Hjortron
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I encountered the follow gem from a guy on the sub-reddit r/SanctionedSuicide, and I'm just going to copy-paste most of his posts here into a single coherent text divided into four parts:
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What if death is better than living a life filled with hardship?
From my observation, we are living on a planet that has created great confusion about the death process. From the moment we are born, we are indoctrinated by institutions and society into accepting viewpoints that sell death as something to be avoided.
For example, scholarly history portrays the ancient human as someone that lived in caves and had to fight wild beasts for survival, claiming that this instinct for survival is the base of who we are. Psychology then uses these "instincts" to explain human behavior, giving them weight and acceptance as a concept.
In religion, the [catholic] church portrays death as the ultimate judgment, and spreads fear that if you commit suicide, you will be cast to hell for eternity (claiming that suicide is "a wasted gift from god"). In historic-Europe, if you committed suicide you would be excommunicated from the church and not given a catholic burial. Besides labeling the act as wasteful and cowardice, it would also bring great shame to the surviving family (further stigmatizing suicide in society).
In criminal law, assisting anyone with suicide is illegal. In many regions, even attempting suicide yourself is illegal (if you survive), punishable by imprisonment or confinement to a mental ward.
The obsession with life is so deeply ingrained in the human psyche, that from my observations, the resulting side-effect is that millions/billions of people are willing to live in sub-human conditions consisting of: severe poverty and financial slavery; chronic bodily pain and mental anguish; complete social isolation from community; missing limbs or bodily function. Humans are willing to live under these excruciating conditions because they believe there is more value in being alive, even under extreme pain and suffering, than going through the death process.
Why is it like this?
I think it makes simple logical sense that a person who is destitute should be free to escape the suffering and torture of "the human experience". For example, an uninsured low-income earner who walks away from a USA hospital with $120,000 in debt. With no access to higher education or better paying jobs, that person is forced to work the entirety of their remaining life to settle that debt. Never will they have a penny to enjoy being alive. So not only do they have extremely limited prospects of enjoying the planet, but their future has already been set in stone, and now they are nothing more than a debt slave.
How does a person handle such a situation? Depends on what they believe happens in death. If they believe that death is a ceasing of existence, or worse, eternal torture -- they would be more inclined to stay alive and learn to cope with the hopelessness, debt-slavery conditions, and lack of meaningful experiences.
On the other hand, if they believe that death is a liberation from all pain, or even better, an experience of peaceful eternal bliss -- they would be much more willing to "throw in the towel" and commit suicide.
Who benefits from either case?
It seems quite obvious that confusion about death benefits the parasites, including governments and "royal" families, that have profiteering interests. At the top of those organizations are a handful of families, enjoying lavish and effortless lifestyles, that pass on the accrued wealth from generation-to-generation, ensuring that all worldly power remains in the hands of a few people.
For example, we have federal governments that see humans as a commodity. Each human is a taxpayer, or a battery as "The Matrix" puts it, that can be used to fuel the GDP pipeline. Whenever a person commits suicide, that is one less taxpayer to profit the local economy. So it's in the interest of governments to ensure that people fear suicide, and more than that, the ones who are suicidal are coaxed into staying alive. And more than that, that these people are coaxed into getting back to work (through the use of "mental health" facilitators like psychologists, psychiatrists, and pharmaceutical companies).
There are the medical systems that profits from suicidal candidates being referred for "treatment". Hospitals make money from emergency patients being brought in by police from a suicide attempt. Later these patients are transferred to a "mental health" wing that profits from routine appointments with a psychologist/psychiatrist, charging an average of $300 per hour. Further we have the pharmaceutical companies which are pushing suicide as a "depression" and "chemical imbalance" that should be medicated. If you refuse to believe that your desire to kill yourself is a "chemical imbalance", they even have the power to incarcerate you to an expensive but ugly hotel called the "mental ward". So we have plenty of behemoth organizations in the medical pipeline, well connected with politicians and universities, that are profiteering from suicidal people. And in many of these cases, the candidates are not insured so the state is left footing the bill. So care for people with the "suicidal disease" ends up at the taxpayer, which translates into a guaranteed income for these huge organizations. Corporate parasitism in its ultimate form.
We have religious institutions that not only rely on church-goers for donations, but they also actively recruit new members by targeting the destitute population. Churches host a day each week dedicated to "feeding the homeless", which gives them an opportunity to spread their message to new candidates. Church organizations will go so far as to appear around the sites of tragic accident, like a bombing, to distribute informational pamphlets that take advantage of the candidate's vulnerable state to trick them into fear-based religious beliefs, including fear of suicide (and in many religions, the aspect of "divine judgment" creates a fear of natural death too).
Then we have public schools that work hand-in-hand with politicians to indoctrinate children into politically and socially correct views while the children are most vulnerable -- young, inexperienced, unable to use simple logic, and powerless to defend themselves when in front of an authority figure -- ingraining ideas and beliefs on minds that are ripe and easy to manipulate. This includes references made by the authority figure between learning activities, in reference to political and world news, as a time to sell the children on ideas about the necessity for war, how to spot a "terrorist", and of course the answer to "what happens when we die?" As well, this is a good time for the authority figure to sell children on the idea that humans have historically been driven to survive, from the time we were fighting wild-beasts and living in caves. So above all else, "you MUST survive! Do you homework, graduate from university, get a job, PAY YOUR TAXES! And if you want to kill yourself because you think all of this is pointless, go see a doctor, so we can string your brain through the medical machine. Hopefully we confuse you so much that you forget you have the desire to kill yourself."
What elements allow for this to happen?
From my observations, it seems like FEAR and CONFUSION are the elements used to trap the human in this life of servitude.
Fear of death casts doubt in the suicidal person, and that doubt is enough to stop them from going through with the action. It's important for the survival of these systems that the candidates are ingrained at an early age, long before they start being suicidal. And then it is also important that these ingrained ideas are activated on a routine basis, with each activation making them more real and dominant.
For example, that could be something as simple as "the system" publishing a TV show or Movie where the main character deals with suicidal thought, and the movie ends on a "positive" concept (positive in terms of the goal), like "survival above all else"; perhaps selling ideas of luck and perseverance to create a sense of hope for the viewer.
Or on a grander scale, it could include a government-staged bombing on its own people, like a 9/11-type event, where the death of mass casualties has viewers questioning their own mortality, leaving them in a vulnerable state for a government official to push a belief (ie. "We will make you safe! Just please don't pay attention to the fact that we are taking away your right to privacy as we speak... Anyone who questions our authority is a terrorist, so DON'T - BE - A - TERRORIST!")
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What if death is better than living a life filled with hardship?
From my observation, we are living on a planet that has created great confusion about the death process. From the moment we are born, we are indoctrinated by institutions and society into accepting viewpoints that sell death as something to be avoided.
For example, scholarly history portrays the ancient human as someone that lived in caves and had to fight wild beasts for survival, claiming that this instinct for survival is the base of who we are. Psychology then uses these "instincts" to explain human behavior, giving them weight and acceptance as a concept.
In religion, the [catholic] church portrays death as the ultimate judgment, and spreads fear that if you commit suicide, you will be cast to hell for eternity (claiming that suicide is "a wasted gift from god"). In historic-Europe, if you committed suicide you would be excommunicated from the church and not given a catholic burial. Besides labeling the act as wasteful and cowardice, it would also bring great shame to the surviving family (further stigmatizing suicide in society).
In criminal law, assisting anyone with suicide is illegal. In many regions, even attempting suicide yourself is illegal (if you survive), punishable by imprisonment or confinement to a mental ward.
The obsession with life is so deeply ingrained in the human psyche, that from my observations, the resulting side-effect is that millions/billions of people are willing to live in sub-human conditions consisting of: severe poverty and financial slavery; chronic bodily pain and mental anguish; complete social isolation from community; missing limbs or bodily function. Humans are willing to live under these excruciating conditions because they believe there is more value in being alive, even under extreme pain and suffering, than going through the death process.
Why is it like this?
I think it makes simple logical sense that a person who is destitute should be free to escape the suffering and torture of "the human experience". For example, an uninsured low-income earner who walks away from a USA hospital with $120,000 in debt. With no access to higher education or better paying jobs, that person is forced to work the entirety of their remaining life to settle that debt. Never will they have a penny to enjoy being alive. So not only do they have extremely limited prospects of enjoying the planet, but their future has already been set in stone, and now they are nothing more than a debt slave.
How does a person handle such a situation? Depends on what they believe happens in death. If they believe that death is a ceasing of existence, or worse, eternal torture -- they would be more inclined to stay alive and learn to cope with the hopelessness, debt-slavery conditions, and lack of meaningful experiences.
On the other hand, if they believe that death is a liberation from all pain, or even better, an experience of peaceful eternal bliss -- they would be much more willing to "throw in the towel" and commit suicide.
Who benefits from either case?
It seems quite obvious that confusion about death benefits the parasites, including governments and "royal" families, that have profiteering interests. At the top of those organizations are a handful of families, enjoying lavish and effortless lifestyles, that pass on the accrued wealth from generation-to-generation, ensuring that all worldly power remains in the hands of a few people.
For example, we have federal governments that see humans as a commodity. Each human is a taxpayer, or a battery as "The Matrix" puts it, that can be used to fuel the GDP pipeline. Whenever a person commits suicide, that is one less taxpayer to profit the local economy. So it's in the interest of governments to ensure that people fear suicide, and more than that, the ones who are suicidal are coaxed into staying alive. And more than that, that these people are coaxed into getting back to work (through the use of "mental health" facilitators like psychologists, psychiatrists, and pharmaceutical companies).
There are the medical systems that profits from suicidal candidates being referred for "treatment". Hospitals make money from emergency patients being brought in by police from a suicide attempt. Later these patients are transferred to a "mental health" wing that profits from routine appointments with a psychologist/psychiatrist, charging an average of $300 per hour. Further we have the pharmaceutical companies which are pushing suicide as a "depression" and "chemical imbalance" that should be medicated. If you refuse to believe that your desire to kill yourself is a "chemical imbalance", they even have the power to incarcerate you to an expensive but ugly hotel called the "mental ward". So we have plenty of behemoth organizations in the medical pipeline, well connected with politicians and universities, that are profiteering from suicidal people. And in many of these cases, the candidates are not insured so the state is left footing the bill. So care for people with the "suicidal disease" ends up at the taxpayer, which translates into a guaranteed income for these huge organizations. Corporate parasitism in its ultimate form.
We have religious institutions that not only rely on church-goers for donations, but they also actively recruit new members by targeting the destitute population. Churches host a day each week dedicated to "feeding the homeless", which gives them an opportunity to spread their message to new candidates. Church organizations will go so far as to appear around the sites of tragic accident, like a bombing, to distribute informational pamphlets that take advantage of the candidate's vulnerable state to trick them into fear-based religious beliefs, including fear of suicide (and in many religions, the aspect of "divine judgment" creates a fear of natural death too).
Then we have public schools that work hand-in-hand with politicians to indoctrinate children into politically and socially correct views while the children are most vulnerable -- young, inexperienced, unable to use simple logic, and powerless to defend themselves when in front of an authority figure -- ingraining ideas and beliefs on minds that are ripe and easy to manipulate. This includes references made by the authority figure between learning activities, in reference to political and world news, as a time to sell the children on ideas about the necessity for war, how to spot a "terrorist", and of course the answer to "what happens when we die?" As well, this is a good time for the authority figure to sell children on the idea that humans have historically been driven to survive, from the time we were fighting wild-beasts and living in caves. So above all else, "you MUST survive! Do you homework, graduate from university, get a job, PAY YOUR TAXES! And if you want to kill yourself because you think all of this is pointless, go see a doctor, so we can string your brain through the medical machine. Hopefully we confuse you so much that you forget you have the desire to kill yourself."
What elements allow for this to happen?
From my observations, it seems like FEAR and CONFUSION are the elements used to trap the human in this life of servitude.
Fear of death casts doubt in the suicidal person, and that doubt is enough to stop them from going through with the action. It's important for the survival of these systems that the candidates are ingrained at an early age, long before they start being suicidal. And then it is also important that these ingrained ideas are activated on a routine basis, with each activation making them more real and dominant.
For example, that could be something as simple as "the system" publishing a TV show or Movie where the main character deals with suicidal thought, and the movie ends on a "positive" concept (positive in terms of the goal), like "survival above all else"; perhaps selling ideas of luck and perseverance to create a sense of hope for the viewer.
Or on a grander scale, it could include a government-staged bombing on its own people, like a 9/11-type event, where the death of mass casualties has viewers questioning their own mortality, leaving them in a vulnerable state for a government official to push a belief (ie. "We will make you safe! Just please don't pay attention to the fact that we are taking away your right to privacy as we speak... Anyone who questions our authority is a terrorist, so DON'T - BE - A - TERRORIST!")