It might make things better too. 5 aeons in dreamland followed by incarnation into a fresh body.

Suicidal people usually can't make a rational decision. Being suicidal already feels like hell, and as if suicide was the only way to stop the suffering.

Yes and no. Statistically you're must likely to be poor, oppressed, and/or badly ill. If you reroll enough times though, you'll end up with a good start eventually.

unironically, the only reason i havent killed myself by now is the fact that all afterlife nonsense is clearly copium-bullshit. this is the only life we get so shit has to get really bad before existence is worse than non-existence

The problem is you're seeing it as punishment, when instead it's a necessary journey on the path of enlightenment.

Thankfully there's absolutely no evidence of reincarnation and even if it did exist, we clearly don't remember past lives so I consider that not the same person anyways.

~~suicide~~ reroll

FTFY

Some teachings say that being born as a human is as random as a blind sea turtle swimming from the ocean bottom to the top and hitting his head against a floating cork.

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In 'The Sandman' stories by Neil Gaiman there's a scene where a 12,000 year old wizard is finally killed.

When he meets Death, he boasts that he had a pretty great run.

Death tells him that he got what everyone gets, a single lifetime.

Buddhism states that you're reborn based on what you helped create in your last life. So if you were an asshole and caused a lot of suffering, then you're going to experience that suffering as the other side.

Since no one can remember their past lives, I would say that it wouldn't much matter what we are next, or what we were before. All those things, what if you were those before? You could have been someone horrifically tortured to death in the Middle Ages/Dark Ages, but you wouldn't remember it now. So, it wouldn't much matter what you are in the next life.

Since there's no tracking from life to life, there's no purpose to it. Nothing is gained. Like if you were mean to a specific kind of person in one life, and you became one of those people (say, a Muslim, or an overweight person) in your next life. I mean so what? It's not like you learn your lesson, having gone from a bigot of privilege to the victim of said biogtry. Everyone has it rough somewhere. And no one gets out alive.

I used to know a guy in middle school who at one point, believed that there was a kind of active memory reincarnation. You don't remember while alive, but between lives you remember it all, so you choose or you are assigned a future life depending on what you need to learn to reach enlightenment. In that future life, your memory is wiped, but when you're done living that life, you have all the previous life memories and you keep doing that until you figure out what you need to in order to reach enlightenment. I don't think it was Buddhism or Taoism or any of those Eastern religions. It sounded made up. I don't recall the name. And he never really got involved with it, he was just telling me about it and I never quite forgot.

What do you mean? I could just kill myself until I'm born into a rich family, that would be awesome!

Who says you get reincarnated right away? It could be a 1000 years between your death and rebirth!

That's how I set it up in my silly comedy Isekai, Maizy's Tails (it's free to read on the web if you care... Just search it, it'll be the first link): After death souls need to be "aged" at least 1000 years before they can be put in a new body. The gods think it's a multiversal rule but the MC figures out a workaround 😁

It actually opens with the gods bidding on souls from Earth... A world that ended about a million years prior to the auction (because that's how long it took to sort and categorize them all) 🤣

What if reincarnation was just a religious misinterpretation of the concept that all your matter will be recycled infinitely into the environment as compost, then grass, trees, salmon, bears, beetles, mushrooms and bacteria etc, all at the same time.

Under the principle that you are the universe experiencing itself subjectively, recycling yourself now or later makes little difference on your endless journey other than being a wasted opportunity for experienceing it all. A human has an amazing opportunity to experience thought, music, wine, chocolate, love and all the other things in the way a mushroom likely doesn't.

Depends on what kinda reincarnation your talking about and how it works/memory of past life's etc.

I like the thought that I get reincarnated into everyone ever existed and live those life's to learn as much as possible.

Even if reincarnation is real, it really wouldn't be you living as a cockcroach.