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i tried killing myself many times. every time, something would happen last minute that changed things, and then life seemed to have a different character afterw
by MarkPNeyer 11y ago
i tried killing myself many times. every time, something would happen last minute that changed things, and then life seemed to have a different character afterwards.
i started to wonder if i actually did succeed after the first attempt in 2005, becuase life seems so different now than it was back then.
one of the things that finally stopped my suicidal ideation was the belief that i can never actually experience death. i discovered that other people with a background in physics had the same belief - quantum immortality.
http://markpneyer.me/2014/08/13/how-i-defeated-recurrent-suicidal-ideation/ http://markpneyer.me/2014/08/13/how-i-defeated-recurrent-sui...
- Filligree 11y agoIf that really were the case, then I wouldn't be seeing your post and typing this. You still might see me do so, of course.
- murbard2 11y agoEven if you cannot experience death, but you can experience a horrible near miss with massive brain damage. For quantum suicide to work, you'd want to be completely unconscious when it happens, so that you never observe any injury.
- Inception 11y agoI've often wondered about this, but never knew there was a term for it. In the past, I've been in situations that I probably shouldn't have lived to talk about and often wondered if I really did make it out alive. Or did my perception of reality diverge from the dimension I was in and continue in a dimension where I defied the odds and lived. Thinking in terms of multiverse[0]. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Multiverse http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Multiverse