Do you wish to continue?

[tiltbillings]

[dhamma_newb]

Tier three sucks. I do not wish to continue.

[James the Giant]

Ooh chilling.
It reminds me of an Ian Banks novel where the Culture goes to war to stop various civilizations from running virtual, simulated hells, where good or bad deeds are punished or rewarded by the torment of digitized personalities after death.
And in a virtual world, there's nothing to stop someone being tortured to death, again and again and again.

[Rui Sousa]

Great satyre. But the question is very meaninguful. Do I wish to continue experiencing life? The honest answer is yes

Not proud of it anymore, but I really want to be alive and have a body and mind just as this one. And so I do.

[daverupa]

Is it possible to meditate while remaining on the menu screen?

[Kim O'Hara]

Ooh chilling.
It reminds me of an Ian Banks novel where the Culture goes to war to stop various civilizations from running virtual, simulated hells, where good or bad deeds are punished or rewarded by the torment of digitized personalities after death.
And in a virtual world, there's nothing to stop someone being tortured to death, again and again and again.

There are other SF treatments, too. One you may have missed (especially since it was a debut novel) is The Quantum Thief by Hannu Rajaniemi. It opens in a prison in which the lead character is forced to endlessly play the Prisoner's Dilemma game (co-operate or defect?) against multiple copies of himself, or other beings, and dies painfully when he loses, only to be brought back to life. (It does get better, but also weirder.)
Greg Egan has also written some great stories about what might happen if we go silicon.

To answer the OP: Yes, of course. It may be crooked but (so far as I know) it's the only game in town.


Kim

[suttametta]

There are many other worlds than this one. No need to cling to life here under such conditions. I, for one, am not afraid to die.

[Alex123]

Why exist? Just let me die already! Life has difficulties as it is, so why continue and pay for it?

[manas]

Great satyre. But the question is very meaninguful. Do I wish to continue experiencing life? The honest answer is yes

Not proud of it anymore, but I really want to be alive and have a body and mind just as this one. And so I do.

I feel that way also. But remember that one can enter the stream that leads to Nibbana, and although bhava-tanha is not fully abandoned at that stage, at least we would have shut the door on reappearance in the animal, ghostly or hell realms, permanently. Let's enter the stream that leads inexorably to Nibbana...

[Sam Vara]

If I pay a big enough supplement, can they get me stream entry?

[Ben]

well that was interesting, thanks Tilt!

[Reductor]

Surely such a service would be opt-in, right? Or opt-out at least.

Then it would be easier to make that decision when one is sure they'll live forever, thus avoiding such a miserable proposition when the inevitable happens.