life is perceptive existence, emergence of consciousness; Death is without perception, disintegration of consciousness.

There is nothing to be sought "on the other side". There is no other side. Only this one.

Not saying you're wrong but if there is no "other side", nothing to aspire to, then why bother going on? What do you hope to accomplish?

 

[Leftimies]

Not saying you're wrong but if there is no "other side", nothing to aspire to, then why bother going on? What do you hope to accomplish?

There is plenty of things to aspire to, and death validates them as valuable. It is the very finiteness of life, which makes things therein valuable; was there no end to our life, there would be no prioritising, there would be no right or wrong.

Whether or not we live forever is no basis for aspiration; but the knowledge that others will follow, who will enjoy joy, sadness, euphoria, sorrow, jealousy and generosity - that is what, for me at least, is source of huge aspiration. It is the continuity of humankind that is our only immortality, and we are all kindred spirits in one way or another. Isn't that continuity worth nurturing according our best capability?

Isn't that source for astonishing motivation?

 

[BSM1]

Whether or not we live forever is no basis for aspiration; but the knowledge that others will follow, who will enjoy joy, sadness, euphoria, sorrow, jealousy and generosity - that is what, for me at least, is source of huge aspiration. It is the continuity of humankind that is our only immortality, and we are all kindred spirits in one way or another. Isn't that continuity worth nurturing according our best capability?

So you're saying that there is nothing to go to but there is something to come from? Isn't this cross purposes? Or could it be that you are simply recycled?

 

[Leftimies]

So you're saying that there is nothing to go to but there is something to come from? Isn't this cross purposes? Or could it be that you are simply recycled?

Cycle of Emergence and Disintegration of consciousness - fluctuation. Recycling in a sense, yeah.

 

[SkepticThinker]

Not saying you're wrong but if there is no "other side", nothing to aspire to, then why bother going on? What do you hope to accomplish?

If this is the only life we get, then that is more than enough reason to "bother going on." From my point of view, the better question would be, if there's some fantastic life waiting for you on the "other side" somewhere, why bother going on with this life?

 

[Revoltingest]

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