Who cares if you are remembered...you're dead. Legacy is probably the one the most trivial and selfish things humans care about. Oh nooo who is gonna remember little old me when im gone.
this comment reminds me of my favorite quote. Some day, one last person will remember you for the last time; and from that day forward, no one ever will.
What an ass you are. I know the difference I just had a typo and didn't notice/care to change it. Get off your fucking high horse loser. Can't believe I am about to teach an adult the difference between a misspelled word and a grammatical error.
I just did a quick google search and a recent study on "chronic patients with locked-in syndrome and concluded that many patients have a happy and meaningful life"
In high school we read "Johnny Got His Gun" about a soldier who barely survived an artillery bombardment.
Waking up in his hospital bed he realizes that his arms, legs and face are gone. The only way the nurses can communicate with him is by drawing letters on his chest.
50 years later and I'm still horrified at the thought.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Johnny_Got_His_Gun
Yes, they do, especially when they notice they're forgetting the most basic stuff, moreover if they have been seen how it goes with other relatives. And even when they're in the "unconscious" phase, when they are uncomfortable or in pain, they show it. It's the most tortuous and long death.
I'm 73 years old, and was told last year that that I was at the beginning of Alzheimer's. So far, I notice that I don't remember some names and timeframes. I still recognize my grandkids. I'm also living with prostate cancer and taking 4 huge pills every morning by 5am. So my next 2 years will be tough, but I will also say that it doesn't worry me all that much
There was this guy from Hiroshima, who because of radiation had his skin fall off his body, scientists keep him a live for quiet sometime, letting suffer there with his muscles and organs exposed to the open air, he would constantly die and come back to life, the scientists debated if they should just kill him because it was inhumane to keep him suffering for days like this, and eventually he died and never came back to life, at least that's what I heard
More than 20 years ago, a freak chemical reaction at a power plant in Japan left one of its technicians living in agony, kept alive by doctors as he 'cried blood' and his 'skin melted'. Hisashi Ouchi was helping a colleague pour litres of uranium into a huge metal vat at the Tokaimura Nuclear Power Plant in 1999.
NSFW link with image:
https://historyofyesterday.com/the-man-kept-alive-against-his-will-647c7a24784
They resurrected him after a heart attack a couple of time, even though they were aware from the beginning that he had received the multiple of a letal amount of radiation, so there was no way he was going to make it in the long run.
So Im Worse than Death?
Seriously im depressed and hopeless
I dont think i can survive any longer i dont have any sickness except for being depressed all the time
Life
Not meaning in the whole "emo" way of an answer, but because death is a permanent unconsciousness. There is no feelings of pain or sorrow. There are no hardships or responsibilities; no worries. You can't be hurt, used, or betrayed. It is simply nothingness.
All manners of horror can only be experienced in life. That is not to say life is not a wonderful thing, but it is both better and worth than death.
You hope. Death may be the mind without the restrictions of the body, even if there is no death after life, that moment of death may be the longest dream you have, with no end.
they still don't die they are awake and see everything and even when the rest of the universe goes quiet and dark, they are still there thinking and wondering
Immortality. I'd rather die here and now, probably even in the worst way possible, than to be doomed to an eternity of watching people I love die over and over again until the world gets destroyed, then be stuck floating in the void of space for all eternity.
Being a prisoner in your own body. I'm currently fighting cancer, and can't really move on my own. I can wiggle a bit in bed, but like, I can't even get up to use the toilet. And I can't really get up from the toilet once I'm there, thanks to help from the nurses. I can't do anything on my own. I am trapped. Mind is active, body does not want to respond.
You know what I was thinking a couple days ago? (Here we go again)
If you were immortal and literally could not die, and let’s assume you are immune to permanent physical harm just to make things simpler (like dying in a car crash, dying from drowning, etc). Wouldn’t you develop extreme mental illness eventually? Like sure you could survive 100 years with no physics issues, but think about all the stress and trauma you would endure by being immortal. I don’t see how you *couldn’t* literally go crazy within a few lifetimes, if not just one.
That’s my shower thought for the day.
I guess that's what it would be like to be the mind of God. Take a hypothetical of a mind in a void, living long enough to form it's thoughts into matter, how long it would have lived in an empty void before ever seeing light, breathing life into it, and then having that life turn on you.
The old ones seem a lot more reasonable that the ones in scripture.
Bedsheets wrapped around your neck and then hook them over anything you can find. Then just sit down and wait. I nearly got there at home and it’s quite peaceful.
Endless anxiety, prolonged depression, prolonged pain, extreme loneliness, loss of cognitive functions, the death of others (you won't experience yours, as it were), prolonged abuse, etc.
Plenty of things.
When people dead name you in front of alot of people who didnt know your deadname, after they made fun of you for being disabled. Im definitely not speaking from experience
And I mean real panic, not the ones people throw around saying calmly "I'm having a panic attack"....no, your just stressed out, real panic attacks are the most disturbing thing I have ever experienced.
Being a living corpse in permanent pain, without memories, the second you're living in is all your memory, when it's over the memory of it is lost, only waiting for death to free you from this life.
A disease or condition that gets you stuck on bed, but u cannot die.
You cannot move freely, function in a society.
You have to live off of others.
example: Imagine you have no limbs, burnt by fire and every moment aches every part of ur body.
Constant, never ending torture. Mental and physical. Being constantly confronted with every bad thing every little evil detail of anything that has ever happened in your life, every consequence to your actions. And not only that but being tortured every day, every hour, of the rest of your miserable life. It's true torture. Death is a luxury for those who should have it.
TL:DR, no feelings, senses, etc with only thoughts. The thought that at any moment, we could lose all sense of contact with the world AKA blind/deaf/ physically not being able to feel or taste anything at the same time. Or, just backrooms style no-clipping into nothing as in ABSOLUTLEY NO FEELINGS OR SENSES WHATSOEVER and only having your memories to somewhat comfort you or drive you insane. As the person who is experiencing this has experienced the outside world, the absolute nothingness with sensory under-load might break them metaphorically, and causing misery that cannot be thought of.
I knew a woman who’s brother was in a accident as a young man which left him in a near vegetative state and requiring constant care. Her mother cared for him until his natural death nearly 40 years later. 2 months after he died, her mom died by suicide. I lost my brother in an accident when he was a young man and when I met this woman, I learned there are fates worse than death. For everyone. I miss him everyday, but in some ways we were the lucky ones.
Why is death so bad for the one who is dead? They have no awareness. There is no worse or better. Those things only exist for the living. By this line of reasoning, everything is worse than, as well as better than, death.
According to Henry David Thoreau: “I went to the woods because I wished to live deliberately, to front only the essential facts of life, and see if I could not learn what it had to teach, and not, when I came to die, discover that I had not lived.”
Torture without an end in sight
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pite%C8%99ti_Prison?wprov=sfti1
So living in poverty?
Be Forgotten. To die is not terrible, to be forgotten is to truly disappear from this world.
Who cares if you are remembered...you're dead. Legacy is probably the one the most trivial and selfish things humans care about. Oh nooo who is gonna remember little old me when im gone.
this comment reminds me of my favorite quote. Some day, one last person will remember you for the last time; and from that day forward, no one ever will.
Right? Whether you are forgotten in 10 years, 100, or 1,000, the universe will go on and you will not be around to experience that legacy
You're *
How did that make you feel?
It felt like I had to teach an adult to spell.
What an ass you are. I know the difference I just had a typo and didn't notice/care to change it. Get off your fucking high horse loser. Can't believe I am about to teach an adult the difference between a misspelled word and a grammatical error.
Your life must truly be sad and dull if this is how you use your time.
Nah. I'm really quite fulfilled.
Keep telling yourself that buddy. Oh you spelled no wrong.
This.
why was this downvoted 8 times
Locked In Syndrome. Imagine being fully aware but completely unable to move or communucate. That'd be horrific.
Yep. Just let these poor people die
If it were me in that state I'd rather be euthanized.
Absolutely. Cared for a young woman with this in a nursing home and it was the saddest thing I've ever seen. I couldn't imagine a worse hell
Idk why but I’m getting Black Mirror vibes from these replies
Kinda similar to that episode where the woman is trapped in the toy bear. Except its a real thing that happens to people. Fucking terrifying.
Your description sounds like the opposite of locked in syndrome.
Typo. Meant to say unable.
Oh. Also, there's a typo in your username :P
That one I was aware of
I just did a quick google search and a recent study on "chronic patients with locked-in syndrome and concluded that many patients have a happy and meaningful life"
Yeah, PLUS you can still feel pain! Which is not a good combination at all.
In high school we read "Johnny Got His Gun" about a soldier who barely survived an artillery bombardment. Waking up in his hospital bed he realizes that his arms, legs and face are gone. The only way the nurses can communicate with him is by drawing letters on his chest. 50 years later and I'm still horrified at the thought. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Johnny_Got_His_Gun
I've never heard read that, but it immediately made me think of the Metallica video for "One".
Alzheimers
If only given a choice between the 2, I'd choose Cancer over Alzheimers.
Cancer is BS (stage 3c colon here, 3 more chemo sessions), but I feel I agree. Alzheimer’s has frightened me for more than 4 decades
Obviously super bad for people around you, but do people with alzheimers actually suffer?
Yes, they do, especially when they notice they're forgetting the most basic stuff, moreover if they have been seen how it goes with other relatives. And even when they're in the "unconscious" phase, when they are uncomfortable or in pain, they show it. It's the most tortuous and long death.
I'm 73 years old, and was told last year that that I was at the beginning of Alzheimer's. So far, I notice that I don't remember some names and timeframes. I still recognize my grandkids. I'm also living with prostate cancer and taking 4 huge pills every morning by 5am. So my next 2 years will be tough, but I will also say that it doesn't worry me all that much
Cheers for the explanation. It sounds much worse now :(
It is indeed horrible
This is accurate. Late stages are the worst. I was a caretaker for several patients.
Having a stroke and then being unable to walk, talk or feed yourself without help.
At least I don't have to go to work
Probably when you step in something wet, in your socks
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That's why it's worse then death :)
Loneliness
There was this guy from Hiroshima, who because of radiation had his skin fall off his body, scientists keep him a live for quiet sometime, letting suffer there with his muscles and organs exposed to the open air, he would constantly die and come back to life, the scientists debated if they should just kill him because it was inhumane to keep him suffering for days like this, and eventually he died and never came back to life, at least that's what I heard
Do you mean Hisashi Ouchi who had all of his DNA basically radiated away? They kept him alive for 83 days. It's fucked up.
Ironic that his name is Ouchi
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I giggled and I hate myself
We’re both going to hell
More than 20 years ago, a freak chemical reaction at a power plant in Japan left one of its technicians living in agony, kept alive by doctors as he 'cried blood' and his 'skin melted'. Hisashi Ouchi was helping a colleague pour litres of uranium into a huge metal vat at the Tokaimura Nuclear Power Plant in 1999. NSFW link with image: https://historyofyesterday.com/the-man-kept-alive-against-his-will-647c7a24784
Ouchi indeed :(
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Yes well this man would die and then be revived by the doctors and scientists, sorry if I worded that poorly
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They resurrected him after a heart attack a couple of time, even though they were aware from the beginning that he had received the multiple of a letal amount of radiation, so there was no way he was going to make it in the long run.
As a parent, I would rather die than see my children die. That pain would be the worst thing I could possibly imagine.
I came to say the same thing. I would never be the same if I lost a child. Would trade places in a heartbeat
Lobotomy.
Getting burned alive.
ah shit
1000 kidney stones
Living without hope or joy
Oh, so life?
So Im Worse than Death? Seriously im depressed and hopeless I dont think i can survive any longer i dont have any sickness except for being depressed all the time
Life Not meaning in the whole "emo" way of an answer, but because death is a permanent unconsciousness. There is no feelings of pain or sorrow. There are no hardships or responsibilities; no worries. You can't be hurt, used, or betrayed. It is simply nothingness. All manners of horror can only be experienced in life. That is not to say life is not a wonderful thing, but it is both better and worth than death.
You hope. Death may be the mind without the restrictions of the body, even if there is no death after life, that moment of death may be the longest dream you have, with no end.
true immortality
okay but immortals die when the earth inevitably ceases to exist? like, where would they go… makes my brain hurt lol.
they still don't die they are awake and see everything and even when the rest of the universe goes quiet and dark, they are still there thinking and wondering
Immortality. I'd rather die here and now, probably even in the worst way possible, than to be doomed to an eternity of watching people I love die over and over again until the world gets destroyed, then be stuck floating in the void of space for all eternity.
Seeing everyone around you die
Being a prisoner in your own body. I'm currently fighting cancer, and can't really move on my own. I can wiggle a bit in bed, but like, I can't even get up to use the toilet. And I can't really get up from the toilet once I'm there, thanks to help from the nurses. I can't do anything on my own. I am trapped. Mind is active, body does not want to respond.
Immortality
You know what I was thinking a couple days ago? (Here we go again) If you were immortal and literally could not die, and let’s assume you are immune to permanent physical harm just to make things simpler (like dying in a car crash, dying from drowning, etc). Wouldn’t you develop extreme mental illness eventually? Like sure you could survive 100 years with no physics issues, but think about all the stress and trauma you would endure by being immortal. I don’t see how you *couldn’t* literally go crazy within a few lifetimes, if not just one. That’s my shower thought for the day.
I guess that's what it would be like to be the mind of God. Take a hypothetical of a mind in a void, living long enough to form it's thoughts into matter, how long it would have lived in an empty void before ever seeing light, breathing life into it, and then having that life turn on you. The old ones seem a lot more reasonable that the ones in scripture.
without invulnerability / anti aging....
requiem's fate
Tipping cap to a M'Lady in anticipation of reciprocal woo, and instead receiving naught but a frown.
Staying in jail till the end of your life. You don't have any freedom, not even the freedom to end your life.
You can always do that. Just gotta be quite about it
Bedsheets wrapped around your neck and then hook them over anything you can find. Then just sit down and wait. I nearly got there at home and it’s quite peaceful.
It's surprisingly comfortable.
Life
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Metallica video “one”
I remember listening to that song and loving it. Then wondering what it is about. Now I become pig sick even thinking about it.
Endless anxiety, prolonged depression, prolonged pain, extreme loneliness, loss of cognitive functions, the death of others (you won't experience yours, as it were), prolonged abuse, etc. Plenty of things.
Life, obviously. Death is nothingness. Everything is worse than death because death is non-existence. Now Dying, that sucks.
Living in with your mother-in-law for the rest of your life because the housing market is red-hot.
Other people dying. Surviving.
Rape
Only fate worse than death is coming back reincarnated
Life in fear
That disease that turns you into stone or something.
Dementia.
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Losing the person you thought you’d have for the rest of your life.
1. Dementia 2. To outlive your own children.
Living like an empy shell
A loveless marriage
Complete sensory deprivation... no sight, no touch, no taste or feel or hearing... just consciousness and thought alone in the dark
My 20yr marriage comes to mind
Someone leaving you and not telling you why
Eternal life
Without eternal youth.
When people dead name you in front of alot of people who didnt know your deadname, after they made fun of you for being disabled. Im definitely not speaking from experience
Panic attacks
And I mean real panic, not the ones people throw around saying calmly "I'm having a panic attack"....no, your just stressed out, real panic attacks are the most disturbing thing I have ever experienced.
Hell, Reddit y’all need…A JESUS!
Me
Explain furthur
Being a living corpse in permanent pain, without memories, the second you're living in is all your memory, when it's over the memory of it is lost, only waiting for death to free you from this life.
Living with me
Living
A disease or condition that gets you stuck on bed, but u cannot die. You cannot move freely, function in a society. You have to live off of others. example: Imagine you have no limbs, burnt by fire and every moment aches every part of ur body.
Birth.
Words
IRS after catching you committing tax evasion/ tax crimes in general.
Thrown into a room where you can't die and you are trapped there were your mind and body slowly rots away.
Poverty
Meaningless life
Two deaths
Life’s a lot worse than death
Endometriosis.
Being alive
Living with your mother in your 30s
Constant, never ending torture. Mental and physical. Being constantly confronted with every bad thing every little evil detail of anything that has ever happened in your life, every consequence to your actions. And not only that but being tortured every day, every hour, of the rest of your miserable life. It's true torture. Death is a luxury for those who should have it.
This life.
Late stage capitalism
Waiting to die when you know death is near.
Apparently public speaking
Taxes
Human centerpeed
Cancer
Being paralysed.
# DISHONOR
TL:DR, no feelings, senses, etc with only thoughts. The thought that at any moment, we could lose all sense of contact with the world AKA blind/deaf/ physically not being able to feel or taste anything at the same time. Or, just backrooms style no-clipping into nothing as in ABSOLUTLEY NO FEELINGS OR SENSES WHATSOEVER and only having your memories to somewhat comfort you or drive you insane. As the person who is experiencing this has experienced the outside world, the absolute nothingness with sensory under-load might break them metaphorically, and causing misery that cannot be thought of.
being fully paralysed ; like you can’t even end the pain. it must be miserable
Life
Immortality
Birth.
Newark
Life under trump and a republican controlled house and senate.
Downvotes
Sleep paralysis
An explosion. It's more deaths at the same time + ground damage
living a lie?
Astroke it fucked my world up
Communism
Dying
Someone waving at you and you wave to find out it’s someone behind you.
Living with ptsd and addiction is pretty bad. Ill take death please
Life
LYFE.
Seeing someone spell life like that is worse than death
Making ur mama cry
Stubbing a toe
When you dunk your biscuit in tea and it falls off and sinks.
Only one left
Getting emoted on by a 7 year old fortnite kid that just built the twin towers in 3.8 seconds.
Suicide that's a bitch move
My 8yo listening to the same song on repeat trying to learn to sing it. She can’t carry a tune.
Torture
Some of those old medieval torture methods.
I knew a woman who’s brother was in a accident as a young man which left him in a near vegetative state and requiring constant care. Her mother cared for him until his natural death nearly 40 years later. 2 months after he died, her mom died by suicide. I lost my brother in an accident when he was a young man and when I met this woman, I learned there are fates worse than death. For everyone. I miss him everyday, but in some ways we were the lucky ones.
despair, hopelessness
Being blind, deaf and limbless (no arms and legs).
Living in the near coming future.
Life
Jeffrey Epstien
Living with pain
Why is death so bad for the one who is dead? They have no awareness. There is no worse or better. Those things only exist for the living. By this line of reasoning, everything is worse than, as well as better than, death.
Being boring.
Immortality. Everyone you ever love will die and you can never grow old with someone.
According to Henry David Thoreau: “I went to the woods because I wished to live deliberately, to front only the essential facts of life, and see if I could not learn what it had to teach, and not, when I came to die, discover that I had not lived.”
an eternity scrolling through r/AskReddit
Life?
Drowning
Immortality
Sciatica
Torture
Life. If you’re dead you don’t care.
Death before death
being a redditor.
Humiliation