[Serious] Literal and Not Literal

[Anomalocaris]

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.

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

There are all sorts of elegant, noble or base sounding 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, assurance of extended survival as a surfacial layer to underlying urges formed by what had hitherto preserved my genetic lineage would almost assuredly prove to be meaning enough nonetheless.

You may think it is somehow a higher form of being to not be this way.  But I assure you such make belief loftiness is futile affectation because too strong a tendency to pursue it will be selected out of the gene pool.