{"id":590,"date":"2025-03-15T17:17:39","date_gmt":"2025-03-15T15:17:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/diurnsky.com\/?p=590"},"modified":"2025-03-15T17:44:57","modified_gmt":"2025-03-15T15:44:57","slug":"590","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/diurnsky.com\/?p=590","title":{"rendered":""},"content":{"rendered":"\n
Did it really happen? Or was it my imagination? I sometimes ask myself these questions. It can be difficult to tell apart.

I think I really had a conversation with someone who thought about committing suicide by hanging themselves. I asked them, \"Don't you know a person's muscles become so relaxed they basically pee and defecate all over themselves? Wouldn't you be embarrassed?\"

\"Of course I wouldn't,\" they replied. \"I'd be dead. Dead people don't care, can't care about such things.\"

It made perfect sense. But it also didn't. And I wasn't immediately sure why. Only now, many years after that conversation, did I give it proper thought.

If I knew they'd never try anything like that and were merely exploring the ideas, I'd inquire further: \"On the premise you won't care what happens when you're dead, would you consider killing yourself by turning on a gas stove? This method would take you far less effort. There is just one downside. When people enter your apartments, they may trigger a massive explosion that will kill or maim them and your neighbors. But, like you've said, you'd be dead and thus wouldn't care, couldn't care about anything.\"

I'd expect a negative answer. People care about the future, regardless of whether they will be dead in it or not. Corpses can't feel anything. That's true. But that's also irrelevant. The person I was talking to while being alive considered the kind of future in which they make people stare at a mess acceptable, but the kind of future in which they make people explode not.

Is that it? Or is there anything deeper than that? It's a shame I couldn't immediately see through it. And even after some thought, it's not an entirely open book.<\/pre>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Did it really happen? Or was it my imagination? I sometimes ask myself these questions. It can be difficult to tell apart.I think I really had a conversation with someone who thought about committing suicide by hanging themselves. I asked them, “Don’t you know a person’s muscles become so relaxed they basically pee and defecate […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/diurnsky.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/590"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/diurnsky.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/diurnsky.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/diurnsky.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/diurnsky.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=590"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/diurnsky.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/590\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":595,"href":"https:\/\/diurnsky.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/590\/revisions\/595"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/diurnsky.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=590"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/diurnsky.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=590"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/diurnsky.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=590"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}