No it isn't. It's a fundamental misunderstanding of how evolution works to suggest we're programmed for a purpose — Benkei
Getting killed being unpleasant is debatable and pleasant feelings don't make life worthwhile just tolerable. — Darkneos
Also it sounds horrifying to think that all these drives out of your control keep you here when you don't want to be. — Darkneos
Perhaps not for you.Why indeed but that's not really an argument to continue living. — Darkneos
Also "unjust", "unnecessary"? That's casting an awful lot of assumptions onto existence. — Darkneos
since a universe with life is just as purposeless as one without it. There is no ultimately point to existence, it simply persists. — Darkneos
But you're in the wrong here. I universe without life sounds amazing. I would like to "live" in it, ironic I know, to bask in the absolute silence of it all. For however long I last, and then know with my death extinction of all life would at last occur — Darkneos
The purpose is inferred from facts as they stand/appear to us. Objection sustained! — Agent Smith
Having a lively imagination is no excuse to misunderstand what possible interpretations exist. Biological facts do not support a teleological interpretation. Period. — Benkei
No, that's just a claim. There is nothing to say the world wouldn't end if I died. — Darkneos
Transhumanism is literally death anxiety. — Darkneos
Hope is little more than delusion that promises what it can't deliver. — Darkneos
Transhumanism is literally death anxiety. — Darkneos
Nonesense! — universeness
Actually yes since it's less painful — Darkneos
Well, you won't ever experience death. Death is simply, "The end". You'll experience dying if you're conscious at the time. But that's it. There is no peace, no rest, no etc. — Philosophim
This has nothing to do with peace in life, it's about the cessation of all things. — Darkneos
If society had a different mind they'd see that and allow people to exit if they choose.
Physician-assisted suicide is legal in some countries, under certain circumstances, including Austria, Belgium, Canada, Germany, Luxembourg, the Netherlands, New Zealand, Spain, Switzerland, parts of the United States and parts of Australia.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Assisted_suicide
I guess people only rationalize living by stating "precious joys are worth cherishing" is due to death anxiety, as Ernest Becker put it. — Darkneos
Imagination is good, but living at the moment requires courage. That's it. Courage to face the mundane and the ordinary. — L'éléphant
Escapism has flourished over the last last decade or so.
The philosopher replied, "Since there's no difference between being alive and being dead, why should I go to the trouble?" — Torus34
The obsession with suicide is characteristic of the man who can neither live nor die, and whose attention never swerves from this double impossibility.
When people come to me saying they want to kill themselves, I tell them, "What's your rush? You can kill yourself any time you like. So calm down. Suicide is a positive act." And they do calm down.
Only optimists commit suicide, the optimists who can no longer be . . . optimists. The others, having no reason to live, why should they have any to die?
It is not worth the bother of killing yourself, since you always kill yourself too late.
I shall name this village Melancholia, which sits in a flood prone depression next to the River Angst. The dark clouds are confined in the valley by the heights of Mount Despair and Mount Regret, where a true rain never falls, just an eternal cold drizzle.
Only one small path leads out, but its trailhead can only be seen by casting one's gaze above shoulder height, and none have yet looked that high up. They've heard of this Path of Hope, but never having seen it, they scoff and shrug, looking at the ground, firmly denying it. — Hanover
Yes, but it exists to gather all the anti-life stuff in one place, so that it can be easily ignored. Until Baden merged them all into this thread, there were at least two or three such active discussions. We've had enough. Containment seems like the best option. — Jamal
What causes life to turn on life? — ChatteringMonkey
Life is somewhat of an ouroboros (prey-predator, food web). Death (destruction/0) works against with Birth (creation/1)! — Agent Smith
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