Discussion what's the reason you're still here?

[iwanttodie019]

AI will likely stop aging within 2-3 decades and most medical problems will be curable. If you don't enjoy being alive it's one thing, but if this is just a fear of getting old, the fear may be misplaced: if you are in the 18-24 range (and you seem young to me), if you don't commit suicide, AGI (General Artificial Intelligence) is going to happen while you're alive almost certainly, and scientists are already working on the aging problem. It's very unlikely any aging will be happening after 2060 for anyone in a wealthy country.

bro are you sure of that??
aging is multifaceted and impossibly complex.
there is no way it is getting cured anytime soon.
and besides there is a hard limit to human lifespan.It is literally programmed into our DNA

 

[yotaka]

AI will likely stop aging within 2-3 decades and most medical problems will be curable. If you don't enjoy being alive it's one thing, but if this is just a fear of getting old, the fear may be misplaced: if you are in the 18-24 range (and you seem young to me), if you don't commit suicide, AGI (General Artificial Intelligence) is going to happen while you're alive almost certainly, and scientists are already working on the aging problem. It's very unlikely any aging will be happening after 2060 for anyone in a wealthy country.

I admire your optimism. Maybe cures for aging and severe illness will come about within my lifetime, but here in The Greatest Country on Earth they will undoubtedly be reserved for the wealthy elite.

 

[knowledgeseeking]

I'm still here because every method has some suck to it.

The only ways that sound peaceful are N and opioid OD. N is almost impossible to get and opioid OD is unreliable (I've tried twice).

I guess I'll have embrace the shitty part of a method and commit.

 

[UserFromNowhere]

Merely can't bring myself to take SN. Every time I've tried to hang, it hasn't worked out, even with an attempt where I tried FSH but SI kicked in and saved me. I've had moments where I was so desperately suicidal I would've taken SN, but something intervened to take me out of that state, and I haven't been in it consistently long enough to take the SN. No matter how long the thoughts have weighed on my mind.

 

[FuneralCry]

I only still suffer as I exist in this horrific world where humans have made dying painlessly a crime with the suffering and torture of existing seen as to force and prolong no matter what, I truly is such terrible extreme cruelty how I cannot just have the option to peacefully cease existing so finally I can be at peace from the terrible mistake of existence.

In this existence so torturous and cruel only non-existence could ever be positive for me, for me ceasing to exist would be the positive solution to escape from all future unnecessary suffering in this existence that never should had been imposed at all that just harms and torments existing beings with no limit as to how much agony one can feel, I just always suffer from being trapped in this dreadful, harmful existence, to suffer in this existence truly is an abomination to me.

 

[Reptile]

Online friends and family sometimes

 

[DirtCommie]

uhh ...well... to be completely honest Ive forgotten why Im still here lol. I guess I just wamt to lose my v-card first or something like that. Then Ill eat a speeding bullet or jump in front of a train or something of the like lol. I WIsh eveyrone the best on their journeys , whatever journeys they choose

 

[NotSoEnchanted]

My SN hasn't arrived yet, and I also need to finish my notes to both family and first responders. Aside from needing to clean my home, I've otherwise got everything sorted and am feeling ready to find my peace.

 

[thevoidpointer]

AI will likely stop aging within 2-3 decades and most medical problems will be curable. If you don't enjoy being alive it's one thing, but if this is just a fear of getting old, the fear may be misplaced: if you are in the 18-24 range (and you seem young to me), if you don't commit suicide, AGI (General Artificial Intelligence) is going to happen while you're alive almost certainly, and scientists are already working on the aging problem. It's very unlikely any aging will be happening after 2060 for anyone in a wealthy country.

Most medical problems are already curable and even if AI solves aging it'll only be available to rich people

 

[Seneca65AD]

Things are currently turning around financially, client wise and personally. My family would also be devastated.

 

[OtterFromTheCosmos]

I feel like I haven't done it yet cause I'm just a coward
Some small part of me is telling me "oh but what if everything gets better, what if you regret it, what if you want to stay with your friends more?"
Sometimes I wish I could just bite the bullet, but I'm so cowardly and fearful I just can't

 

[whywere]

At my age, I love helping others, it is a driving force for me each and every day.

I have always said this and always will, with 24/7 chronic pain, when quantity of life overtakes quality of life then decisions will be made.

Walter

 

[OnMyLast Legs]

I've let my home get so out of control messy and disgusting in my depressive state and I can't leave the mess for my family to clean up

This is noble of you but man, I have let this one go. I have no motivation to clean this place up. I even have a tent with hundreds of pounds of dirt in it. I used to keep a big lizard in there.

 

[jengablocks]

the universal "mom would be sad" for me !!! she is the only friend/family i have, and she has a lot of the same neurodivergence and is incredibly anxious. sometimes i'll have moments where distress wins out over the vivid hyperempathy of imaging her so confused, scared, and distraught, but that is only episodic.

thankfully my external circumstances are better than most, since i'm not currently in financial need despite total unemployment. i sorta just dissociate perpetually. just waiting, waiting, waiting! my consciousness will unravel and i'll be a girl in one last dream

 

[soonatpeace777888]

My grandfather wouldn't be able to take me dying so I'm waiting until he passes.

 

[Just_stop_already]

I have a dog that I love so much the mere thought of him might bring me to tears and he anchors me to this shit life. I cannot bear the possibility of him being left alone here.

 

[Liebestod]

Currently a coward

 

[fadedghost]

bro are you sure of that??
aging is multifaceted and impossibly complex.
there is no way it is getting cured anytime soon.
and besides there is a hard limit to human lifespan.It is literally programmed into our DNA

i am not sure of it, but i am interested in gerontology and epigenetics. Look up Yamanaka factors. It's interesting stuff that can impact cellular senescence. They didn't really know what do with Yamanaka factors at first, because it could cause uncontrolled growth, but then they started to figure it out. They are also doing crazy stuff right now with protein folding and AI and not understanding protein folding structures really impeded scientific progress. So, am I sure in my guess? Not really, but a lot of people, like Aubrey de Grey and other researchers on AGI and the singularity, probably agree that we're much closer than people realize. Think about Ozempic: right now it's still under patent in some places, but eventually, it's going to be as cheap as a generic antibiotic, and then, no more obesity anywhere. And it happened so fast: one day, no Ozmepic, the next day, Ozempic. Stunning shifts and changes in technology often happen fast and in unexpected ways. I'm not certain, and over-confidence bias is a real phenomenon, but yeah, I'm a good guesser, and I there's a decent chance I'm right. Also, I'm not your bro homeboy.

I admire your optimism. Maybe cures for aging and severe illness will come about within my lifetime, but here in The Greatest Country on Earth they will undoubtedly be reserved for the wealthy elite.

Maybe, but maybe not. Think about generic antibiotics. Pretty much anyone can get that in an ER, anywhere.

 

[thehorizons]

Shattered dreams and hopes. I guess it's trite, but they're right when they say that if you have no hope then it's not worth continuing anymore.

On the topic, I'm just here until I could find a method that could be painful but quick and effective.

I too want to go out peacefully but the rage will allow me to overcome SI. I doubt I'll have the luxury to CTB peacefully. I'll just have to frame it as a temporary necessity and once it's over it's over.

 

[princexhhn]

Every time I find myself in front of death, I just remember my loved ones who have been trying to keep me alive all these years. I don't want to hurt them. I'd let anything happen to me if it meant they won't be hurt. It would be so easy if they didn't care about me, but I can't doubt that they do. I'd have been dead ages ago without them. I wish they'd just forget about me already, I'm not worth the effort at all. I will just keep disappointing them

 

[whywere]

Every time I find myself in front of death, I just remember my loved ones who have been trying to keep me alive all these years. I don't want to hurt them. I'd let anything happen to me if it meant they won't be hurt. It would be so easy if they didn't care about me, but I can't doubt that they do. I'd have been dead ages ago without them. I wish they'd just forget about me already, I'm not worth the effort at all. I will just keep disappointing them

NO.. NO..NO, YOU ARE VALUABLE! loving, caring and have so much to give yourself and so very many others.

I can darn near guarantee that without you here. not only your loved ones, BUT I would also have a hole in my heart from your absence. At the age of 70, reference point, I can say that YOU are a good friend, family member here and for so very many others.

When I was reading your post, NEVER EVER being snotty, just experience talking, you reminded me that YOU bring so much to the table of life that a HUGE vacuum would be without you here.

You ARE a loving, caring, thoughtful, and vibrant soul and I would be lost without you here.

Walter

 

[marcel-the-mime]

Would do it if I could press a button and I wouldn't feel anything, no effort!. No pain, nothing! This is the only thing that stops me. I would actually pay a fortune for this...

 

[arrythmia]

Moral obligation to not put massive harm to my family, friends, and community.

 

[ScarletTanager]

I'm afraid of dieing and what happens after…
I'm not finished with doing some things.
Being here was a process, and taking my own life so suddenly seems like a dismantling of what took some time to get to this state of being, so philosophically it feels reckless to me, a bit.
I can't imagine not having a body.p
I don't want to be buried under the ground. I want to be cremated instead and my will does not state this, yet.
This is all I know.
I'm not sure, but I feel like something is stopping me, holding me back like an invisible restraint.

 

[camusfan_ig]

My best friend. I'm hoping to live with her one day... and I don't want to leave her behind