Quadist's dilemma.

[°Leprechaun]

This may sound a little crazy, but there is a
method to my madness.

Suppose the following scenario.

I have decided that it is wrong to take my own life,
at least until I reach the age of one thousand years.

I reach the age of 1000 and have aged backwards to
a happy healthy 37 year old body.

I am presented with the question of whether to live
or to risk death. There is exactly a 50% chance that
there is some sort of afterlife.

What do I do?

I.
Continue to live and enjoy an indefinate life span,
to a million years a billion years onward
perhaps forever.

II.
Risk death.

Is this a catch 22 or not?

[Associate Justice PiT]

     It depends on your reason for stipulating that you would be willing to self-terminate at the age of 1,000.

[°Leprechaun]

    It depends on your reason for stipulating that you would be willing to self-terminate at the age of 1,000.

Good question. I wasn't actually saying that I would self-terminate so much as that I would be willing to take the risk, although I don't know what that would entail.
My point is that if there is an afterlife, death wouldn't be such a bad thing and the reason to want to live forever in the current reality be gone. The dilemma is how will I ever know that there is an afterlife unless I "die" (which technically wouldn't be death if I lived on in some supernatural reality)? If I can't know one way or the other, why would I want to risk death since it might be the loss of life, without an afterlife.

[°Leprechaun]

Also, if it could be proven, somehow, that there is an afterlife, then why am I here in this reality in the first place?

[True Federalist (진정한 연방 주의자)]

Also, if it could be proven, somehow, that there is an afterlife, then why am I here in this reality in the first place?

Every conception of an afterlife I've ever heard of has that your actions in this reality determines your starting point in the next life. That's true regardless of whether you believe in a singular afterlife or in a series of reincarnations ending in some desired final state with no further reincarnations.

[Ban my account ffs!]

Also, if it could be proven, somehow, that there is an afterlife, then why am I here in this reality in the first place?

Either because you fell or because you were created by the fallen and they have imprisoned you in the flesh to serve a life sentence where they hide the truth from you, keeping you here begging for more out of a sense of uncertainty and an overwhelming fear that this is all there is.

Just sayin'