Why the instinct to survive?

[LostDays]

So... if you're here for actual discussion, why didn't you address the meat of my reply to you?

As someone who contemplates suicide every day, and several times a day sometimes, I can tell you "why" I don't end my life: my sister would be devastated, and so would my friends the rest of my family. It's as simple as that, but that's just me. The best answer to the question, "what is stopping me from ending my life?" is "what has stopped you from ending it until now?"

People have given you actual, real reasons, but you've chosen to cherry-pick statements which have nothing to do with the topic at hand. Care to take a deep breath and start over?

I think I'm being misinterpreted here, not trying to come across as being hostile at all.. I'm genuinely glad. Guess I'll have to choose my words more carefully next time... beauty of interpreting text rather than the actual way it was intended.

Anyways,

I work with patients who have also thought the same way but now feel like it is selfish to only live for other people. My cousin actually asked me this last week and that is why this topic means so much to me as it does... and why I feel a sense of urgency. She can't continue to stay here on earth just to avoid upsetting all of us that love her.. or so she says.. and I am at a complete loss of what to say to her other than the usual mental health related stuff.