Nomad,

44 is not old.  Have you always felt that your life is bad or is this just recent?  What would make your life happy right now?  (Saying "dying" is not an answer).

And time is not linear  - i.e you could just as easily reincarnate in ancient Egypt (if you died today in 2005)
as you could in, say, A.D. 2500...
And there was no limit to how many incarnations you could have...
Eventually you'd get to be a KING (or a pauper, and everything in between.)
And, you'd have these possibilities FOREVER (given non-linear time, as many modern physicists suspect "time" is!)
Me, I'd rather have THAT eventuality than "heaven" any day. (Hell, every now and then I'd get to be a KING, or millionaire tycoon, or even the neighborhood pool hall champ, or Don Juan. Who could ask for more?)

B-man

Hmmmmn, M-man,

I think some kings conspire to get an army behind them and overthrow the old king.  Either that or they might kill the heir to the throne.  Or they might marry their cousin....or even their sister in some ancient regimes.

It does appear that there have been many ways to be a king, and many of them are not very "polite," as B-man would say...

but I agree with you, M-man. 

The throne of the imagination is a very powerful one.

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Anyway, Nomad...life has it's ups and downs. Sometimes you have really big ups, and sometimes you've got really big downs, but life almost always works out for the better as long as you put some genuine effort into it, you know? Just keep breathing. If you hate where you are right now, move elsewhere. Make some good changes in your life, see a therapist if you feel that would help you. Just don't give up.

B-man,

You are the ultimate in tne endearing anti-intellectual.  You express uourself in cutesy soundbites.  But you almost never engage your respondents' arguments  directly (certainly never mine).  You never read any suggested books that might facilitate meaningful dialogue.   As a result, you cling tenaciously to a crude and discredited stereotype of heaven as an excuse to avoid a reexamination of your life and priorities.  Wake up and smell the coffee!  Or at least spill it on your metaphysically-challenged lap, so that you get mad and actually engage in the parry-and-thrust serious critical reflection.   

Don

Hi Nomad,

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You did, you know. I hate to break it to you. However, i feel for you. Maybe you can break this loop of depression you find yourself in. No matter what it was what brought this on, remember that you still have Yourself, your Love and you Light, and you can share this with others.
You can look at it like a gift you have, since there is only one of you in this whole world. That makes you pretty unique, don't you think?

Love
Uwe

Okay so I see you have plenty of support, I'll be the "bad cop" then.

So your life sucks and you want to die. boo hoo hoo. And here I thought those who lived in sickness and famine had it tough...

So tell me. You want to die because... you lack imagination to find fun activities and join groups that do the same activities as you ? Why don't you stop whining and fix the damn situation !!! You're NOT special and a LOT of people go through and have gone through your situation.

Stop b*itching, start acting.

Now do it !

I had classes about suicidal people so I know how they act thank you.

To tell you the truth we CAN'T do anything about it. If he wants to die he'll die. There is always a way. It's his choice after all.

The key to change the situation is to change it by ourself. Whatever the others will do for you, it will change nothing.

You want the truth ? If a suicidal guy goes to a psychologist, the psychologist can't help him. He'll listen to his rantings and if he sees it gets serious he'll call the cops and an ambulance.

And our teacher told us that sometimes these people want to die so much they act like everything is fine. So the hospital let them go away and they put a bullet in their head. It happened once to one of my teacher's client.

The other solution is medication. Someone that is suicidal should take medication. BUT this is a problem too because he will feel a little bit better each passing day. This can give him the strenght to kill himself too. So it's delicate.

It all comes to him. If he wants to die, he will. If he wants to live, he'll fix his life.

ps: I didn't humilate him, I told the truth to wake him up. If he really wanted us to help he would have asked us ideas on how to fix specific problems.