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Re:The money, job, marriage myth: are you happy yet? by fegu on Monday January 07, 2019 @12:11PM (#18847154)
Not advocating hanging yourself, but it is something you will never regret since if done "successfully" you will cease to exist and therefore not be able to regret anything.
Re:The money, job, marriage myth: are you happy yet? by postsantum on Monday January 07, 2019 @12:53PM (#18847780)
Quite a lot of people who survived a suicide attempt (especially by jumping off bridges) tell how they regretted their decision the same moment they jumped
Re:The money, job, marriage myth: are you happy yet? by padobson on Monday January 07, 2019 @01:12PM (#18848051)
After a successful hanging, there are plenty of possible afterlife scenarios where you could have plenty of opportunity for regret. Most religions teach that suicide is punished in the next life. If we're living in a physics experiment or computer simulation, there's no guarantee our consciousness won't be stored elsewhere after death, opening up the possibility of regret, especially of the storage system sucks.

Maybe there won't be an opportunity for regret, but it's certainly not definitive.

Re:The money, job, marriage myth: are you happy yet? by nismoskyz on Monday January 07, 2019 @03:22PM (#18849577)
This depends greatly on your philosophical belief of whether you will ever be held accountable for all your actions, good or bad, after you "cease to exist".
Re:The money, job, marriage myth: are you happy yet? by newnewpdro on Monday January 07, 2019 @12:50PM (#18847751)
As if death by hanging is an instantaneous atomic act, you're very likely conscious for some time both during and after the irreversible moments.
Re:The money, job, marriage myth: are you happy yet? by _cs2017_ on Monday January 07, 2019 @05:15PM (#18850764)
This naive view is why for centuries we haven't seen any improvement in the happiness of ghosts.