Poll: Would You Kill Yourself?

[Deleted member 87036]

You've reached the lowest point in your life. You don't have a job, a home, or anyone to aid you. The government is unconcerned about your well-being. Inflation, house prices, high medical costs, and so on are all hurting the economy.

Then one day, someone comes up to you. It's the future version of you! They have travelled through time just to make you a proposal.

"I need you to do something for me," they says.

"What is it?" You inquires apprehensively.

"Kill yourself," they pauses. "If you do it, you won't have to worry about anything for the rest of your life."

Would you kill yourself? Why? If yes, what do you think would happen to your future self?

P.S. Thank you everyone for all the really thoughtful responses!

 

[RepresentingWrath]

Nope!

 

[owotrucked]

Living is just killing oneself at a excruciating slow pace.

 

[Echimera]

In that scenario, absolutely not. So many ways to profit from contact with the future.

 

[Esper]

why would you? Killing yourself just makes it worse, you hurt family or friends you may not remember and so on, PLUS you can't fix your situation and look to the future if your dead. "Dying isn't a cope out, it's a rip off." a quote from 'the wall at challihans'

 

[Amok]

if i am in great pain shoving a shotgun down my throat is always an option. i tell myself it won't be so but one never knows what one can bear and how existence will transpire.

 

[Deleted member 54065]

I would if I could.

In fact, I did it for 11 times, all failed. I tried overdosing (I still lived), hanging myself (I got caught quickly), ramming my motorcycle (I only slid down the road) and even slashing my wrists (they still caught me). I got so tired of it that I just wanted to live and let live.

Why would I do it? Well, ever felt like your existence is only for people to remember you when you're needed? Then, in normal days, you're a wandering bad spirit. Pretty exhausting to live aimlessly, see?

They say that happiness can be found in money, or someone who loves you.

Money ain't shit. And I can't love someone till I dealt with the demons inside my head. I don't wanna raise a dysfunctional family, nor make my children suffer because of me. ??

 

[Slothy2.0]

You've reached the lowest point in your life. You don't have a job, a home, or anyone to aid you. The government is unconcerned about your well-being. Inflation, house prices, high medical costs, and so on are all hurting the economy.

Then one day, someone comes up to you. It's the future version of you! They have travelled through time just to make you a proposal.

"I need you to do something for me," they says.

"What is it?" You inquires apprehensively.

"Kill yourself," they pauses. "If you do it, you won't have to worry about anything for the rest of your life."

Would you kill yourself? Why? If yes, what do you think would happen to your future self?

I would kill myself but it wouldn't be present me. I would kill the me from the future because I wouldn't trust him. If he's me from the future there's no reason for him to profit if I kill myself. Also if he wants to die then let him die alone. And they're reason is that you "won't have to worry about anything" which is shit. If worrying is the greatest of my issues life is good. Also if there me from the future then killing them is killing myself, but what a fucking way to die. I want it to read "got stabbed by himself from like three years ago". Then in like three years another tombstone appears saying the same thing.

 

[AryaX]

I don't know what I would do if a my doppelganger appeared and tried to convince me to kill my self...

But... If it claimed to be me and/or from the future, I would at least know that this thing is lying, since time travel like that is impossible...

But... What would this thing do, if I didn't do what it wanted? kill me in some excruciatingly painful way or something?

Ignoring the doppel... I don't believe that life is inherently worth living, but rather its the good things in life that make it worth it... and if there were nothing good left, or the bad radically out weight the good, and if it seems like its unlikely for things to improve... then from my point of view, suicide seems like a perfectly logical and reasonable thing to do...

But... Then again... Just because things seem hopeless, doesn't meant that they actually are... and at least the situation you described doesn't seem anywhere near, where I might actually killing my self... You need to start throwing in things like blindness, paralysis, etc...

 

[Agentt]

Would be a fun prank to do with a twin
@Selkie wth that was too quick

 

[halfBlooming]

That's no my future self, I suppose. If they were then they should know why I'm not attempting self-killing before they arrived. My future self should at least give me a reason why, what happened to me in the near future, why they want me to die---especially why they chose right now.

My million dollar questions would be:
If at this timeline I'm already hopeless, which is why my future self time travelled to convince me to die--what makes them chose me instead of my younger self so that we can avoid dead-end future? What made them so full of despair that they even need to time travel just to say this to their past version?

More importantly, I assume they would have already prepared a way with the least pain and least consequences for other people after I died.

 

[Slothy2.0]

I would if I could.

In fact, I did it for 11 times, all failed. I tried overdosing (I still lived), hanging myself (I got caught quickly), ramming my motorcycle (I only slid down the road) and even slashing my wrists (they still caught me). I got so tired of it that I just wanted to live and let live.

Why would I do it? Well, ever felt like your existence is only for people to remember you when you're needed? Then, in normal days, you're a wandering bad spirit. Pretty exhausting to live aimlessly, see?

They say that happiness can be found in money, or someone who loves you.

Money ain't shit. And I can't love someone till I dealt with the demons inside my head. I don't wanna raise a dysfunctional family, nor make my children suffer because of me. ??

"They say that happiness can be found in money, or someone who loves you." Here's my issue with this statement, both of these are external factors of happiness. They can make you happy sure but neither are necessary to be happy and fulfilled. I'm happy right now sitting alone in my room shit posting on scribblehub. A happiness that doesn't need money or other people. I understand that it's not just that simple. Depression is just as much the absence of happiness then just sadness. When experiencing clinical depression even simple things like comfort food that should make you happy won't. It's hard but I think it's still important to remember happiness is internal. You decide if your happy.

 

[Deleted member 54065]

"They say that happiness can be found in money, or someone who loves you." Here's my issue with this statement, both of these are external factors of happiness. They can make you happy sure but neither are necessary to be happy and fulfilled. I'm happy right now sitting alone in my room shit posting on scribblehub. A happiness that doesn't need money or other people. I understand that it's not just that simple. Depression is just as much the absence of happiness then just sadness. When experiencing clinical depression even simple things like comfort food that should make you happy won't. It's hard but I think it's still important to remember happiness is internal. You decide if your happy.

Our culture is different. If you're in my community, you'll always get bombarded by 'You're 30+ you should get a wife, and form a family."

And the fucking pressure is depressing. I keep telling these people that as long as I can't deal with my issues, I won't form a family.

And the fuckers would only add to the depression by saying things about you. I know what you say, I'm 'clinically bi-polar'. And I take depakote and aripiprazole for medications.

But will these people understand? The pressure, no matter how I try to ignore it, can kill.

 

[Erysion]

Copying my answer from NUF because I am lazy.

Spoiler

I fail to see the point why my future self would travel to the past just to tell me to die. I already know my time in this world is limited, especially after knowing the people responsible for my safety are more interested in personal gain while being blinded by decades of grudge at the same time. My future self might as well face the sun and ask, "Are you the sun?"

 

[Slothy2.0]

Our culture is different. If you're in my community, you'll always get bombarded by 'You're 30+ you should get a wife, and form a family."

And the fucking pressure is depressing. I keep telling these people that as long as I can't deal with my issues, I won't form a family.

And the fuckers would only add to the depression by saying things about you.

I can see how that pressure would be depressing. And your right in that I wouldn't understand, I'm still 17 so legally can't even fuck.
Although if you're willing to listen to a younger take on things I say fuck them. That's definitely much easier for me to say not knowing any of these people but that's how much I think they're opinions matter. Your sense of self worth Is something only you can change. You can base it upon others but you still choose it yourself...

Man I sound preachy and honestly I don't know shit. Sorry if I just kinda ranted. If it makes you feel better though you seem nice to me. A lot of people have a tendency to attack others who disagree, even I do. But I didn't feel attacked by your reply and that puts you already above the entire comment section of Webnovel. Thank you.

 

[Deleted member 54065]

I can see how that pressure would be depressing. And your right in that I wouldn't understand, I'm still 17 so legally can't even fuck.
Although if you're willing to listen to a younger take on things I say fuck them. That's definitely much easier for me to say not knowing any of these people but that's how much I think they're opinions matter. Your sense of self worth Is something only you can change. You can base it upon others but you still choose it yourself...

Man I sound preachy and honestly I don't know shit. Sorry if I just kinda ranted. If it makes you feel better though you seem nice to me. A lot of people have a tendency to attack others who disagree, even I do. But I didn't feel attacked by your reply and that puts you already above the entire comment section of Webnovel. Thank you.

Err...I'm not attacking those who disagreed with my views. I'd only go on attack once the name-calling started, and even then, I'm 50-50 on taking the bait, or not.

Besides, I understand where you're coming from; it's also my philosophies in life.

But yeah, with constant pressure, someday and somehow, you'd find yourself at the end of your wits dealing with unreasonable, narrow-minded people.

However, they're just a part of my woes. My main problem is dealing with the demons in my head, brought forth by my condition. I always struggled about killing myself again. But yeah, I guess I'd like to make it count this time (that's why I also became a human rights lawyer. At least, I die with meaning ??)

 

[BlackKnightX]

I’d look at my future self and say, “Alright. But this has to be a fair exchange. You do something for me and then I’ll do something for you.”

My future self would look confused for a moment but give in anyway. “What is it that you want?”

“From this second onward to your timeline,” I’d say, “tell me all of the winning lottery tickets’ numbers, and when the time’s right, I’ll kill myself for you. Deal?”

I’ll leave the rest to your imagination…

 

[Ymadthepirate]

How much money we talkin?

 

[georgelee5786]

Nope. I'd tell my future self to go fuck himself. Then hastily mention that I meant that figuratively.

 

[Maze_Runner]

You've reached the lowest point in your life. You don't have a job, a home, or anyone to aid you. The government is unconcerned about your well-being. Inflation, house prices, high medical costs, and so on are all hurting the economy.

Then one day, someone comes up to you. It's the future version of you! They have travelled through time just to make you a proposal.

"I need you to do something for me," they says.

"What is it?" You inquires apprehensively.

"Kill yourself," they pauses. "If you do it, you won't have to worry about anything for the rest of your life."

Would you kill yourself? Why? If yes, what do you think would happen to your future self?

How old are you in this situation?