I kinda like the idea of dying and I'd prefer to be awake when I go. I'm curious to know how it feels.
Of course I can't tell how my life will end yet but if I ever get something like Alzheimer's I would certainly do it. I believe my mind to be my greatest asset and I wouldn't wanna live without it.
I think I'd prefer to hang myself. I would use a gun if those were easy to get in my country, but luckily they aren't.
Thoughts?
Hi Cipher there are plenty of people who have NDE and can tell you what they went through. If you are bored with the stories of going to heaven, these visions of going to hell and back may be more your genre:
http://www.amightywind.com/hell/testimonies.htm
Death is a spiritual change from this physical level to other levels. The Buddhists teach that the spirit of the person transcends over a 7 week period, so the first week you are fresh out of your body and have the closest contact with the physical world; after that, the spirit fades or dissipates to the other levels, so that is why the tradition is for family friends and community to pray for the spirit to transcend to higher levels by sending positive thoughts and prayers.
In truth, we don't have to wait for physical death to transcend; the same process of forgiving negatives from the past, and sending/receiving positive uplifting thoughts and energy raises people and relations to heavenly levels of peace during our physical lifetime also. The more of these changes you experience during life, then the changes at physical death are not as big a deal anymore. It's only when we avoid the changes during life then all that accumulates and makes the change at death a big traumatic ordeal; like waiting until your finals to do all your homework that piled up all semester, instead of doing all your work and passing and correcting all your tests during the course, so your final is a breeze.
As for me, I figured as I got tired of this life I would just regress like a baby and start sleeping more, and talking more and more baby talk, until I need to be kept in a crib and rocked to sleep babbling. So just let me sleep until I don't wake up. If my health fails, don't waste resources trying to fix me, just put me back in the box, and throw me in the trash can.
If I was going out by suicide, it would be to make some political statement, go on hunger strike with a list of demands and solutions that people are too selfish to put aside their differences to agree on, protest across the web, and maybe sell advance tickets to my funeral to pay for the expenses. Otherwise, I am perfectly fine hanging out on the planet, and letting people hang themselves on their own ropes, pulling in opposite directions which only tightens the knots. I try to help loosen the knots to get them untangled, but if people taking sides are too stuck to let go of their issues and work together in teams, that's their problem. I can just play on the internet with other team players who know the rules of the game, until the day I fall asleep, drift away and don't come back. If I end up as a miserable mess, just toss me in the garbage and let me go. I'm already gone.
I have felt suicidal (actually, I take that back.. I'm not suicidal, but I adore the idea of it.) on many occasions. It is the ultimate control of one's life. I will not be killed my someone else, or suffer from an accident, illness, or age. I will cease to exist through my own hands. I will control my death and I will choose the exact way I go. It may not be until I'm 85 years old, but it will happen from me. I'll also choose a slow way to go, as tons of dimethyltriptamine is released. This is what many believe causes the NDE, or when people "talk to God" or "see the light". All of these experiences greatly mimic a typical DMT trip.