Comment by saiya-jin
3 years ago
It really, really doesnt have to be that complex. If people are religious nuts to believe suicide would bring them to some religion's hell (it won't, since it doesn't exist even if their variant of god(s) would exist), there are tons of ways to pass out rather quickly and not fulfill that criteria, and not bother anybody with the process (various car/train jumpers or suicide-by-cop doers whom I consider utter selfish a-holes).
Walk out to a storm or blizzard not equipped for it. Go fight a bear or lion or crocodile. Go for a swim that you can't come back from. Do some high risk type of adventure that in high age is not even discussed. If you make it, great experience, move to next one.
The list is literally endless and can be done in some form even by quadriplegics. It allows you to plan goodbye and closures, wills etc. The fear and pain and suffering is concentrated into such a tiny sliver of time compared to dying discussed its uncomparable.
It just takes balls to accept that this is it, what mattered for you in life is over, and now its time to think about your closest ones and not yourself. Like a breakup, many will continue living in bad relationship since its a small amount of pain and evil every hour, every day. Instead of standing up and walking off to uncertainty and freedom.
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