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 want to know what happens
No spoilers though!
Same
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.
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.
Because why not? I’m alive by default, and I’m too lazy to change that.
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.
I did not choose the living life, the living life chose me.
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.
Too a stupid to die.
I’m not sure whether I’m too stupid one way or the other, but at least I know I’m stupid.
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.
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Because for all the suffering and horrific ugliness, there is still beauty and joy. The smile of a neighbor, the red-headed woodpeckers and their mates that visit, the stray cat that hangs out, my adult child’s “I love you,” and sharing of joys and challenges. My fur baby’s cuddles, my dear friends’ messages from afar. A walk at dusk in summers, sunsets and sunrises, the sound of rain and thunder, the call of tree frogs, watching deer walk and rabbits and squirrel play. A cool breeze, the taste of water, a berry, home made relish from my neighbors, laughing, crying, and emotions that can’t be articulated but explored. Being at peace with myself.
I need to set my kids up with a better start than I had.
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.
I love my husband and my cats
