[Closed] if your life / body had an off switch would you have pressed it?

I would prefer a reset button myself.

I like the idea of the reset button.

yeah that would be good. Stupid human body.

I'd rather a rewind button 🙂

Edit: oh and in answer to the OP, probably yes. Though glad it doesn't as I'd have pushed it in my early twenties and missed out on meeting mrs blobby and blobby jr (bugger, it's just got dusty in here.)

Perhaps a rewind rather than reset. There is plenty Id rather not experience twice but a few things that Id be curious to see the different outcomes of.

I'm sure the Samaritans would provide a more suitable answer to your question. Good luck

I'd rather a rewind button

Interesting. In the computer game Prince Of Persia: Sands Of Time, you have the ability to rewind 10-20 seconds. So if you fall off a ledge to your doom, then back up you go.

Maybe something a bit longer than this would be ideal, but it usually only takes me that long to realise I have done something stupid 8)

something like a computer game respawn point would be nicer.

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I'm sure the Samaritans would provide a more suitable answer to your question. Good luck

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Very compassionate answer... 🙄

I'm just waiting for rejuvenation procedures to be developed.
So many things to do, I need more time to do them.

Ha, well I feel like I've just been left on "standby"

There's the odd bit I wouldn't have minded fast forwarding through......

But pause and rewind would be nice, not sure I ever want to be off,

Is that a low power standby, or something un-eco-friendly?

OP, I think we all think like that sometimes, the thing is to just realise that there is more to do. Cheer up lad.

Certainly on the reset/reboot switch we all have that capability. I know I had to press it and make some big changes to my life. It wasn't easy but the results were worth it!! 🙂

Rachel

I know I had to press it and make some big changes to my life. It wasn't easy but the results were worth it!!

Waaaaa! But I want easy 😡

Danny B.

Jeez, that rewind button would have saved so much grief. Just one day back... *sigh*

To the op - What a bloody odd question

Jeez, that rewind button would have saved so much grief. Just one day back... *sigh*

You still wanting to take back watching [url= http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Drive_(2011_film) ]Drive[/url]?

Yeah,a rewind button and a hoverboard, excellent .

Nah, even with my current depression there is too many good things in my life and too many people I would not want to leave behind.

Tempting though.

Same really for a reset button - the people I have in my life are generally good people and would I get to the same point with a reset?

Cheers

Jamie

"pause" would be handy sometimes. Allow the rest of the world to carry on for a while while I get some sleep...

Drive was but a minor dip in the rollercoaster of life...

no, I don't want to end my life, or put it on hold, or rewind it either.

no matter what, keep on keeping on.

It depends. If it was big and red and said DO NOT PUSH and had a safety barrier around it, then yes I'd have pushed it. And so would everyone else.

If we had guns in this country as in America I wonder what it would do to our UK suicide rates?

OP, if you need to talk about anything I'm here markhoracekuk at yahoooooo.com. I'll probably be no help and I'll probably try buying something off you just to dick you around but hey.

I'd like a snooze button at the moment.

Id set it for a day, right now.

I would prefer a reset button myself.

I've pressed mine twice. Theres maybe less to it than people think to just change everything. I first pressed mine when I had a quick succession of encounters with people who'd had near-death encounters and in the aftermath had decided to change all the things about their life that they weren't happy with. Not necessarily seismic changes, maybe just work/life balance things, but sometimes it involved walking away from things that on the face of it were very successful and into something a lot more unknown. I was just struck that the people who I've known who've survived ambushes in the vietnam war, survived brain tumours, survived being run over by a bus are all very mellow. Made me think that I could manage without the massive trauma ,thanks, and just settle for being relaxed.

Id rather have a pause button, where you could go on a rampage whilst everything else stood still.
You could get up to some serious naughtiness.... 😉

the cure for winter blues and dark mornings isnt an off switch

its an aeroplane trip to sunny warm climes

failing that a SAD lamp is 60 quid

disclaimer other lamp types are available

I pointed at a bit of MrsBouys body this morning and said "ahh look it's resting" 😆

I could have done with a rewind button, right there, right then 😯

id rather have a pause button, where you could go on a rampage whilst everything else stood still.
You could get up to some serious naughtiness...

You need a magic boomerang for that 🙂

I pressed the stop button once, the Off switch.. I miraculously survived, and am very glad that I did..
It's staggering how much your circumstances, outlook, [i]everything[/i] can change, even when you think that there's no reason to carry on..
I've been from beyond hopelessness to complete jubilation, and everything in between.. More than once

Don't ever be afraid to use the reset button instead though.. It may seem like a big deal to **** everything off completely and start again from scratch, overwhelming even, but it can do wonders for enabling huge and profound shifts in your perception..

I found a couple of near death experience was enough to act as a reset button. While recovering or waiting to be recovered I found my outlook on life changed a lot.

I am now far more cautious but also happier.

With regard to the FWD and RWD controllers for life I would rather have one that worked on other people rather than me. Imagine beng able to put people on Mute ar just fast forwarding them out of you life?

With their access to drugs, Doctors and Vets have a sort off 'off' button and their suicide rate is higher than normal, so I'm quite glad we don't have one fitted. 😀

Dupe post.

Anyone else ever think this?

Yes.

Bit more complicated with me, I have people that'd miss me, so I'd need them to die first. After that, yes, I'd press that button without hesitation.

Life isn't a game that all of us want to participate in.

Not myself.

But in my day-job this is a question I ask people all the time.

I think it is ok to feel like this if your life really has no possibility of being any good ever again, and others would agree.
But if others wouldn't I think you need to look at how you change your life or yourself.

When I get more worried is when people start to think about how they actually would kill themselves and make plans or preparations.

To the OP. You're not mad. Talk to someone.

Bit more complicated with me, I have people that'd miss me, so I'd need them to die first. After that, yes, I'd press that button without hesitation.

Life isn't a game that all of us want to participate in.

This, very much so. Certainly during my mid 20's the only thing that stopped me was the thought that my close family (parents and wife) would be utterly destroyed by it and I'd be dooming them to a painful life. I'm glad that I didn't for the most part but I still have my dark days whereby if I had an off button, at my lowest ebb, I would press it.

I always thought a bypass button would be great. Flick a switch and shutters come down over your eyes and you kick back inside and watch a movie whilst the exterior you gets on with the stupefyingly boring stuff. Currently I actively look for avoidance activity to stop myself doing the stuff I don't want to do which is just counter productive.

There are probably already chemical solutions for my needs!

what about a 'skip to bike ride' button?
or a 'skip to fumble with Cheryl Cole' button?

One or two of the responses here suggest the need for an "Engage Basic Human Empathy" button.

For me, a "pause" button for the rest of the world that would allow me go for an 8 hour ride on my lunch break.

To the OP, others with more a more informed perspective than mine have already given advice, so I'll just say that I hope you feel better soon.

I wonder if it wouldnt be more humane . Not now , but say if you suffer from an illness or a stroke for example. If you are dependant on others just to exist , and there is next to nothing you can do for yourself. No walk in the woods on a frosty morning ,No bikes, No pub , No holidays . Just stuck in bed or in a chair with a remote control and daytime TV .
I personaly would suffer , humiliation and dependancy on others would not suit me.
So maybe yes, I would see myself checking out early if there was an off switch and I could not be reset to full working order .
apologies to those who are carers either for family or as a carreer. Im sure you are very much appreciated ,if not rewarded monitarily for the work that you do for others.

That 0.1% of doubt is your self reset button.

Use it wisely.

I would like a reset button rather than an off switch. I have SAD and hoping that my light box will help with the reset. 🙁

Nah. Rewind would be better.

OP. I would have felt like pressing it and have felt like it recently. I probably will feel like it again.

The key thing for me OP is that these feelings - even if they have lasted a long time, have passed and will pass again.

I hope if you are in a negative place that you get some relief soon.

TuckerUK before you do could you transfer your special powers to me, Highlander style 8)

Yes.

singletrackmind - Member

I wonder if it wouldnt be more humane . Not now , but say if you suffer from an illness or a stroke for example. If you are dependant on others just to exist , and there is next to nothing you can do for yourself. No walk in the woods on a frosty morning ,No bikes, No pub , No holidays . Just stuck in bed or in a chair with a remote control and daytime TV .

Yup. I've watched family members die on the inside... And I remember waking up after surgery and not being able to move my legs and just thinking "Right, that's probably temporary, if it's not then I'll put my affairs in order and get it done with". Obviously very happy it didn't come to that. But tbh a switch would be convenient but if the mild inconvenience involved in killing yourself some less straightforward puts you off, maybe you're not that motivated to do it.

And that's no criticism of people who can live that way in case it could be misinterpreted, just not for me.

I regularly feel oblivion would be the most suitable state for me. The only thing that stops me getting there early is the fact that it'll happen all too soon anyway.

Happy days, eh...

🙂

TuckerUK before you do could you transfer your special powers to me, Highlander style

You wouldn't want them, trust me. With those special powers come great responsibility. 😉

You could buy some Wild Stallion aftershave and be 99% there!
(need to have seen cult classic 'Party Party' to appreciate relevance)

TuckerUK I overheard a bloke say that to his c5yr old son. I said excuse me thats great, who said that? 'Spiderman the movie'...ah

OP, when you feel like this, have a strong coffee, and go to the gym or hit the trails. Clarity and endorphins will ensue 🙂

Yes, If I had such a button I would have pressed it.

OP, when you feel like this, have a strong coffee, and go to the gym or hit the trails. Clarity and endorphins will ensue

Not in my experience. As Jamj1974 says, the key is to know that it will pass. But what you won't know is when. IMO telling people do xyz and they will feel better, will often make them feel worse when they find doing xyz hasn't helped at that moment in time.

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STW knows hyperbole and a half mostly because of the Alot I think but the first part of this:

http://hyperboleandahalf.blogspot.co.uk/2013/05/depression-part-two.html

is pretty wise stuff IMO. Depressed people should read it. Not depressed people should read it.

+1 for a Pause button. Pausing is something I don't know how to do. Today/this week is a classic example. I can barely move with mental tiredness.

Nah, even with my current depression there is too many good things in my life and too many people I would not want to leave behind.
Tempting though.
Same really for a reset button - the people I have in my life are generally good people and would I get to the same point with a reset?
Cheers
Jamie

Did I miss something? I may have been slow but is Danny B actually Jamie?

Hopefully not, i like the Danny B character real or no.

Not that I don't like Jamie btw.

Never wanted an off button but plenty things I would like to 'erase and rewind' 😉

...the key is to know that it will pass.

Unfortunately it won't. Tomorrow there will still be just as many dishonest and/or uncaring and/or ignorant humans getting in my way as there were today. Ad infinitum.

It's quite surprisimg how much lying in the back of an ambulance with the blue light flashing, a gas mask on and wires and crap stuck to you can make you realise how much you appreciate some things.

http://hyperboleandahalf.blogspot.co.uk/2013/05/depression-part-two.html

what a link!!! only read a bit, epic stuff 8) 😯

...the key is to know that it will pass.

Unfortunately it won't. Tomorrow there will still be just as many dishonest and/or uncaring and/or ignorant humans getting in my way as there were today. Ad infinitum.

And just as many decent folks as today too. The ratio might still be crap but it isn't in actuality as bleak as mine and/or yours brains will make out.
Not that this matters when you are in the fug of the 'really run out of fight to give a toss about anything' state.
You can still be perfectly objective about the positives and negatives of your situation/ life/ whatever and not care a jot if you blink out of existence.
I just need to find excuses to delay the point until a chink of light happens to distract me from the dark. If I'm lucky I might get a string of them and start the next slide from a higher level.

But if it's just humans that tick you off then keep away from them!

Also, if everyone you meet is unpleasant then maybe they're all having the same crappy experience?

Northwind, that's a brilliant link! Thanks for providing a chink of light in this dark corner.
(and that scaring people with your not wanting to continue jokes, Never goes down as well as it sounds in your head! :D)

As for the off button, far too temptingly easy.
Now a boost button for renewing the power to keep fighting when you've got nothing left to battle with?
Sweet mother of bunnies yes!

Not sure I'd press an off switch, as others have said it would leave too much of a trail of devasation behind with others lives. I do take comfort in suicide being the ultimate "get out clause" if it does get too much, but I doubt I'd ever actually go through with it.

One thing I often day dream about though is the possibility of rewriting history without me in it. A bit like "The Inquisitor" episode on Red Dwarf. Giving the millions of sperm/eggs the chance that I got.

Unfortunately it won't. Tomorrow there will still be just as many dishonest and/or uncaring and/or ignorant humans getting in my way as there were today. Ad infinitum.

You can't know this for sure and this might not be the OP's problem.

You can't know this for sure and this might not be the OP's problem.

I don't know that unicorns, mermaids and ghosts aren't real for sure, but as a semi-educated semi-intelligent person I use experience mixed with known facts and probability to come to that conclusion. Quod erat demonstrandum.

I wasn't suggesting it was the OPs problem, I was merely pointing out an undeniable fact.

And just as many decent folks as today too.

Quite probably.

The ratio might still be crap but it isn't in actuality as bleak as mine and/or yours brains will make out.

I think that's very subjective, and obviously related to the situation one is in at any given time.

It's quite surprisimg how much lying in the back of an ambulance with the blue light flashing, a gas mask on and wires and crap stuck to you can make you realise how much you appreciate some things.

You shouldn't be surprised to learn that not everyone who has that experience comes to that same conclusion. People are different, Vive la différence!

I don't know that unicorns, mermaids and ghosts aren't real for sure, but as a semi-educated semi-intelligent person I use experience mixed with known facts and probability to come to that conclusion. Quod erat demonstrandum.
I wasn't suggesting it was the OPs problem, I was merely pointing out an undeniable fact.[/quote

From your experience and perspective perhaps.

 

I visited the Osteopath recently. Try it - its amazing how 'new' you feel post-visit.

i'd opt for a turbo button.

Yes. I felt like that 4 years ago and it was only my bikes, left scattered around the house, that kept me going. In my mind, bikes meant smiles.

The downside of my experience is that I've become a right argumentative cah as well as totally distrustful of certain people.

I dream about alt-tab. So I could switch to a different life whilst my body and brain continue with this one. Not that mine's bad, but it'd be nice to be able to try different ones.

Thought about switching off completely a few times when life sucked (from birth to adult) and I got ill. Glad I didn't have that button as I would have missed some better times.

A Pause switch on a timer every now and then would have had a lot of use. And a Tardis for quick escape and unravelling mystery.

i'd opt for a turbo button.

My body already starts to look like that switch was flicked. I now need slow trickle feed into a switch back.
Tried a turbo switch on the brain once, drains too many cells and they're hard to replace when obsolete 😯

Yes, 4 weeks ago yesterday I would have. A couple of times since again too but but feeling a bit better now with a lovely snuggly puppy to cuddle.