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?
to spite entropy
Cheers, mate.
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.
I want to know what happens
No spoilers though!
Same
My mom couldn’t handle that. I also think there is still enough cool things to experience even though the world is going to shit right now.
Dog.
I’ll be getting a dog soon. Thanks for this, it’s too easy to forget how cool dogs are when you don’t have one.
They really are the best companions, but you get as much as you put in.
Because why not? I’m alive by default, and I’m too lazy to change that.
I stick around because (like some other people here) I want to live to see or even better help discovery the set of rules that underly the universe, see the stars even if just in photos, see what humanity is capable at its best, create anything that comes to mind, and learn everything I can. If the reason I dont want to live is the world around me (which it is) then I’d rather go out fighting, trying to change things rather than giving up outright (as a sidenote I wish someone created a place for people like this to meet and converse I see y’all scattered around the place but I can’t find a singular congregation spot). I mean I have what could either be classified as very well thought out delusions of grandeur or long term plans for a sort of immortality and if there’s the slimmest chance I can achieve that then I’m gonna shoot for it, and if I die trying then I get to die knowing I contributed to science in some hopefully big ways. So in summary I live to spite the world we live in and for the admittedly astronomically low chance I achieve my insane goal as the reasons for not living all relate to not having enough time and being restrained to a material world. Writing it out loud it’s quite convoluted.
“I wish someone created a place for people like this to meet and converse I see y’all scattered around the place but I can’t find a singular congregation spot”
I feel you, it is all about getting together locally.
What is important is that We are here, we love life and want to live for the better!
DM are welcome!
Maybe I’m doing something wrong or I’m not in the right places but I attend, lead projects and socialize at my college’s physics, robotics, and engineering clubs, but the likeminded people I do find either aren’t very social or aren’t compatible with eachother. Thats not to say I dont get a small group going every once and awhile its just the overall pattern is people graduate, drift off, and any new members… to put it kindly, dont exercise the same level of critical thinking.
Maybe I’m just in the wrong places, college is a joke afterall, but I’m just curious if this is the kinda thing you ment by locally or not.
I want to see what comes next.
We live in interesting times!
This is actually my primary motivation. I have some morbid curiosity about what we’re going to do to ourselves next.
sunk cost fallacy. i’m in too deep to stop now. really, this is how i manage everything. once the smallest amount of time has been invested in something there’s no stopping til i see it through.
have you tried gambling? you might really enjoy that one
noooo, never. because i know myself i have a hard rule to never ever try gambling, casinos, and the like.
The most effective ways to die sound painful, and even for the “painless” ones, if you fuck it up you either suffer way too long or get slapped with insane medical debt and locked up in a loony bin for a ehile (usa). While I don’t fear death itself or have a strong emotional attachment to the life I’m living right now, my life’s in no way bad, so it’s still an easy choice for me.
- this most likely is my only life, unless reincarnation is real
- tons of people probably want me dead, so I stay alive to piss them off
- I want to see what happens next
- I can help to make other people’s lives a little bit better
- among all the pain and misery, there are lots of good things to enjoy
- I’ll get there eventually, no need to rush
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.
Silksong
I’m a coward.
I’m here too and in my case I’m damn sure it’s something other than cowardice. I know I’d sacrifice myself in less than a second given the opportunity and I even know how I would, but I haven’t. There’s a reason we’re still around even if we don’t know it consciously.
If I had a turn off button on my back like a toy I would had pushed it long ago…
Suicide is too painful. That’s it. Also my mom’s food still nice.
