Most ppl live for their loved ones- family/spouse/children/SO. Hell, even their pet.
Most ppl live bc they have a good life. And if they don’t,
Most ppl live bc they have hope- of a future good life, of good things to come.
What do you do when you have none? No love, No hope, Nothing.
(And no, death isn’t even an option as it’s incredibly hard to pull off successfully without pain and chance of permanent damage).
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My answer is suffering. When our own minds turn into our prisons, we are tortured. The routine of work just to escape or prolong an unwanted life is no better than slave labor. Truthfully, I want to go insane. I want to lose the last shred of rationale that keeps me from saying “f this and spilling my guts even if I won’t die from it.”
I just remembered one of my weirder justifications, but it is one of the more valid; life itself is the art, like some people are really good at summarizing it down to a song, a book or a painting but the life itself is the art
and so you’re living to see organically how it turns out. Mistakes are made, you need to paint over bits but that adds to the richness of the piece, and it’s a thing about art that every artist I’ve ever talked to says; it’s never finished, the artist is just forced to walk away eventually
so the way you’re talking about life is transactional, you go through suffering to recieve something, and that assumes the bullshit of capitalism works.
but the way I see it, we’re all work in progress, we’re all trying to put the right touches in, end it on our own terms and write the best story
or maybe I’m full of shit, that’s always an option
I have been told and think that while these things are obviously a reason to live for many people – it doesn’t have to be such a ‘big thing’.
When life becomes really dark it might be enough to live for a new song that you wanna listen to just a few more times, for natural beauty like the rise of the new dawn, the birds chirping, a walk in the forest or the upcoming of another season of a good show. Maybe it’s none of these things, but I’m sure there is something that gives you a bit of a good feeling no matter how small. Embrace that and live for anything that makes you feel okay just for a bit. Taking it day by day instead of absolute might aid in that (although I know that that’s a lot easier said than done).
Hang in there, even if just for a stranger on the big wide interwebs!
Let’s say you had a dream of becoming a doctor and say you were able to come up with the money or get student loans, so finance is not a problem. If this was your cherished goal in life, I’m sure you’d go all out to achieve it.
Or how about something simpler, like you really wanted to get a car but you needed to save up for it. Same thing, you could certainly get there with some effort.
The exact same thinking applies to finding ‘closure’ to our lives. In my case I lucked out as Canada did the smart thing and offered Maid…though it has issues, it should be safe and reliable enough for most people as they perfect the process. If I have to go that route, I’ll ask for Nem as they offer it in Europe, so why not here?
So that’s one less headache I have to think about. But ofc some people live in places where that isn’t available, forcing them to get ‘creative’ and potentially take risks that could backfire badly. I totally understand the trepidation, I’ve had it as well.
But it’s ‘monkey see, monkey do.’ People who came and went before us, found a way and they succeeded. As I know it worked for them it’ll be the same for me…but obviously one has to be smart about it.
Some people just ‘roll that dice’ and leap off a cliff for example…I’m not that type…but I’ve done the research and know there are guaranteed ways that work…something we can’t discuss here.
As I’ve always said, what people do in their own life is up to them. But for me, if my life suddenly tanked…say I lose my family, face homelessness, lose my health in a major way, basically if I cross my own redlines I have for living, then I will seek a way out asap.
Even Maid can take a few months to be approved, so I’d have to make my preparations for that beforehand. If I’m declined (which I doubt), then I’d need a plan B.
Something I don’t have yet…but I’d opt for innert gaz like nitrrgen…I’m a believer in science and if done correctly it can work. There’s also the option of dro.wning….not keen on this idea because of the pannic sensation-but desperate times call for desperate measures….basically anything that can end air supply can work.
My preference would be hypoxia in an airplane…deth is very fast and painless….but ofc that’s impossible to access. I read an article (even posted it here ages ago) about hundreds of people using a simple bag…but ofc reliability is key.
The main point is one can do the research and find something they’re comfortable with-if the ideas I touched on aren’t satisfactory.
The last thing I want is to either end up homeless and pass away from the elements, slow starvation, or by the hands of evil people….additionally if my health declined then I’d want to take action before I became physically helpless, get hooked up to machines and live for another 20 years in pain/suffering/misery.
We all diie one day anyways…the question is, do we take charge of when/how that happens or leave it up to ‘chance’ and ‘hope for the best?’ Imo that’d be the worst way to go.
There is no greater decision in life than this. So we need to think carefully about it and then find a good surefire means to make it happen.