The reason I choose to continue living is that I only have one chance to inhabit a mortal body in this world so I’d like to see it through for as long as I can. What’s yours?
I don’t choose. To continue living is just the default, and time keeps passing, so I’m alive by inaction…
Choosing the default is still a choice. Why is the default better than the alternative in your opinion? Please don’t answer that question or even consider it unless you already have an answer. I would rather not have to ask this myself to be honest.
I’d argue “choosing the default” is not what’s going on here. If you don’t have mental health issues, you don’t think that much about living/not living, it just is what it is.
It’s be like saying I’m choosing not to listen to 80s Korean funk, or choosing not to go ski to the Himalaya. I literally don’t care, and I haven’t chosen “not to”, because I literally haven’t given it any thought.
Actually, 80s Korean funk sounds rad, I should give it a listen.
I don’t have a full answer, so I won’t try to answer it right now, but I will surely think about it during the next days.
to spite entropy
Cheers, mate.
Honestly? Not sure. More afraid of missing out than anything else.
I want to know what happens
Same
No spoilers though!
Can’t afford to die; it’s like $2700 just to dig the fucking hole!
Thanks for the reminder. I’ll make sure they know my body belongs in the trash can (in a few decades).
On this overpopulated planet, burying the dead seems like the biggest, most expensive waste…
Mate you can send my corpse feet first through a wood chipper and fertilise a veggie crop… But it’s not legal.
So at some stage my family is going to have to make a choice and fork out a stupid amount of money.
Suicide is easy. And painless. You can be dead before you feel anything. If you haven’t figured that out or have some other excuse, you’re not really ready to go yet. Try to find out why.
I ain’t going yet cuz I got shit to do.
That being said, I’ll never live long enough to retire. Tapping out long before that.
Suicide is easy. And painless.
It also brings on many changes.
because dying is painful!!!
Why wouldn’t I? We are living in interesting times.
Sheer bloody-mindedness.
I feel you on this. I often feel I’m living for pure spite.
im a garden and landscape builder and my greatest pleasure in life is seeing things grow and progress.
a few months ago I connected with a group of incredibly nice people and seeing these people grow every day of their life, bringing in new people and change with them, that is my lifeline right now.
if I was to reincarnate, please let me be a hobbit in the 4th age.
Silksong
I don’t.
I shot myself in the head last fall and just woke up like nothing had happened. Then I promptly experienced a powerful mandela effect. The most powerful and undeniable one in my life (because the thing that changed is something I had experienced in its “old” version a few days before I did the deed).
I’m pretty sure what that means is that when I die, I transition to the nearest universe where I didn’t.
It made me realize that I might be here an extremely long time, and that leaving is not an option no matter how dark it gets.
Since then, I have had a gusto and commitment to life that I never had before. I’ve been kind of suicidal my whole life. Always keeping it in the back of my head: if things get bad enough, I’ll just go.
But now my escape boats are burned, and my only choice is forward.
The experience has actually been really wonderful. It’s so much easier to get myself moving. I just remind myself that if I don’t take care of my shit now, the next ten thousand years are really gonna suck.
I have a chance, albeit a very small one, to make the world a place other people don’t want to exit if I’m alive. Can’t do that if I’m dead. But I would probably want to be euthanised if I started living a painful or disabled life.
I like the first half of your comment, but the second is really hard to swallow. I guess you meant “severe” or “debilitatingly” painful/disabled life, and I don’t think you meant malice in what you’re saying - but I know some people living with disabilities that would see your comment as calling them worthless.
Oh no, I’m not saying anyone should feel any way, this is just my preference. And I did mean severe pain or disability, yes.
I thought I’d just travel a bit and do nothing until I’m broke before I end it, but life was great then. Now I’ve sacrificed 10+ years trying to save some money for who knows what. Got to make it worth the sacrifice before I go
By default life is meaningless, and I wanna make it meaningful
