If you could press a button and cease to exist

sxt

..causing zero physical or emotional pain to yourself or anybody ..just vanish and edited out as if you never existed , Do you think you would press it?

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None. There are always positives to life.

Rayne Wooney

Would you not be able to press it only once though?

It's a bit hard to press a button when you don't exist

LizT

Surely if you ceased to exist, you'd only be able to press it once?

kwestfan08

We talking like a big red **** off shiny button? Because I probably couldn't help myself pushing it no matter what it done if it was a big and red and **** off and shiny

starlit

Escape button?

pharmaton

doovdela wrote: »

Escape button?

I call that going to sleep

Zillah

You should talk to someone about your depression. Healthy people don't fantasise about ceasing to exist.

NegativeCreep

Noooooo. Then I'd be dead duhh.

Seachmall

If I press someone else's button and they cease to exist did I ever push their button?

Because if their existence is just edited out of history then so is the act of me pressing their button (because their button would too be edited out of history and so it never would have existed, so how would I have pushed it?).

Ruu

I have three extra lives so I am good, need a few more rings and I'll get a fourth.

Oceanic Nebula

That would be amazing!!

I'd prefer if the button made the universe cease to exist.

Oceanic Nebula

Zillah wrote: »

You should talk to someone about your depression. Healthy people don't fantasise about ceasing to exist.

Imagine never having to get up for work again.

Seachmall

Oceanic Nebula wrote: »

I'd prefer if the button made the universe cease to exist.

Good creatures, do you love your lives
-And have you ears for sense?
Here is a knife like other knives,
-That cost me eighteen pence.

I need but stick it in my heart
-And down will come the sky,
And earth's foundations will depart
-And all you folk will die.

- A.E. Housman

jimbobaloobob

i know i wouldnt press it.
id be too curious what it would be like without me.

Oceanic Nebula

Seachmall wrote: »

Good creatures, do you love your lives
-And have you ears for sense?
Here is a knife like other knives,
-That cost me eighteen pence.

I need but stick it in my heart
-And down will come the sky,
And earth's foundations will depart
-And all you folk will die.

- A.E. Housman

That's beautiful.

JD DABA

Id dare say I would have it put in a jar and have my man keep it on reserve for the impending crucial moment.

For you see, of what good such a device if used within a lifetime devoid of experiences in the area of coke and whores.

Priorities.

RikkFlair

I'd probably chicken out at the last millisecond. I mean, imagine all the cornettos I have yet to consume.

humbert

I'd be great if other people had such a button, right in the middle of their forehead, perhaps. "Oh? Doing very well in this league are they? Thinking of buying Jimmney Bob for eleventy million are they? Heading down to the pub to see the match are you?" Push, poof and the world is a slightly better place.

My name is URL

If you could press a button...?

Oh shit

Trigger warning?

Ham Wallet

Yes, and I'd bring Brendan O Connor along with me.

Lenin Skynard

Zillah wrote: »

You should talk to someone about your depression. Healthy people don't fantasise about ceasing to exist.

What other things don't "healthy people" think about? Your statement fascinates me.

Perhaps you need to talk to someone, you might get a very severe wake-up call some day.

AndyMc

It would have to one of those nuclear "flip a panel" jobs.

Still I probably would have pressed it long ago.

pragmatic1

There's been many times I'd have pressed the button.

DEFTLEFTHAND

We don't ask to be put here in the first place, we should be allowed to leave by our own means.

However by just being born you leave a mark, it's impossible to wipe out any record of your existence.

_rebelkid

sxt wrote: »

..causing zero physical or emotional pain to yourself or anybody ..just vanish and edited out as if you never existed , Do you think you would press it?

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As if you never existed, or actual non existence?

Because if it is the latter, then we are in the Grandfather Paradox.
If it's as if we never existed, and actually still existed but "outside reality" (very Doctor Who ), and had the possibility to "unpress", then yes, oh yes, I would press.

christ on a bike!

Lenin Skynard wrote: »

What other things don't "healthy people" think about? Your statement fascinates me.

Perhaps you need to talk to someone, you might get a very severe wake-up call some day.

I agree, you shouldn't exclude any natural thoughts but embrace them

MissyFit

Yes

IM0

Ham Wallet wrote: »

Yes, and I'd bring Brendan O Connor along with me.

so you like him so much you would take him with you

Czarcasm

Zillah wrote: »

You should talk to someone about your depression. Healthy people don't fantasise about ceasing to exist.

Now that's a leap that would make even Superman blush!

A bit like this leap you posited not so long ago-

Zillah wrote: »

I'm going to predict that 99% of people in After Hours don't have anything approaching a sufficient understanding of chemistry, medicine or mental health to be able to comment usefully on this topic, but that they're going to anyway.

Always stuck with me for it's sheer arrogance and misguided authority.

If you're going to comment Zillah on something with such authority, it's best you at least have some idea yourself of what you're talking about. On this occasion yet again, you display a clear lack of anything even approaching an inkling on the subject.

Mr Benevolent

Nope, suicide is always a permanent solution to a temporary problem.

jaffacakesyum

Mr Benevolent wrote: »

Nope, suicide is always a permanent solution to a temporary problem.

I agree suicide is never the solution but I hate this quote...maybe it's the depression in me talking. I'm only 21 so I don't think 21 years is in any way "permanant" - I could wake up this time next year and be in a much happier place (I hope to God, anyway..) but I've met 60 year olds who have been suffering from depression all their lives....tell me that's not a permanant problem...

nocoverart

Zillah wrote: »

You should talk to someone about your depression. Healthy people don't fantasise about ceasing to exist.

In context with this thread, that is one idiotic post of yours.

Ham Wallet

Zillah wrote: »

You should talk to someone about your depression. Healthy people don't fantasise about ceasing to exist.

Covering up something there Zillah? I think its perfectly natural to ponder the possibility of ceasing to exist.

Yes, definitely.
If there was zero physical pain to myself and zero emotional pain to others then it would be a perfect way of leaving the world.

DonkeyStyle \o/

sxt wrote: »

Do you think you would press it?

Nope, I'd contact the manufacturer and get a few made for other people.
Then stack them into an arcade cabinet and be all like...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JhpFzHtyoqM

Oranage2

That would be one remote id take the batteries out of.

--Kaiser--

Some ****ed up threads in here tonight

Clandestine

Yeah, when I'm 80 or so and I can't rely on myself to live anymore. Sounds like a nice way to go out.

evolving_doors

Wasn't this in a twilight zone episode!

wretcheddomain

I think it was Sylvia Plath who once alluded to the fact that the very fact she experienced continuous negative emotions was actually a positive given that feeling nothing at all can never be positive. In other words, experience, whether it appears positive or negative on the outside, is actually a positive compared to non-experience. Then again though, Plath eventually killed herself by placing her head in an oven.

_rebelkid

wretcheddomain wrote: »

Then again though, Plath eventually killed herself by placing her head in an oven.

Don't forget the woman who her husband Ted Huges married after her death; she killed herself in the exact same way, after mirroring parts of Sylvia's life.

Yeah.... I have the LC in a few days..... I know all about Plath

wretcheddomain

_rebelkid wrote: »

Don't forget the woman who her husband Ted Huges married after her death; she killed herself in the exact same way, after mirroring parts of Sylvia's life.

Yeah.... I have the LC in a few days..... I know all about Plath

It's been about 6 years since I did the LC - so you won't forget her in a hurry.

kowloon

The button would be preferable to any other way of going out, not sure there's much of a rush, but I'd press it tomorrow if I knew not doing so would condemn me to a slow, painful and undignified death later because nobody would be allowed press the button for me.

_rebelkid

wretcheddomain wrote: »

It's been about 6 years since I did the LC - so you won't forget her in a hurry.

I actually quite like her poetry. As dark and "depressing" it may be, you can't help but admire her tackling of themes. She's by no means a Hopkins level thematic poet, but she's well up there.

Anyway, push the button and all that....

clairefontaine

Mr Benevolent wrote: »

Nope, suicide is always a permanent solution to a temporary problem.

Tell that to someone who has to wear a colostomy bag.

Some problems are permanent.

Festy

No,but I would push it for some of the ***** who I hate.

mconigol

sxt wrote: »

..causing zero physical or emotional pain to yourself or anybody ..just vanish and edited out as if you never existed , Do you think you would press it?

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Maybe such a button exists. How would you know??

It'd be great, actually. Imagine if it had a timer that blinked you back into existence after a set amount of time. It'd be an interesting way to spend the time.

Gamer Bhoy 89

*presses button.....*

weldoninhio

Without hesitation, I press it the first chance i got.