Discussion If you were the only person who existed in the world, do you think you would be more or less suicidal?

[DeletedUser]

You wake up tomorrow and something feels different. You walk around your city/town/village and realise you're the only person there.

Would this make you more or less suicidal and why ?

 

[falling_snow]

maybe id freak out a bit. but not much would change. afterall im nearly invisible there.

 

[TiredOfAllThis]

Would not be suicidal at all, quite likely.

 

[hikikomorizombie]

i would <3 that, throw myself a lil party :) then i'd traverse the country w some doggies until i got bored, then die the way i truly want to die

as for why, bc i h8 people. they are 1 of the main reasons i want to kms. no longer needing to endure & entertain their stupidity, mindlessness, & vapidity would be a dream. they're the reason i'm a hikikomori.

 

[Ash’Girl]

It depends.

If all food and resources were still on supermarket shelves for the taking, and the electricity supplies didn't cut out, and there were still libraries with books you could learn how to do stuff like grow food, hunt, hook up a generator (in case electricity ran out!) then I would probably be ok. I like animals. I would befriend those.

If there was no food, no electricity, no heat and local wildlife became hungry and hostile I wouldn't need to ctb because my outdoorsy survival skills are non existent.

But one of the daily struggles I have is people, expectation, pressure. I'd actually like to disappear into the woods with my cats and only ever see my monthly supply delivery person.

Though in that fantasy I still have my PlayStation, Netflix and my kindle to distract me. I'm just without the stress of my job.

 

[Dr Iron Arc]

I think it would make me slightly more suicidal but at least nobody would be around to stop me.

 

[FuneralCry]

I'd just want to die the same as I do now, I wish to eternally cease existing as existence is completely undesirable in every way possible, simply being conscious and aware is torturous and tiring to me, what I have a problem with is existence itself.

 

[Ash’Girl]

Eh, I just had a secondary thought.
If there was no other person in the world I could break into the vets and get Nembutal at any point.

Sold.

 

[walkingdead2023]

You wake up tomorrow and something feels different. You walk around your city/town/village and realise you're the only person there.

Would this make you more or less suicidal and why ?

It's impossible but if so I don't think I'll like it either it's gonna be scary I guess

 

[recat]

I would due to even more loneliness, even more if i had memories of the past and memories of those I love

 

[iloverachel]

Ironically I would feel less alone
Because I don't have to be surrounded by people who don't care
I feel more isolated in a room of strangers than a room by myself

 

[lifewasawillow]

Personally I think I would be less suicidal but I might feel differently after a while, not sure.

 

[Homo erectus]

That sounds like a version of creation myth. The only person then walk around and have found some similar creatures to mate. A new species is created.

 

[brokeandbroken]

It would just be different. That said what about nuclear power plants and etc... You need people to run those. I think a lot of the earth would be a wasteland. More then anything life would be boring.

 

[thinvy]

I'd be intensely more suicidal. weekends are hard enough for me when I don't leave my room, despite being a wall away from people I could talk to at any point, and two doors away from the rest of the world.

like don't get me wrong, assuming power and Internet lasts for like a week (unrealistically), I would absolutely go bonkers doing dumb shit and having fun. I'd streak. I'd go make whatever food I wanted to. I'd break things.

but at the root of things, I already have "rapture" trauma from being raised in a kind of culty Christian church, and a lot of my other traumas and triggers have to do with being left alone, so I would not be doing well.

 

[pthnrdnojvsc]

I want to suicide either way. it would be a billion times easier to kill myself without any humans and their hospitals bringing me back to life after an attempt. That's the main thing stopping me the threat of their ER and hospital, and the expense and trouble of going to a remote spot where there are no humans to interfere with my suicide

 

[slightoverlooked]

friends and family are the only things that keep me alive. i would probably stay alive for my cats bc there wouldn't be anyone to take care of them if everyone disappeared.

 

[Tears in Rain]

If you were the only person left in the world you'd eventually start talking to a ball, like Tom Hanks in Castaway, just to try and stay sane. Then you'd ctb.

 

[LifelessStranger]

I'd basically enjoy the chaos as much as I could and when I become mentally ill without society (which I genuinely hate, but can't do nothing without it), I'd ctb.

 

[strangelife]

It's ok, I think I will be able to live alone if I was healthy, if the same condition like I'm now, then ctb

 

[Argo]

Life would take on a dramatically different meaning in the absence of "the other". So much so, that it's really hard to know what my mind would be like. I think knowing myself, I'd at least do a lot of exploring of the empty planet while re-evaluating everything, so I doubt I'd be in any rush at that point. It's the constraint of life that causes my desire to die. Constraint removed = desire for death removed(at least tentatively)

My guess is I'd find new constraints eventually, though.

 

[Ash’Girl]

I wonder how long it would take me… I can go several weeks without talking to anyone beyond thank you at the store. But no people around at all, and not even any virtual contact I guess would be very different than my self imposed isolation or disassociative states.

I already talk to my cats though. They're probably the equivalent of Toms ball.

If you were the only person left in the world you'd eventually start talking to a ball, like Tom Hanks in Castaway, just to try and stay sane. Then you'd ctb.

 

[Ash]

I'd be pretty scared because of the potential of dying in agony from appendicitis or infection or whatever that would be easily treated by other people. And I'd be devastated at the thought of all the animals shut in houses or runs or barns, unable to get out and slowly dying of thirst and hunger.

But as others have said, if I could live somewhere isolated and quiet and private and only see people when I leave the property, but still have access to reliable utilities and services, I would probably manage my mental health a lot better than at present.

 

[ijustwishtodie]

I'd be the same amount of suicidal as I am right now though I'd quickly try to kill myself off as I'd be more terrified as a whole