Suicide thoughts . . . just a curiosity.?

Question

Do you believe shooting yourself in the head would cause an adverse dying experience, due to neurons being interrupted, severed and destroyed? Even if the mind is a seperate element from the brain, wouldn't such a traumatic severence cause a strange or extremely damaged journey into death? And also, what effects might other types of suicide have on the death experience. Answer in respect to both belief of the afterlife and without belief of it. And one more thing, do you know any sites or forums that discuss this topic? Please try and answer or give a thought on all of these questions, if possible.

Answer 1

I never thought about suicide as a personal trauma in itself. Interesting thought though. :P

I've never thought about committing suicide, although I HAVE been curious as to how my world would react if it happened? Would my surviving loved one's be sad for me for living such a crappy life, or would they be smiling with the knowledge that my pain has at last come to an end? What would they say at my funeral? Would my untimely demise actually mean something to their lives, or would it have no affect at all on future events?

Other than that, all I've thought about is the method. If I was driven to the point of suicide, I'd probably hang myself. It leaves a dramatic and iconic image, and it's nice and clean. :P

Answer 2

scientists and psychologists believe that brain works more or less just like a computer. So even though human mind is not a 'thing', it exists nowhere else but in your brain. It can be considered an image created by the software formed by the data aquired by human brain from the time of your birth during all these years. That is why mindset of one person is different from other...becuase no two people has had the same kind of experiences throughout their life. So what happens if the hardware required to sustain the entity called mind is destroyed? thats the end of it. And speaking of trauma....how do you feel a trauma?...either your body or your mind has to face something really unpleasant, it will have to pass through the brain in order to be able to be interpretted. Suppose you see someone whom you love being killed in front of your eyes...your eyes dont see them. It just captures the image and send them to the brain. Which is then read and understood by the brain and comprehended. So If there is no processing unit to understand trauma then how do you feel it?

In my openion shattering your brain is te best way to commit suicide.

Answer 3

Nothing at all happens to your mind when you die.

Your brain is an amazing organ it controls our muscles, respiration, pulmonary function and a host of other lesser known functions, but it does not think.

Thought is a function of mind that exists independent of anything physical. What appears to be the brain thinking in brain function imaging and other brain measuring attempts is only blood flow being measured to the part of the brain that acts as an interface between the mind and the body. This is the secondary function of the brain after regulating bodily functions. It acts as the interface, or the mind body connection.

Without it there would be no way for the nonphysical mind to exert any control over the physical body.
It is interesting that science has done its best to overlook this fact for so long. The silly idea that thought is some magical function of some mysterious electrochemical reaction is so vague as to be hilarious. There are several ways to disprove this theory beyond any shadow of a doubt.

Being nonphysical in source your mind is in no way effected by the death of the body and loss of the mind body interface, or brain.

Destruction Of the brain will only speed up the process of the mind freeing its self from the idea that it is the body.

Love and blessings.
don

Answer 4

Well, any way of suicide destroys the brain, all of them do, that's what happens when you die.

So I wouldn't consider the fact that suicide is the cause of a bad experience, the reason you die is because your brain stops working, whether this is because of cancer, severe damage, or lack of oxygen, it's always the brain that dies.

Anyways, personally I'm not afraid of death, afterlife or not I'm not afraid of death, sure I'd rather live if it came as an option but I wouldn't be particularly angry about it.

Dying, now that's a different matter, one that should be distuingshable from death itself, death being the result of dying, dying I am afraid of.

Answer 5

Since I was around 18 years old, I've wondered if I traveled with the wrong crowd. I have had several deep soul and gut wrenching conversations with friends, family, class-mates and co-workers who have eventually committed suicide. In the end I feel it is less traumatic to the soul than murder. That person made a choice to leave for whatever reason, but those who are murdered are in soul shock.

Consequently I have gone through much counseling. It pretty much still affects me, but I've just learned to keep my mouth shut because it bothers others, a lot and has given me what feels like a deeper perspective on what life is, and I'm still working on what my philosohy of life really constitutes. Gets mind-bending at times, but always interesting - to me.

The people I've known who have completed a successful suicide DO think of these things. They do wonder what will happen to their souls in the aftermath and they do wonder how their death will affect family and friends. These are the ones who are successful on the first and only try. These are the ones that cause me the most grief and sorrow, because they did not allow others to show their love and caring for that person and to help them through the temporary darkness of their lives. After these conversations, they seemed to be at peace. My bad, I was too young to understand what that meant.

I feel that suicide is an accelerated form of dying. We start to die the day we are born. The will of the soul determines life. People with extremely damaged bodies manage to survive and live, while others diagnosed with curable cancers roll over and die a week, or a month later when it would normally take several month, years or decades. I do believe in the afterlife. Energy is neither created nor destroyed, it just changes form. I am not of the Catholic faith, but I have come to believe that there is a place in the space/time continuum where we exist as a type of energy to contemplate the effects we have or haven't had in our physical lifetime. I have mixed feelings on whether their lives felt so bad to them they were willing to embark on the unknown rather than to stay with the known journey in what we call "life", or they were hoping to just bring everything to a complete and permanent stop, a step into oblivion.

A question came up in all these conversations that is now a big red flag to me is "Will God forgive me?" My response was, "God understands and loves His Children. The question is - Can you forgive yourself?" And to me that is the real question that will haunt them in the afterlife.

I've only known two guys who used a gun. One jumped, one in a head-on with a Mac (long-haul truck). The others were overdoses of medication or carbon-minoxide poisoning ("hose in the tail-pipe"). It is my thought (or more correctly a strong hope) they worked on what went wrong with their lives as they departed and got a head-start on healing their souls.

My initial reactions to the majority of their deaths was unbelivable anger at what I percieved as their stupidity, and my blindness to what was going to happen.

Texas Women's University has a website I have found useful. http://www.twu.edu/o-sl/counseling/SH047.html I am sure there are more sites like this one on the web. I really haven't found one that discusses the suicides afterlife other than Sylvia Browne or John Edwards or other TV afterlife contact gurus. And even though they give a rush of comfort at first, I don't know how to deal with how I feel about it (suicide).

These are just my feelings and perceptions in response to your question. I hope this gives you a greater framework to form your own philosophy concerning life and death. Blessings to you.

Answer 6

pretty deep question. Having at one time been to the brink many many years ago, I can tell you that suicidal people don't even consider all that stuff. The one thing I kept thinking about at this time was what if I screw it up and become a vegetable and as such a terrible burden on my family. I am living proof that any problem can be overcome

Answer 7

I think the act and method would be very traumatic. There has to be a less horrific way. And the godawful mess for whoever finds the victim should be taken into account, something that will linger with them the rest of their days--often a family member.

Answer 8

It's a pretty different theory, and yes, it makes you think about these things. I never thought that suiccide cauld be a trauma itself, but know it is realy confusing and obvious at the same time. Sorry, but as I sead, I never thought about this believe and never read, found, chated, about this theory. Thank you for exposing your oppinion, and helping me see another side of the problem.

Answer 9

Yes

Answer 10

i have, once though!!! and then i got out of the moment. i was just depressed and thot of crazy stuff. wen ur really into the moment and control anything u think, "i hate my life, i cant control it so why live it?" but then u realize u could control it if u tried.