"Congratulations on your new baby! We wanted to inform you that there's currently a $213,950 balance on their student loans due from their previous life. We've transferred the debt to their name and their credit is already in the toilet."

Are you kidding me I'm not gonna repeat all the time I've already served.

Life sucks?

Have you tried turning it off and on again?

I'm pretty sure in Buddha, where the concept of reincarnation comes from, suicide would negatively affect the karma, which would affect how one would reincarnate. CMIIW tho

The short story collection/sorta novel Haunted ends with the discovery that the planet Venus (I think? Might have been Jupiter) is essentially an eternal awesome orgy heaven, which everyone will eventually end up reincarnating on when they die. So everyone on earth essentially decides to kill themselves. Stores have to start locking up suicide kits because people will just take them in the store and die before paying.

That entire thing is fucked up. I read it somewhere around sophomore year of high school and existentially traumatized me. There are stories in there that somehow 4chan shock image level in just written words.

Frankly I think there’s already a gap on this with religious belief. If SO many people truly believe in god and an afterlife, there should be more suicides. Okay, it’s a sin. Fine. But then why aren’t people happier when a relative passes? It’s almost like no one actually really believes this shit at the end of the day.

Technically reincarnation is for realsies. Your bits and pieces will be used by nature again.

But you don’t retain your memories from the previous life, and what if you are reborn as someone who has a worse life and isn’t aware they can do it again?

For a moment i read Suicide rats would likely rise sharply if reincarnation were ever proven. and i'll just leave it at that.

Good band name, callin' it.

If I could be a bumblebee for 12 seconds I'd do it

It would depend on how reincarnation works. Do I know I'll be reborn in a better life? They say the grass is always greener, everyone has problems and perceives others as better off. My old guidance counselor's husband said that if everyone sat in a circle, wrote down their problems, put them in a hat, and randomly drew other people's problems, everyone would want their own problems back

Maybe it does and the queue is so long we just forget about our old life by the time our number comes up

I read a short story back in college about a woman who helped people remember their past lives. Somehow she gets transported to a universe where reincarnation is completely real and everyone remembers all their previous past lives. Suicide was rampant and the world generally sucked. She somehow transitions to helping people forget their past lives to make the world a better place. I really wish I could remember the title of the story.

If I had to go through my childhood and resulting alienated adulthood again, I'd try to delay death as long as possible to NOT go through it.

Come on big money, no whammies… awww sheep liver fluke again

Would it count as suicide anymore?

I highly doubt it. Believers say that when a person dies, their memories are pretty much obliterated. So even if someone is going to be reborn, who they were no longer exists.

And get chopped up in the bardo to return as a tapeworm? I don't think so, you're supposed to meditate so hard you return as a lotus flower

Cultists are already kinda like that, even christians that believe in the afterlife. They don't care if they're destroying the environment, because the real life begins after the current one.

What is reincarnation without memory? It's nothing. The same as it is without reincarnation. The same nothing as exists now.