So assuming you have good evidence of eldritch abominations what is the best suicide method? I’m guessing anything that really scrambles your information right. Please keep in mind practicality. Really powerful explosives seem hard to obtain. Having someone dispose of your body after suicide seems an ok but risky option.
Sufficiently clever eldritch abominations should be able to reconstruct you from very little material.
Your brain, of course, must be entirely destroyed.
It’s safer to destroy the rest of your nervous system, which might also contain information.
Your genetic material and records of your actions (e.g. your comments on the Internet) are individually insufficient to deduce you, but I’m not so sure about the combination.
So first you want to erase as much information about yourself as you can. Take down everything you put on the Internet, burn everything you wrote, exert your right to delete personal information everywhere you have such a right.
You’ll also want to distort other people’s memories of you. (Or kill them too, but then we get recursive and reprehensible.) If you have sufficient time, you might do a few hugely out of character things and then isolate yourself completely. Maybe suggest a few false memories first.
There’s probably nothing you can do about leaving DNA everywhere. At least try not to have kids.
Fire could work, but you’re likely to burn incompletely. I suggest going out to a remote, hot area (think Amazonian jungle), obscuring your starting location as much as you can, going as far out as you can, and dying by having your head crushed or a bullet to the head. By the time someone notices your disappearance, figures out where you went, searches the area, and finds your body, you should have rotten completely.
If the eldritch abominations are coming right now and you don’t have time for that, yeah, just jump into an incinerator. You should find one of these by following a garbage truck.
(Also, you okay, kid? This is just silly, Deep-Ones-dancing-on-the-head-of-a-pin musing, right? You can message me if you need to.)
Your genetic material and records of your actions (e.g. your comments on the Internet) are individually insufficient to deduce you, but I’m not so sure about the combination.
Take down everything you put on the Internet, burn everything you wrote, exert your right to delete personal information everywhere you have such a right.
Unfortunately, I’m afraid that in my case I’d have to at least nuke Facebook’s servers. I used not to worry about possible future eldritch abominations at all because I thought if I saw them coming I could just guillotine my head into a fireplace or something, but now that I realize that they could likely still reconstruct a sufficient-fidelity copy of me, I do worry a little about not pissing them off. Unfortunately I barely have any idea about what would piss them off, so all in all I don’t behave that differently than I used to, as per the standard atheist reply to Pascal’s wager. Also, I don’t think such abominations are that likely.
So assuming you have good evidence of eldritch abominations what is the best suicide method? I’m guessing anything that really scrambles your information right. Please keep in mind practicality. Really powerful explosives seem hard to obtain. Having someone dispose of your body after suicide seems an ok but risky option.
Fire?
Sufficiently clever eldritch abominations should be able to reconstruct you from very little material.
Your brain, of course, must be entirely destroyed.
It’s safer to destroy the rest of your nervous system, which might also contain information.
Your genetic material and records of your actions (e.g. your comments on the Internet) are individually insufficient to deduce you, but I’m not so sure about the combination.
So first you want to erase as much information about yourself as you can. Take down everything you put on the Internet, burn everything you wrote, exert your right to delete personal information everywhere you have such a right.
You’ll also want to distort other people’s memories of you. (Or kill them too, but then we get recursive and reprehensible.) If you have sufficient time, you might do a few hugely out of character things and then isolate yourself completely. Maybe suggest a few false memories first.
There’s probably nothing you can do about leaving DNA everywhere. At least try not to have kids.
Fire could work, but you’re likely to burn incompletely. I suggest going out to a remote, hot area (think Amazonian jungle), obscuring your starting location as much as you can, going as far out as you can, and dying by having your head crushed or a bullet to the head. By the time someone notices your disappearance, figures out where you went, searches the area, and finds your body, you should have rotten completely.
If the eldritch abominations are coming right now and you don’t have time for that, yeah, just jump into an incinerator. You should find one of these by following a garbage truck.
(Also, you okay, kid? This is just silly, Deep-Ones-dancing-on-the-head-of-a-pin musing, right? You can message me if you need to.)
I’m starting to wonder whether one of the reasons why Roko deleted all of his comments was that he didn’t want to leave too many horcruxes behind.
Thank you for the excellent comment.
This is what most worries me.
Unfortunately, I’m afraid that in my case I’d have to at least nuke Facebook’s servers. I used not to worry about possible future eldritch abominations at all because I thought if I saw them coming I could just guillotine my head into a fireplace or something, but now that I realize that they could likely still reconstruct a sufficient-fidelity copy of me, I do worry a little about not pissing them off. Unfortunately I barely have any idea about what would piss them off, so all in all I don’t behave that differently than I used to, as per the standard atheist reply to Pascal’s wager. Also, I don’t think such abominations are that likely.
I kinda think that we shouldn’t make this forum into a place to give people advice about ways on how best to kill themselves.