But what if I want to die.

Well, a therapist isn’t the person to turn to for a bias-free opinion. He (or she) is just a paid professional whose job is to change your perspective on the world. Their job is to “convert” people to the mainstream idea that life is worth hanging unto….until you “expire” naturally (“natural expiration” being anything which doesn’t involve a conscious intention/decision on your part to end your own life….so if you get cancer and die, or you get hit by a bus, or you become a ‘vegetable’ due to some unfortunate accident and your relatives pull the plug on you….that’s ok … as long as you don’t make the ‘fatal’ decision yourself ).
I don’t know who is right, who is wrong: are the therapists justified to assert that life is worth hanging unto no matter what? Or are we justified to think that life has no intrinsic meaning, thus a conscious decision could be made by us at any time to extinguish the flame of life burning within us? Who knows. Giving a definitive answer involves making a value judgment. And I can’t do that. I’m no better than the guy next door. I guess all opinions in controversial matters, such as this one, ought to be carefully considered.
I think anyone, who considers death as a serious option, is faced, deep down, with the problem of uncertainty (and you don’t even have to be religious to entertain those thoughts).
Shakespeare described this ultimate ‘dilemma’ succinctly in one of his plays. In that play, a character is urged to die by his own sister. But the person replies, ‘ Ay, but to die, and go we know not where, / To lie in cold obstruction and to rot…’
In other words, the character is apprehensive of death. He even puts an argument to his sister that it’s better to live no matter what: ‘The weariest and most loathed worldly life
That age, ache, penury and imprisonment
Can lay on nature is a paradise
To what we fear of death.’