Welcome to the home page of the world's premier death cult, Voidsect, created by the illustrious lungfish. Here you will find the answers to all of life's questions.
This cult is centered around the Heat Death of the Universe (HDU) and its implications for ethics, metaphysics, &c. Also called simply the "Void", the HDU is the foremost problem that human beings will ever face.
Religion is generally unsatisfactory because it is made up of human myths which are imaginary. Void cultists believe in complete fidelity to Truth and as such cannot accept any belief which is not actually true. However, there is some room for the divine as we shall see later.
There is no need to hasten death. If a person really wants to — mainly if they are enduring terrible pain and are likely to for the rest of their lives — they should be allowed a painless means of doing so. Voidists value life because it is precious and enjoyable.
Due to the second law of thermodynamics, specifically entropy, physicists determined the inevitable fate of the universe around the 1850s. This knowledge has had a tremendous psychological effect on everyone who learns about it, as on the surface it appears to make all future hope for life impossible. All matter will be destroyed and all life will end; there is no way around it. So long as the laws of physics hold, the universe will be cold and barren for all of eternity. The idea is such an unpleasant infohazard that it is generally regarded as inappropriate to bring up, and as such people either try to forget about it or even willfully delude themselves to not think about it.
We should develop a philosophical system for addressing the problem. Below I will discuss various conclusions that I have come to and my reasoning for them. I believe that once people accept these teachings that the problem will no longer pose a serious threat to our well-being.
While it appears that entropy will in fact destroy everything, it's not certainly the case that this has to be permanent. In general the laws of physics seem to be inviolable, but there is one notable exception, which is the creation of the universe itself. All matter was once packed tightly and then the process of expansion began. What occurred before that is mysterious, and where the matter came from is unknown, as well as why it started expanding. Many people thus speculate that there might be some sort of realm outside of the universe from which the universe was originally created. If so, it's possible that this external realm might potentially reshape matter once again. This hope, that the Void might come to an end at some point, and that life might return, is generally enough to overcome the despair one might otherwise experience from contemplating total non-existence.
While this is certainly possible, as we have made many mistakes and there remains much we don't know about how the universe functions, I don't believe that this idea grants much comfort because it causes an epistemological problem in which we pretty much cannot believe anything at all. It's best to assume our current model of physics is correct until we obtain evidence that something about it is wrong.
Now we must address the problem of morals. From the Void we learn that everything is fleeting, but also that hope is necessary. We can conclude then that anything which deprives people of hope, i.e., despair-oriented "Doomer" thinking, is a form of evil. We can also conclude that taking things too seriously and being intense is bad, because everything is destined to end. Thus logically the proper moral behavior is to be laid back and relaxed at all times.