Something which came up on "I want to pop for real" thread:
I think it's clear that if someone in the prime of life and with everything to look forward to would, I very much hope, not go through with any plan to inflate themselves until they popped for real. Not only would it mean they missed out on a fruitful and enjoyable life in all sorts of ways, but it would also devastate people close to them and probably have terrible repercussions for the rest of us.
However:
One thought I have had about this is that if I am unlucky enough to be diagnosed with a fairly slow terminal or otherwise serious illness which was not initially incapacitating but would eventually make my life unbearable, I might well just decide to inflate myself to bursting for real. This has several advantages:
- It means you're not afraid of dying because in advance you can think of it as orgasmic even if it turned out not to be.
- It's a form of euthanasia.
- You or someone else would get to find out what would really happen.
- You can use the prospect that one day it really will happen to you to make your fantasies even more enjoyable, e.g. you can look down at your body and think "one day this really will blow up like a balloon until I pop".
- Actually doing it would at least initially be absolutely awesome.
- It could reflect badly on other people with this fetish.
- It might be horrible for the people closest to you and also embarrassing, and awful for anyone who found your remains.
- What if it turned out to be absolutely horrible and disappointingly ineffective?
I personally think that the cons outweigh the pros. The biggest one being that it sounds incredibly painful, I mean you're literally overfilling your stomach until it fucking explodes. Good on paper, Bad on the field.
Regardless, This makes for some fantastic writing fuel. I'll have to write this concept down, It's really quality.
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