Is it okay for a person to be so curious about death that they commit suicide because of it?

Simply, no. It’s not okay.

To learn from an experience, one needs to survive it.

So if you’re not sure about the existence of an afterlife, and you cannot be, don’t be in a hurry to find out. Your curiosity will not be satisfied, it will just die with you.

I think committing suicide because of curiosity would be such a sad waste of a life.
I’m sure a lot of people are intrigued by death and what may, or may not happen after. That doesn’t mean they commit murder or suicide. It is simply a thought.
You saying you “have almost gone mad” thinking about it sounds a little unhealthy to me, obsessing over death to that level is never going to be healthy and maybe you need to question why you are doing that.

Death comes soon enough to think about jumping the que

I know trying to commit suicide and failing is painful.

Is killing yourself ever okay? No…

I don’t think it is ok. There was a movie about a group of people who would purposely kill each other and then bring them back to life. I think they were medical students, but I can’t remember for sure, I saw it so long ago. I guess the point was they were curious and also felt powerful controlling life and death, so I guess you are not the first person to be curious and have the idea of killing yourself to find out what it is like.

The idea is extremely flawed, because once you die, if that is it, no afterlife, all you have done is ceased your life. The best parts of life are still to come for you and that would be a better curiousity. One day you will know what death is like, because we all die eventually. But, if you die now, you will never know what being an adult is like. My husband often agonizes about not wanting to die, he says to me, “I don’t want the fun to stop.” He has a lot of pressure at work and we have had many dissappointments in our life, so it isn’t all fun and games, but he also gets to all sorts of things that are fun and new. There are tons of things to be curious about in life, and the longer you live, the more curious you usually become about different things, because you become more aware of different things, more to look forward to trying.

There is a lot written about people who have been clinically dead and brought back to life. You could read what they have written if you are curious about their experience.

@JLeslie
That would be “Flatliners”.

Well, you’re never going to know anyway, I mean, you’d be dead!

And if there would be life after death… wouldn’t you then be awfully curious how the rest of your life would’ve been?

I think it is more important to focus on living than worry about death.

I do not think that many people commit suicide out of curiosity.

One thing to consider, is there a possibility you are depressed?

@whitenoise That’s it! Thanks.

Being curious about the nature of life and death can be a tremendous motivating force for spiritual development. In Buddhism, we call it “the Great Matter of birth and death”. It’s there percolating under the surface in most of us, but it’s so daunting that it typically gets buried under our pile of more mundane concerns.

For some people, though, it refuses to be buried, and they feel compelled to get to the bottom of it in an way they can. This can happen early in life. I remember reading the words of a Japanese man named Bankei who as a child had the same curiosity about death as you do, and who also toyed with suicide as a way to resolve the mystery (in his case, he swallowed a bunch of poisonous spiders; it didn’t work).

The question didn’t leave Bankei as he got older; in fact, it got more intense. But, thankfully, he grew to see that life and death are just two aspects of a single mystery, like the two sides of a coin. To get to the bottom of that mystery, you have to approach it from the “life” side. You can do that too.

Are you basing your curiosity on the absolute belief that there IS some sort of consciousness or ‘life’ after death, that “something” WILL happen, and you can experience it?

It would be pretty stupid. Want to know what death was like? The Universe is 13.8 billion years old and you were dead for 13.799999983 billion of those years before being born. You’ve already had a very, very long time to experience what death was like. I went through it to, and it was largely inconsequential to me.

It musta been a trip @ETpro ‘cause I don’t remember that at all!

@Dutchess_III :-)

@Dutchess_III & @whitenoise Yep, the most forgettable of experiences known to man.

So you thought about death? Been there done that got the t-shirt. You need help and it’s not a good thing to think about killing yourself. Once your brain shuts down it’s over, I was lucky to say that I was dead for a few seconds due to my heart that stopped, I think that I may have been dead but I only flat lined, (that is a term under correction). So here’s thing why don’t you get help and than you try to see how to enjoy life?

All I will say is that it’s not a scientific experiment if you can’t repeat the process and compare the resulting data.

If you are obsessing about death and suicide—even if you know that you won’t actually go through with it—you should seek professional help.

@jleslie, @whitenoise

There was so much awesome in that movie…

“hey, Fellatio…”

I don’t really obsess over it anymore, and I don’t want to commit suicide anytime soon. This is one of those things you have to be patient for… Literally waiting your whole life for it. There are many things I am curious about, and death can be my one final answer.

I don’t think I need help, I’m just wondering like I wonder about everything else. I would prefer to die naturally, anyway.

You could just watch Flatliners instead.

Apologies @whitenoise I see you got in with that one before me : ^) . I watched it years ago but have just requested the DVD from my library a week ago, strange coincidence.

@BBawlight

that’s reassuring…