No life after death

[Violet]

Aside from the kamikaze jihadists scenario, suicide is most often attributed to depression. I had friends who committed suicide, one guy that I went to school with hung himself because he and his girlfriend split up. He was sad, I can understand that, she wouldn't talk to him, okay, he ended his life, forever, because of it. Does that make sense? That's happened to the best of us. Every guy has at one point or another gotten his heart broken by some self centered bitch. But that typically isn't the end of relationships all together. So this was a temporary problem, permanent solution, I don't understand how that isn't baffling to someone Saerules. I don't understand how life can seem so bleak, so hopeless, that you don't even want to bother trying anymore.

Some of us gamble everything upon a certain value... and see no reason to live at all should that value escape from us. If my beloved 'broke up with me': my priorities have changed to 'hooking back up with' said individual again. Should said individual die: I have little-no reason to live, and frankly have no reason not to die. To exemplarily in a way you might better understand: Say you are playing a game of Poker, and you bet every chip you have on a royal flush... and one of your opponents has 5 of a kind (assuming you are playing w/jokers being wildcards). Now that you have nothing to gain through playing (assuming that you were playing for the sole purpose of cash)... why continue to do so?

As for how bleak life can look... a number of people are starving, destitute, thirsting, and living in conditions that will surely kill them eventually... and remain alive. That is not to speak of the ones who were in such a situation and opted to not do so. Why try when you realize that it cannot be done?

Like I said, the appeal of life is that it is so fragile, so short, and in most cases, insignificant in the grand scheme of things. I can't imagine willingly giving that up. And even though i knew people personally who have, I still can't wrap my head around it.

That is not an appeal of life recognized by many (whence religions positing an afterlife?)... and it is not so fragile as one might think. It is both ridiculously easy and amazingly difficult to kill something... life is so very vulnerable... and yet: fucking resilient. Just consider life as another resource of many, and it becomes easy to see many reasons to give it up (and a number of which that will further your goals by killing oneself... hence why i said 'some things are worth dying for').