Can you kill yourself with your thoughts?

I wouldn't doubt it. Your subconscious is a powerful thing. You gotta think, your brain controls your body and your subconscious is mostly out of your control. If your subconscious decides it doesn't want to live anymore, seems reasonable it could tell your brain to shut something vital down.
 
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Most useful form of that is probably reducing the ego and the complexes associated. It's pretty useful though you get into weird territory if overdone. Definitely feels like a bit of a death.
 
I read somewhere that people in India fast, man. And, that it makes them think better. And, sometimes they can actually think themselves to death, man
 
No. Old people are bad about dyeing not long after they lose their life partner, but the death isn't mental, it is purely biological. They mentally lose the will to live and will basically sit in one spot mourning without food or drink until their body naturally dies from lack of nourishment or provide themselves with less than adequate nourishment as their mind is in torment and slowly die. It is the mental state that drives it, but it is biological processes that spell their doom. That or they just kill themselves. Family support is critical.
 
Probably not, of by killing yourself you mean just "switching off".

The autonomous nervous system (the parts that control your breathing and heartbeat for example) are automatic, and require no input to function from a conscious mind. Clinically brain dead patients, for example, have no higher order brain functions or subconscious ones, but can still be kept alive so long as they have a respirator; their hearts will continue to beat so long as oxygen is present.

Now, if you want to think of a very bizarre hypothetical, it could be possible to 'murder' yourself if one had Alien Hand Syndrome, and the rogue arm wished harm upon you and access to a weapon.
 
Yes, I can 100% confirm that you can kill yourself with a thought, but I have only done this once.
 
I suppose in theory you could simply throw in the towel and give up life. But will yourself to death you don't wake up? I don't think it works like that.
 
I mean there is
  • Sokushinbutsu, by which a monk decides to observe asceticism to the point of death and entering mummification while alive.
  • Stressing years off of your life
  • Ego Death, by drugs called Dissociatives
  • When your life-long spouse dies they say that it is common to never do certain actions again because your brain has literally atrophied away in parts here and there over a half century of relying on the other person, that is a partial death of a sort
Otherwise no, I wouldn't think so. There is too much parallelism in the brain, we only notice it when we are racked with indecision but you can hold a remarkable number of separate opinions and not forget any of them until you come to a decision. Second- third- or fourth-guessing yourself trying to solve a problem is quite an odd mental state but I imagine because of the noise and multiple opinions in your head a small number of neuron clusters are always thinking about dying as a good idea. Just not the same neuron clusters, and not that popularly amongst all the neurons of your head until you notice you're contemplating killing yourself. Self-destruct wouldn't have much evolutionary advantages, genes want to persist and killing yourself suddenly just isn't often useful regardless of the hell you might find yourself stuck in.

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Definately not.
There's all the scientific explanations here but you'd think that if people could just hit the Suicide key, torturing people for information (or just torturing people in general like in guantanamo bay) would be useless?
 
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Cup Noodle said:
No. Old people are bad about dyeing not long after they lose their life partner, but the death isn't mental, it is purely biological. They mentally lose the will to live and will basically sit in one spot mourning without food or drink until their body naturally dies from lack of nourishment or provide themselves with less than adequate nourishment as their mind is in torment and slowly die. It is the mental state that drives it, but it is biological processes that spell their doom. That or they just kill themselves. Family support is critical.
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That's not psychogenic death. Psychogenic death has a physical component to it in the sense of chemicals and effects on the cardiovascular system, but it's not starving yourself/thirsting yourself to death, nor is it shock -> heart attack -> die. It's something that's been observed, humans and animals, where somebody suffers some terrible news, digests it, goes off, and then dies. Often it happens to old people, but it's been known to happen to healthy young people within a day.
 
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