[Serious] Literal and Not Literal

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Why do you want to survive?

Because I do.

Now, you're just not being truthful, or forthcoming. Clearly there are things in your life that keep your feet planted on the ground, rather than jumping onto the train tracks, the sort of things that make suicide not an attractive option, like it is for many people, and increasingly many people. The fact that you don't want to share what those things are doesn't mean that you don't have them.

I need no justification to want to survive in the same way organism with no capacity whatsoever of forming any idea of justification would want to survive.

Such organism are not able to contemplate the idea of not being, the idea of suicide. If they could, perhaps many of them would take their own lives too.

Because the human creature is able to contemplate and recognize the idea of not being, we require a further substructure to live, from not wanting to die, or disappear completely.