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> Hang yourself or do not hang yourself, you will regret it either way How does one regret hanging himself?
by throwaway713 8y ago
> Hang yourself or do not hang yourself, you will regret it either way
How does one regret hanging himself?
- diminoten 8y agoBy failing to do so successfully, or by being saved before the damage is irreversible.
- icantdrive55 8y agoI knew a guy whom tried to commit suicide by shotgun. He blew the part of his brain out that controlled most of his muscles. He spent 25 years in hospital bed. His depression cleared up after his failed suicide attempt.
- ClashTheBunny 8y agoThere is no such thing as a successful suicide. Just complete and incomplete.
- diminoten 8y agoSeems like a semantic argument to me.
- yesenadam 8y agoI took it as a joke. It's a very silly and funny book, in parts.
- nicky0 8y agoThere is a opportunity for regret in the short moments after kicking the stool away.
- vollmond 8y agoPossibly quite long moments, depending on how well you prepared everything.
- m12k 8y agoKirkegaard's existentialism was religious in nature, in contrast to the later atheist existentialism of Sartre. So it's quite possible that from Kirkegaard's perspective, it could be possible to regret things after your death (or maybe it's just a joke - I haven't read Either/Or, so I'm not sure how far along toward his religious phase he was when he wrote it)
- falcor84 8y agoEither/Or is noted for presenting two perspectives, with the first volume demonstrating a hedonistic take on life, and the second a more "adult" religious take. I couldn't personally get through the second volume yet, but I plan to some day, when I'm older. In the meanwhile, I would quite recommend the first volume, which I've read twice.
- EADGBE 8y agoThere's a general consensus of immediate regret. https://abc7news.com/society/second-chances-i-survived-jumping-off-the-golden-gate-bridge/2010562/ https://abc7news.com/society/second-chances-i-survived-jumpi...
- loco5niner 8y agoSame way you wake up dead. Seriously though, one of the consistent things said by people who attempted to commit suicide by jumping from the Golden Gate bridge but survived were (paraphrasing) "At that moment, I realized that of all the problems in my life, this(jumping) was the only one I couldn't fix". At that point, when it was too late, they regretted it.