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u/thepastIdwell · 1 pointr/SanctionedSuicide

>I'd be interested to read some accounts of NDEs resulting from suicide attempts, and I'm sure there'll be plenty of those amongst the places you've suggested.

Yeah, there is (but finding them can take some time). Here is one of them, and here is another from the introduction to this book:

"I was at peace with myself. Nothing hurt. I could only see my life and self through that Being's Love. There was no negative in myself or from that Being for anything I had done, including killing myself. It [my deed] was changed by the power of the Truth of Love, with which it was seen. That Loving Grace, total acceptance, complete love and truth created a joy in me. I saw that love was in me too, not just from the Being shining down on me; it was in me as part of myself. I was full of love and peace. I felt the joy in that truth. I have no right words for it."

Then there are NDErs who are talking about suicide, like this woman or this piece of writing by Nanci Danison on the topic. And of course the evergreen thread from the summer of 2014.

>Also, was puzzled at first where you interpreted "dubious" as (possibly) meaning "deeper", as I would have associated "deeper" with "more credible". But I think by "deeper" you really mean more profound, esoteric or mystical, which some might regard as weird, therefore "dubious". Would I be right?

Well, I was just trying to interpret u/dissatisfiedcubone correctly, as it seemed to him that the deeper NDErs, where the person enters the light, has a life review, gets certain of the reality of an afterlife etc, sounds harder to believe in or "dubious" for reasons relating to his atheism or something.

u/Kwinnox · 1 pointr/SanctionedSuicide

Are you aware that most of mainstream science (more on this later) rejects Radin's findings? Since the existence of a book on the matter appears to be sufficient evidence, here.

I don't necessarily have the time to sift through half a dozen conspiracy theories, but from quickly having looked in fluoride, I'll agree it might pose health risks, but the suggestion that fluoride somehow keeps our consciousness in check seems ill-evidenced.

I agree that ETs exist - it's highly improbable that they don't. Intelligent design isn't real (which I, like you, have no need to provide an argument for) and reincarnation isn't real, either (again, no explanation required). Instead of an explanation, I'll give you the freedom to interject some goal I have attributed to myself that causes me to hold these beliefs, much like you have done for yourself.

It's interesting, by the way, that you previously discard René Descartes as the poster child of mechanistic reductionism, but have no problem citing Lanza's work, which actually partially looks to Descartes to support his central claim.

As for the claims of biocentrism, well, currently it can't be falsified. That doesn't necessarily make it wrong, but it does make it unscientific. At first sight there seems to be some merit to it (in my mind), but it's hardly conclusive (contrary to what you're making it sound like here).

So, Greer wants to know about UFOs. That's great. Similar to why I'll believe ETs exist, it's improbable they ever visited us. Make of that what you will.

>So yeah, this really irks me when I hear people chalk up psychic experience to random happenstance.

I'll make a point of equal strength and say it really irks me when people chalk up random happenstance to psychic experience.

>I personally prefer the idea that the human brain is a filter that allows us to function in this exquisitely compelling virtual reality experience (as both Albert Einstein and more recently where we incarnate ad infinitum to learn and grow as spiritual beings.

And I prefer the idea that there's a diamond the size of a refrigerator in my backyard. I would provide evidence for this reality, but unfortunately, I'm too busy digging in my backyard all the time.

Now, what Sheldrake says about consciousness ("dogma 3" if you must) I think makes a point - it's a stretch to say that consciousness is somehow physical. What definition of "physical" are we maintaining, I wonder. But still, if we make the leap from "consciousness is non-physical" to "we're psychic creatures", I wonder if we're not taking things too far. There's an explanation for consciousness that is neither physical nor psychic provided by Chris Paley which I think makes a lot of sense.

As for the rest, well, as I hinted at before, I don't exactly make it a point of combating conspiracy theories. In my experience people who believe in them are as dogmatic about that as they claim people on the other side of the coin to be. Granted, some of those theories are at least internally consistent, but that doesn't make them true. Now, I don't expect much (if any) of this to strike a chord with you since you seem to reject mainstream science in its entirety.

> I can't make this up, look up Project Stargate, I'm tired of posting links

Making it sound like I asked you to, which obviously isn't the case. This tangent that you've gone on in reply to a 2-sentence Reddit comment is one you went on by your own volition. I'm perfectly fine indulging you, but try not to infuse a sense of being bothered by your own actions in your reply.

Now, we're almost done here. I have literally no idea what you're trying to say with that quantum physics clip. It does go to show how far you've removed yourself from the comment you've replied to, though.

"Don't believe everything you read on the Internet" - Abraham Lincoln

u/Crystal_Charmer · 3 pointsr/SanctionedSuicide

I will to bet after you get this book you will be more then amazed of what you are capable of- https://www.amazon.com/You-Can-Draw-30-Days/dp/0738212415/ref=sr_1_sc_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1510439433&sr=8-1-spell&keywords=you+cna+sraw+in+30+days. Its seriously one of the best books to learn how to draw, and lots of fun.

u/I_neva_said_that · 1 pointr/SanctionedSuicide

I'm not all together mentally right now nor do I have the book in front of me but Karl Menninger - Man Against Himself talks a lot about the desire to commit suicide is ultimately a desire to commit homicide.

I certainly don't agree.

u/anon22559 · 2 pointsr/SanctionedSuicide

Thomas Joiner talks about the bravery thing a little bit in his book Why People Die By Suicide. I'm only about a third of the way through it so far, but I'm really enjoying it.

u/CountOfFortCollins · 11 pointsr/SanctionedSuicide

Have you consider the possibility that your time might be better served by checking out a book from the library instead of pastoring and insulting strangers?

Assuming you're not totally full of shit when you claim to be "intrigued," here's a book recommendation: "Why people die by suicide.". I know, it's a book, not something exciting like a VROOM VROOM MOTORCYCLE, but you asked.

https://www.amazon.com/dp/0674025490/ref=cm_sw_r_cp_awdb_p2u.zbFQ1ZNT5

In short, you're not asking us to answer your question, you're asking us to teach you an entire subfield of psychiatry (suicidology). The answer is no. Shut up, leave us alone and go read.

P.S. calling us cowards doesn't do anything. We get it, you're very brave and we are not. Good for you, here is a 🏅. Hooray.

u/handsfreetyping · 5 pointsr/SanctionedSuicide

If I can draw upon some of my influences (Thomas Ligotti, David Benatar, Arthur Schopenhauer, etc.), what would make me reconsider is a state of existence that is not malignantly useless, i.e. not characterized by pointless suffering for no discernible goal, with brief moments of pleasure to keep us running on the biological/evolutionary treadmill. I like to imagine that this existential problem encompasses all the "petty" concerns of a typical life (money, status, health, relationships, mortality, etc.).

If we accept the Benatarian asymmetry, then it follows that nonexistence (or at least, the absence of sentience), is an inherently better state than existence, since it contains no suffering and no deprivation of positive experiences that might occur during life. While positive experiences are a good thing, they're bought at the steep price of suffering and deprivation. The "weak" conclusion that follows from this is antinatalism, and the "strong" conclusion is universal suicide advocacy or efilism.

u/PresidentNeverbend · 2 pointsr/SanctionedSuicide

> As soon as I read the phrase "poster girl" I knew I wouldn't like this woman.

Redfield Jamieson back in 1999 or 2000 wrote a book called Night Falls Fast: Understanding Suicide possibly one of the classics to date on the subject, albeit coming from a preventionist perspective. I've read quite a few books on the subject but they've mostly been from a pro-choice perspective, hence I've managed to give this one a wide berth so far.

u/Goinghometospirit · 1 pointr/SanctionedSuicide

Also two books by Thomas Szasz: Fatal Freedom and Suicide Prohibition: the Shame of Medicine. Have read Fatal Freedom and can totally recommend, and will be reading Prohibition on the recommendation of someone else here.

u/milo682 · 1 pointr/SanctionedSuicide

If that site interests you, you absolutely must read A Stroke of Insight. Basically, a young neuroscientist gets an unexpected stroke. She recounts the feeling as the left hemisphere of her brain shut down. She felt a oneness with everything, to the point where walking or picking up objects was difficult-impossible. I think what she experienced may be similar to the experiences of people who "died and met God."

u/SophisticatedPeasant · 1 pointr/SanctionedSuicide

Uhmm, no, sorry but Psychic Phenomena has been proven in laboratory settings. Hell even Quantum Physics is starting to acknowledge the relationship between mind and matter, just look up the Observer Effect.

A close family member calling you out of the blue, somehow "sensing" or "knowing" that youre contemplating suicide isn't a "coincidence".

https://www.amazon.com/Entangled-Minds-Extrasensory-Experiences-Quantum/dp/1416516778

This is precisely what is wrong with this world. We are psychic beings by nature, but because of the selfishness of a handful of fear oriented "Elites" who've decided that they need to have more perceived material wealth than others and privilege and prestige have done everything within their power to chemically and culturally lobotomize this out of us (via Sodium Fluoride, Vaccines, and primary "education" and media enculturation, and now GMO foods).

http://www.informationliberation.com/?id=14949

http://www.wakingtimes.com/2014/08/22/fluoride-affects-consciousness-will-act/

To make matters worse (or to have a poster child to spread the fear oriented, hopeless gospel of the "Elites") we had the emergence of Mechanistic Reductionistic Science via Rene Decarte and this related nonsense that if a million monkeys typed on keyboards randomly for a million years eventually the entire works of Shakespeare will be produced.

No. Sorry. Divine Intelligence is a part of it. Reincarnation is real. ET's are real. Having to karmically deal with suicide, which I believe is the point of this life for me (to deal with the karma of suicide via a time out, possibly as a ghost) is a real potential consequence of said act.

https://www.amazon.com/Biocentrism-Consciousness-Understanding-Nature-Universe/dp/1935251740/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1479113035&sr=1-1&keywords=biocentrism+by+robert+lanza

https://www.amazon.com/Hidden-Truth-Forbidden-Steven-Greer/dp/0967323827

So yeah, this really irks me when I hear people chalk up psychic experience to random happenstance.

They then invariably go on to claim that consciousness is an epiphenomenon of interactions of bio-chemistry within our nervous system.

What a crock.

I personally prefer the idea that the human brain is a filter that allows us to function in this exquisitely compelling virtual reality experience (as both Albert Einstein and more recently where we incarnate ad infinitum to learn and grow as spiritual beings.

If we were to see the glory of all of existence without said filter we would be overwhelmed and incapable of functioning in this plane.

Back to psychic phenomena, I mean please explain away a few dreams I've had where weeks later I was doing exactly what I was in the dream I had a few weeks earlier, or all of those moments knowing that something specific was going to happen moments before it happened, or hey, how about this one, which most everyone has, knowing someone is going to call you, sometimes to the point where you look at your phone, think of that person, and then your phone rings. Or how about all of the dogs that know their owners are coming home (Rupert Sheldrake).

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

https://www.amazon.com/Dogs-That-Their-Owners-Coming/dp/0609600923/ref=mt_hardcover?_encoding=UTF8&me=

Mainstream Science has become the new high priesthood tasked with perpetuating the current [failed] paradigm, the Status Quo, the current order (any coincidence here between the Elites poisoning and literally brainwashing you and paying people large sums of money to confirm the idea that youre just having this one finite life experience on this little lonely rock floating in space and then that's it? Sounds like a great way to bring out the worst in people, to create a world seething with conflict as everyone "has just this one life so I better fucking get mine, even if I have to step on your head to do so" all of which benefits the "Elites"), just as the Catholic Church was tasked with doing the same in the 16th century and locked away Galileo under house arrest for daring to suggest that our planet occupied a helio-centric orbit around the parent star and not the other way around. Now it's the same thing all over again with Quantum Physics and the dawning realization that mind and matter are related, that we can influence others through intent and prayer, and that we are likely eternal spiritual entities occupying temporary host bodies for: boredom, entertainment, lessons, pick one or all of the above. (our actual psychic potential is far more extensive, to include, yes, telekinesis via yogic lore etc. and astral projection, remote viewing, hell the CIA was paying remote viewers in the 1980's at Stanford Research Institute to spy on the Russian's and they wouldn't have paid millions of dollars without first ascertaining the effectiveness! I can't make this up, look up Project Stargate, I'm tired of posting links).

http://motherboard.vice.com/read/there-is-growing-evidence-that-our-universe-is-a-giant-hologram

https://www.amazon.com/Journey-Souls-Studies-Between-Lives/dp/1567184855

My $ .02. Sorry if I offended anyone here.

Hold the door open for me, I'm right behind you.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Bq69-MI9TA0

"Reality is an illusion, albeit a very persistent one" - Albert Einstein

u/xtraspecialsnoflake · 2 pointsr/SanctionedSuicide

To clarify, "brain depression" and "organic type depression" are not real terms. There are organic mental disorders which are mental disorders caused by physical diseases (like, a mental disorder caused by a brain tumor, for example). That's not what you're talking about. You're talking about clinical depression. Furthermore, all forms of depression occur in the brain. Everything happens in the brain, or as a result of brain activity. So, "brain depression" is a misnomer. That's like saying "stomach digestion." I get that you were trying to distinguish between clinical depression and situational mood shifts caused by external factors, but you went a bit off the rails there.

I've had major suicidal depression since I was a child. I've never once had therapy touted to me as an all-out cure. It's part of an overall strategy for managing recovery. Among many other things, therapy is designed to provide adaptive tools for coping, catharsis in being able to share your traumas, troubles, and frustrations with someone, and in the case of CBT specifically, it provides evidence-based techniques for altering patterns of thought which contribute to depression and low functioning. As someone who has struggled with major suicidal depression for decades, it has helped me tremendously.

I'm guessing you've never tried CBT yourself. You also seem to assume that all science is funded by the government. It seems like you just wanted to have some echo-chamber validation of your narrative here, but if you actually do want some everyday examples of people who have been helped (many have used the word "life-changing") by CBT, read through these Amazon reviews of a book which makes its techniques accessible to everyone. All it cost them was $5 for a paperback book and some earnest effort to put the tools into practice.