Ive always been brought up to believe there is nothing else, you live and you die end of, ive attempted suicide a couple of times over the past few years and wasn't scared because i thought it would all be over but this last year although im suicidal and want to end my life but ive been terrified of what was going to happen to me after if there is an afterlife, would i be punished?, i read somewhere that suicides are made to come back in a next life just the same as this life and have to go through what your going through now all over again, i cant stand this thought and now i feel stuck like whatever i do there is no way out. Please i would like other peoples views on this, is anyone else scared?.
like you, i used to think that it was simply you live and then you die, but recently iv become scared that if i kill myself i will just end up in a life worse than this one..i think i fear an after life, i dont really believe in one, but i fear living forever.
i can really relate to how you're feeling at the moment
sorry this post is a bit pointless..
stay safe and im here if you ever want to chat =)
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Im an atheist and have no belief in the afterlife and from that a really intense fear of death has arose. To me, its a maddening thought that one second you are breathing, functioning, and the next nothing. You are void of essence and you dont even know your dead because it just stops. Theres no perspective on that you actually died because what is you is now no more. There is just an empty vessel now. Its difficult to fully explain without ranting which I started to do but you get the idea.
Thats what I think is going to happen so that is what scares me. The fact that I wont know if death was in fact better than suffering here.
Its stopped me from going through with suicide plans many nights.
And another way to see it is that after a suicide if you were forced to relive it, think of what you could do differently. You know how things could have turned into, so now you can make different choices, get help earlier, you could completely turn it around into something new and different. So in a sense you werent suffering, you just had a second chance. Another try.
I know how you feel though, I feel extremely trapped in my belief of 'afterlife' and that there isnt a way out now. Im always around if you need someone to talk to,
I'm a humanist but I do believe in a higher power out there. I believe that we are more than the sum of our parts and that our essence will persevere. I also believe that physical death is just another step in our existence. I know it sounds weird to say that, but it's what I believe.
You have nothing to worry about.. As Mystic Death said, if there is a supreme being, with supreme morality and supreme knowledge, etc., do you think that he would punish you in the next life? Absolutely not. I don't believe that the universe is that badly designed, nor could I. All I have to do is look around me and see the great things that humanity is capable of. If a supreme being is allowing us to do this, allowing us to live, allowing us to flower into something greater than the sum of our parts ourselves, he is truly a benevolent being.
I know in my heart that heaven, hell, and God exist. I was taught that if you killed yourself you automatically went to hell. That's just not true. If you know the Lord when you die, no matter how that happens, you'll go to heaven. There is no repeat life to torture you again. Only good things are in store for those that know the Lord. I know this is an extremist view to most but I believe the Bible. I hope this helps.
I (am/was???) a Christian. I do not believe that suicides go to hell no matter what, because I had a friend, Joe, kill himself and I WILL NOT believe that he is still suffering in hell.
I (am/was???) a Christian. I do not believe that suicides go to hell no matter what, because I had a friend, Joe, kill himself and I WILL NOT believe that he is still suffering in hell.
Hey, I'm new here but I can really relate to the whole I am/was a Christian thing...I used to be a commited Christian and then kinda' got angry and gave up on God. I dunno' I just wondered if maybe you were losing/have lost faith like me and what your thoughts towards God were following sh.
I had a friend, Joe, kill himself and I WILL NOT believe that he is still suffering in hell.
hey, im really sorry for your loss, i dont believe hes suffering in hell, i read somewhere that when you die there are different spears, the really evil go to the lower ones and things like angels go to the higher ones and the rest end up somewhere in between, i suppose i dont really think there is a heaven and hell then really, well thats one version ive read anyway but its hard to make sense of it all because as ive said i havent been brought up religious so im confused thats why im really interested in what everybody else thinks.
