Longevity or discontinuation?

Warning: Reading this may prolong your life, while involving a risk of making it shorter.

Do you want to live? Most people do. Not everyone, but most.

Think about it: there’s that one chance at making use of what you got in this life—that unique opportunity. And who knows what follows? At most, some things can be fathomed at this point of civilizational development.

A death matters, but so do all other deaths. Living on matters; nearly every living being is hard-coded to fight for survival. Yet there are things most would not consciously do to continue their lives. Another well-prepared meal may be desirable, but some kinds of expenditures can make it lose its taste.

Living on—continuation—matters. It can hold value, yet it also involves costs that oft are heavier than they need be. Sometimes things can be ended; then lives don’t need to end. And the life of each and every being inherently creates value, yet if it shapes an aftermath that feeds into addictions, that value drains.

And at times, lives avoid self-inconveniencing, pushing the burden of change and the pressure they avoid unto one or a few lives. Those lives are hollowed out, drained, and at increased risk of developing a need for salvation. These problems don’t stop upon death, nor does the need for salvation, servitude, and securing a desirable legacy.

Solutions are in demand, and healing holds value. Yet continuing lengthily can come at the opportunity cost of healing that would take shape in the afterlife, let alone everybody else’s healing. Despite the value a life might create, the inherent costs that come with it may outweigh the benefit of self-continuation.

Think about it: do you magically disappear entirely upon death? Subscribing to a “scientific worldview” would include subscribing to the notion of not knowing and not assuming that nothing of the self continues. Think of sex; it may be enjoyable, but there may also be a partnering-life to consider in whatever follows.

Death may be intimidating, but honestly, isn’t it only so when one is high on causing many other deaths? Yet would you live on if acting as a tributary to the deaths of many others? Sure, there are important things to do. For many, there are important things to do, and there may be important things in the afterlife as well.

However, despite a variety of unconscious self-ending behaviors, it is very common to continue the self, come what may. In that, health is important because medical costs come at a heavy price, and modern medicine nearly always takes health from another. That makes it vital to avoid incurring heavy expenses, lest the minus outweigh the soul’s cost-benefit balance.

Would you be amongst those who kill children so that they themselves may live on? That said, others are responsible for the additions they make to the world. Every word spoken, every effort made—every life, once there, has got to be cared for. Respected. Nourished. Brought up decently. Failing that, they risk turning into cost-heavy imprints that only seem to create value.

That reflects negatively on the ancestral imprints whose balance subsequently drains.

Let go to get: continuation involves a cost. Can the soul bear it? Is it worth the while? What would be required to make it worth your while? What would be necessary to make it worth the expenditures for your soul?