are you a doctor ?
but seriously, if I wasn't believing in a life after death I 100% would have committed suicide. this world is meaningless if there is nothing after death.
if death means no memory, no past, no present, complete void then there is no point in living in the first place, no matter how you think about it, so why the hell not end it and get over with it. that's what I honestly believe.
Just a lowly first year medical student who happens to be familiar with the basic pathophysiology and pharmacology of common mental disorders.
The universe is over 13 billion years old, you and I did not exist for that duration, if you can accept that, why is it so difficult to accept that one day you will cease to exist again?
And I beg to differ on the value and meaning of life, nefraiko. Value and meaning are little more than human attitudes and beliefs about our experience, that is why people can hold differences in them. And with humans, value and meaning are inseparable from scarcity and temporality – any object or experience is desired, and then valued, insofar as it is scarce and finite.
We give significance to those memories of those events which are uncommon, and forget the mundane events of everyday life by the day. And so it is with human bonds, too – for the most meaningful are those few that are hard won and hard kept. All things valuable and meaningful are the ends of human striving, never what is effortlessly attained.
The meaning of our lives are the small pearls in the ocean of our experience.
Now if experience were to be infinite, and all the things of our desires readily available, as is the case in the heaven of the Abrahamic religion, then tell me, what distinguishes the valuable and the meaningful from the mundane and worthless?
