death is a virtue

MH, if you have a medical condition then it’s understandable.

If you are able-bodied, then it’s psychological and that can be a powerful drive also, but in most cases it can be overcome.

Controlling one’s thoughts takes self discipline. I’ve been able to sleep well most of the time but sometimes I think of past mistakes or when people have done me wrong and how I hate them for it-which has kept me awake and angry.

So I do things to ‘clear my head’ like watch movies and focus on other things, then I’m able to sleep properly again. Just using that as an example to show what can be done if you feel you’re limiting yourself. Certainly we don’t have total control over our thoughts and emotions but we need to be more proactive about it.

We all live and eventually die. I’d prefer to do that at a time of my own choosing. If my life becomes an intolerable hell-hole for any reason then I will find a way to end it and there are means that work well.

This ofc is everyone’s own personal decision. What I always advise to others is to keep yourself as healthy as you can mentally and physically regardless of what you decide to do.

Because if you end up incapacitated, people will extend your misery for years by hooking you up to machines or putting you in psych-wards and then you have lost control over the option to end your life at a time of your choosing.

Some lives are just not worth living. If one is homeless, facing terminal illness, or lost all their friends/family/spouse, their job, etc., then imo there is just no logical reason to keep living.

For those who are healthy and enjoy life but experienced a bad luck streak, then it might be worth struggling for a few more years because things can improve with hard work. For me I’m ok so that’s why I keep going on, for now.

I’ve seen a few pics of people who’ve ended their lives, it’s never pretty and it’s sad…at the same time I know whoever that person was, they were certainly glad that their misery/suffering finally came to an end. Thankfully we are finite beings.

I know it’ll be similar in my case the day I do the same…but ofc I’d do it only when I felt life was no longer worth living and I’m targeting age 60 or so. If I’m not living the life I want by then, then I’ll pull the plug since all I’d have to look forward to is senility, old age, health issues, slow deterioration, loneliness, etc.

Last point, the worst thing one could do is to persist in a state where they are suffering on a daily basis with no end in sight, that’s no life, that’s just self-torture. For me if I’m not moving forward, improving my life then it’s like watching a terrible movie or show, just end it/turn it off. Same goes for a bad existence.