I envy those who are able to bring themselves to escape from this hell world.
Mine haven't been transitory. If anything they get worse. Sure it's sensible for a kid to see if they can get out into life and improve their circumstances, or someone in some acute situation like losing a loved one etc to navigate the situation, but the "it gets better" and "permanent solution to a temporary problem" tropes are fallacies beyond a select few groups.
Additionally, the concept of hell is surprisingly prevalent across many religions and philosophies. It is not just in the Christian New Testament. Plato describes something like hell in the dialogue Republic, for those who have repeatedly chosen their passions over their reason. There is a similar concept in Buddhism. The idea is that hell is not a place people get thrown arbitrarily for actions beyond their control, but it is essentially a place they put themselves through their repeated, knowledgeable and voluntary choices.
All that being said, thinking about the possibility of hell I believe was helpful at least to make me reconsider whether things in my life were really all that bad, all things considered. Trying my best to imagine endless torment (tough to do, try it!) is at the very least sobering and a bit of a wakeup call.
- how can I minimize at most the damage done to my close ones? Yes suicide is a transfer of pain, but only a partial transfer. Full transfer would make life unlivable - what do I do if I'm saved and everyone knows? - Is there a hell waiting for suicidal persons? Is reincarnation real, and if so will this hellish life begin again? - What's the best way to minimize the persons discovering your body?
They are dedicated and spend monthes/years not only perfecting the method (most serious candidates always pick the same one) but talking about themselves about these problems:
- how can I minimize at most the damage done to my close ones? Yes suicide is a transfer of pain, but only a partial transfer. Full transfer would make their life unlivable
- what do I do if I'm saved and everyone knows? -
- Is there a hell waiting for suicidal persons? Is reincarnation real, and if so will this hellish life begin again?
- What's the best way to minimize the trauma inflicted to the persons discovering your body?
Capitalism will get changed/fixed. At a local level, move to a sane country ;) At a global one, first realize we are much much much better globally than at any other time in history; we will keep improving.
Even in the USA, we're arguably better overall that at any other time in history; yes, Trump is a step back, but it's just so we can get impulse
Even a basic look at where we are shows this as untrue. Our health care is more expensive, life spans are declining, wages dropping when compared with inflation, housing costs rising. We don't have to dig very deep to see that we are going downhill.
We have problems. I believe they are solvable. But we've got to stop denying that we have them.
Capitalism is just a system to allocate resources fairly. Under some very optimistic circumstances it works amazingly well. But if you forcibly distort the system and don't account for processes that are a net benefit for individuals but produce negative value for society at large then it's nothing but self destructive.
So really, just climate change is our problem. We need a sustainable way to obtain resources to further fuel capitalism and approach post-scarcity society.
At any given point I'm one week away from homelessness or starvation. Having skin cancer is better than having pancreatic cancer - but neither of them are good.
Life is pretty fucking miserable for a large part (perhaps even most) of the world on a daily basis. I doubt they'd share your can-do attitude on this subject.