[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. 🙁