If the damned soul persists as an incorporeal or indestructible substance, the causal mechanism by which suicide produces death is absent, making successful self-annihilation metaphysically impossible regardless of intent.
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Something that cannot be broken down, destroyed, or cease to exist, no matter what happens to it.
self-annihilation(Benjamin's account of authentic critical judgement, contrasted with Romantic criticism)
The essential negative moment of completion that authentic judgement must involve; the critical act through which a work or judgement negates and completes itself.