[Serious] Literal and Not Literal

[Acrobat]

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.


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.

Your condescension from a position on top of thin ice is touching. 

there are all sorts of reasons I can come up with for not wanting to die.   But would I be ok with dying if none of these reasons are sound?   No.

So reason is just a vanity.   If I have no meaning in my life, mere survival as a surfacial layer to underlying urges formed what had hitherto preserved my genetic lineage would most assuredly prove to be meaning enough nonetheless.

If we took away all the things that you keep from wanting to die, you'd probably want to die. If we took all that keeps your feet planted on the platform, you'd probably want to jump in front of the train. 

It's what separates a man who wants to live, from a man who wants to take his life, or wishes his life were over. 

Take love for instance. If your parents have long since abandoned you, care little about you. If you lack friends, or people who love you, even if you had all the material and financial means to survive a long time, the idea of dying would probably be very welcome. Very little if anything, would keep you from wanting to continue living, other than the fear of pulling the plug yourself.