Thought experiment: Terminal Illness

[JinnDX]

Thought experiment: You have been diagnosed with a terminal illness. In excatcly 1 month you will drop dead.

You don't have to worry about ctb methods anymore. How to do it, where to do it, when to do it…

What do you do with 1 month left?

 

[WorthlessTrash]

Celebrate, Hit on random women i wouldn't have the courage to otherwise, donate my money to the MSPCA, and celebrate some more.

Sad, isn't it?

 

[Ligottian]

Try to figure out the best way to blow my savings.

 

[JinnDX]

Try to figure out the best way to blow my savings.

Drugs?

 

[FuneralCry]

There is nothing at all that I want to do. I just want to be gone. I would spend the time being glad that all my suffering will be coming to an end. All life is meaningless anyway, what is the point to doing anything if I will soon be dead.

 

[YourNeighbor]

During the last month of terminal illness, you will most likely be lying in bed crapping yourself.

Goobers here should stop romanticizing terminal illness. It's a terrible thing to endure.

 

[sueoffside]

a lot of partying

 

[JinnDX]

During the last month of terminal illness, you will most likely be lying in bed crapping yourself.

Goobers here should stop romanticizing terminal illness. It's a terrible thing to endure.

Not in my thought experiment!

 

[Musketeer]

I'd spend that month getting away from everyone else i want to die alone, with no attachments.

 

[YourNeighbor]

Not in my thought experiment!

Yes, it is. What in the world do you think the last month of terminal illness looks like? It is misery and suffering, not YOLO partying, orgies, and skydiving.

 

[WorthlessTrash]

Yes, it is. What in the world do you think the last month of terminal illness looks like? It is misery and suffering, not YOLO partying, orgies, and skydiving.

Relax. Its just a coping mechanism.

Having a TI would definitely not feel pleasant, I agree.

 

[Al Cappella]

Well, assuming this mysterious illness didn't affect breathing or being able to eat—I'd hit some of the finer restaurants. Maybe one of the three buffets still running after Covid. Watch some documentaries, and have some real beer.

 

[YourNeighbor]

Relax. Its just a coping mechanism.

This stupid trope pops up here regularly, and it's beyond absurd. What brings you here? What if others told you it's a reason to party or celebrate or to rejoice?

 

[WorthlessTrash]

This stupid trope pops up here regularly, and it's beyond absurd. What brings you here? What if others told you it's a reason to party or celebrate or to rejoice?

I mean, like 90% of people here, I am just done existing. Severe dysphoria just killed my will to live.

 

[surface2007]

if you have the posibility of enjoying your life now just do it. You can get sick overnight so pretend you're going to die tomorrow if it'll help you get over that day... I didn't enjoy enough before I got sick and now I can't do anything without suffering
I lived too wisely in the forecast of my future I should have more lived in a hedonistic way and have less fear and especially less take the head for things in the end that was superficial from my new point of view .. (i'm not really answer but...)

 

[Life interrupted]

Thought experiment: You have been diagnosed with a terminal illness. In excatcly 1 month you will drop dead.

You don't have to worry about ctb methods anymore. How to do it, where to do it, when to do it…

What do you do with 1 month left?

Ever seen someone with a terminal illness in their last days? I bet you never did. Ppl with terminal illnesses don't enjoy anything and are on tons of drugs to help them go through the day! So you'll spend your last month in a hospital bed wishing to die ASAP!

 

[apoptosis]

I would be so fucking happy.

I'd just do whatever I want, whenever I want, since nothing will ever matter again.

 

[locked*n*loaded]

Well, let's face it, we are ALL terminal. No, not in the way that people with TI are, but eventually we all die. And I agree with others that the last days and weeks of terminal illness are not pleasant. My sister died of metastasized liver cancer and it ain't pretty, if anyone actually thought it was. There isn't doing anything the last weeks. You stop eating and all goes down from there. You get weaker and weaker, the pain gets more intense, you get put on more medication, you crap yourself. What a party. Eventually, you're "out" but you are still alive. You're heart wants to keep beating. That's what it does. I saw her take her last breath and it took quite a while to get to that point from when she got in the bed. I've witnessed three people take their last breath. My sister, an older friend, and my mother. The older friend and my mother were from "old age", basically worn out hearts, that still doesn't just quit in an instant. The weakening heart causes a lot of other issues as you are on your way out. It's all terminal illness. There ain't no partying going on because, simply, you are unable to. You can't even go to the bathroom yourself.

 

[WorthlessTrash]

Honestly, I consider depression to be a psychological cancer if that makes sense. For all intents and purposes, it can be terminal.

 

[SofterSoftest]

For the record, I have seen people die from life-limiting illnesses, including my own mother, whom I loved dearly - to say this is a horrible way to die would be an understatement. That being said, I would still prefer dying from illness than dying from CTB. I would want to spend the last month being with people I love/care about, even if I have very little energy and I'm in pain. I'd be able to say my goodbyes without feeling like I'm abandoning people in my life. To me, that would be a gift, even though I know I would suffer a great deal.

 

[Fadeawaaaay]

Eat well. Say goodbye.

 

[Al Cappella]

Honestly, I consider depression to be a psychological cancer if that makes sense. For all intents and purposes, it can be terminal.

Jesus—what a great way of putting it…seriously…

 

[Cosmic dust]

To be really realistic, I would do nothing different, except, maybe, dropping from work. Having a short time limit would not give me extra strenght to do anything else, I already have a time timit, we all do, we are all dying right now.

Na parties or orgies, no loved ones, I would stay there, cry a lot, watch tv, maybe go to a walk once in a while and read one last book.

 

[lofticries]

Terminal illness to me is like aging but faster which i am deeply afraid of. So this would actually motivate me more into ctb. But at least to my fam it would give them a better reason to why when normie logic is applied. My parents wouldn't have to wonder if they would have just told me something to make me think twice about ctb. Since i would have been dead a few weeks later anyway. Escaping physical pain is not nearly looked down upon as escaping mental pain.

 

[Wizard999666]

Lay in bed all day, because I'm too depressed to do anything. Maybe eat more.

 

[CemetryGates]

Cocaine and Hookers my friend

 

[Chinaski]

sanctioned-suicide.net USERS: lmao gimme some of that stage 4 cancer man, inject that shit straight into my eyeball, bruh people who are terminally ill don't know how lucky they are, if that was me It'd be the like the last days of ancient Rome, also I'd tell my mom to take her own fucking garbage out, l didn't ask to be born mother fucker,

ALSO sanctioned-suicide.net USERS: i haven't had a blow job and this is the most crippling agony experienced by all of humankind do not diminish or invalidate me by suggesting otherwise

 

[outrider567]

Eat well. Say goodbye.

Yeah--With a month left, I'd just throw away the spinach and carrots, and then gorge myself on strawberry ice cream and pizza and cupcakes

Honestly, I consider depression to be a psychological cancer if that makes sense. For all intents and purposes, it can be terminal.

So true

 

[Sad_Sack]

I literally can not enjoy anything anymore. I can't even follow an episode of friends with my cognitive issues and physical pain and distraction. I would just be with my family as much as possible.