If you could push a button and simply cease to exist, would you press it?

i think a less heavy question that would allow people who want to answer yes to do so could be something like
"if your health plan could get you an operation that would make you never sleep ever with no health consequences, would you opt out?"

"life is precious" "don't say that, you'll upset the utterly miserable" "what harm could it do, they're already miserable to begin with!" "good point! why are we talking about this let's have sex and then throw pottery"

― flopson, Friday, October 12, 2012 3:15 PM (8 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

lol

cancel yes.

wow this thread is pretty intense, my answer is a definitive 'no' fwiw, extreme unrelenting physical pain and/or maybe debilitation is the only thing i can imagine of thatd make me want to magical suicide, tho im sure there are all sorts of unimagined things lurking out there

so you guys answering no, would, given the choice, never sleep?

"There are all sorts of unimagined things lurking out there. Pretty intense!"

-- Bob Marley --

haha

it is very presumptuous to tell people that life is precious

no, no it's not. or at least, it's equally as presumptuous to get on a low horse about it just because you make an opposite contention.

i sympathize w/forks life is beautiful argument even if i do find his version a bit desperately over scheduled, but to me i feel like theres some sense of appreciation thats deeper than beauty which is maybe a lil too overtly binary

I love falling asleep, but what's the point to BEING asleep? You can't remember it/don't experience it, or at least I don't. If it wasn't necessary for basic health it would be a waste of time for sure.

so you guys answering no, would, given the choice, never sleep?

If I could remove my need for sleep without going insane, I would do it in a heartbeat.

sleep is awesome, fuck the haters

my only concern with not sleeping would be that maybe I'd need to increase the dosage on my SSRIs due to spending more hours awake, which come to think of it I have to go take those

i like sleep, and eating, feel like theyre p central to the feeling of being alive, might be kinda effed to give that up

would u replace your sleeping hours with leisure tho? or split it b/w work & leisure? extra eight hours to chill out or read every day would be cool but u might just end up using it like doing chores

i waste so much time as is i doubt id do anything too compelling w/those extra hours

yeah same here

there are people who do polyphasic sleep and sleep like 30 minutes every four hours. they all go crazy

how would you ever reset a bad day, sleep is like a magical button you push when youre not in the zone

xpost

but that's because they only end up sleeping 3 hours a day! ;)

i like the downtime my brain and body get from sleep. i often don't get enough, though, because there's too much to do -- i'd prefer a 28-hour day so that there's more time to sleep if necessary.

I would never not live it

Unless I've missed an ILXor being an immortal, this is not an option. I didn't mean to imply above I'd push it anytime soon, but it would be nice when one were old and fading fast to pick a good day for dying.

would you push a button and make yrself immortal

only if I also stopped aging

As to sleep, I think I shall Viking the fuck out of some this weekend.

guys check this out i'm gonna wish for more wishes

I'd only want to be immortal if I also got to go hang out in some sort of transcendental plane where everything was awesome all the time and there was no heat death of the universe to worry about

http://11.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_kueb3lb5h51qzv9mho1_500.jpg

love to be immortal, always think the downside is philosphically overstated

al this is a scarcity problem you can't just go oh i'd like to live for 100 billion years i think that'd be ideal i'd nap every other millenia

i enjoy sleep but if i were someone who didn't i think it would be nice, it always takes me too long to finish books & if i could just blast thru them overnight without suffering repercussions the next day i would take the opportunity

I don't want to die but I also would be freaked out by living for millions of years

would you push a button and become a god

no one realizes that the average human lifespan was once only 14 hours. people back then, in their final hour, would often think about how crazy it would be live for a month. we ARE living for millions of years right NOW, in a sense, compared to those people, and we're not freaking out. people adapt man

but once you get to explore space and hang out with other civs, it would be cool

with all ur power

I also would be freaked out by living for millions of years

Yeah 'cause you'd end up falling in love with Andie McDowell

I wld live for a million years if each month of each year would pass by as quickly as like, say, a second

nah you'd become a starchild and go to a shittily decorated room

people would come up to me and point and say "there stands the slowest person in the world" but of course it would sound like high pitched unintelligible squeaking to me

I think human quest for immortality will have to keep scaling up slowly; Kurzweilian singularity would just upset everyone

What about a button, or machine, that when you enter it, you play out the rest of our life in a virtual state where everything plays out in the most positive possible way. You wouldn't even realise it wasn't real and you were guaranteed that everything in your life were to pan out in utter bliss. Would you do it?

― where is el airoporto? (dog latin), Friday, October 12, 2012 1:17 PM (1 hour ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

only if the machine also chopped up my body and sprayed bits of me into the faces of everyone who's ever loved me

i mean, let's raise the stakes here

"Music was so much better in the 2070's. Fuckin' hell."

people would come up to me and point and say "there stands the slowest person in the world" but of course it would sound like high pitched unintelligible squeaking to me

this must be what life is like for starfish, which are, in a way, "starchildren of the universe"

sprayed bits of me into the faces of everyone who's ever loved me

There goes my crush on goole...

we used to play a game in the car where we imagined having a button that when we pressed it [something would happen], often what it would do would be to make mcdonald's chicken mcnuggets appear in the car for us to enjoy or for a magical tunnel to open up in front of us and take us straight home

so what I'm saying is there's way cooler shit to accomplish with a magic button

Today it might simply consist of a button to make all my co-workers simply cease to exist...

great thread btw

it appears WCC is through with it now, but it is impossible to wall off this discussion from consideration of suicide. the scenario is about suicide + magic

I would love a button to make my coworkers turn into gin and tonics.