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Alucard

Alucard

Wizard
Feb 8, 2019
606
"I thought of this crowd of suicides: more than eight thousand five hundred in one year. And it seemed to me that they had combined to send to the world a prayer, to utter a cry of appeal, to demand something that should come into effect later when we understood things better. It seemed to me that all these victims, their throats cut, poisoned, hung, asphyxiated, or drowned, all came together, a frightful horde, like citizens to the polls, to say to society :

"Grant us, at least, a gentle death! Help us to die, you who will not help us to live! See, we are numerous, we have the right to speak in these days of freedom, of philosophic independence and of popular suffrage. Give to those who renounce life the charity of a death that will not be repugnant nor terrible.""

Maupassant, The magic couch
 
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Pariah
Jan 7, 2020
489
Ideology is not my primary reason, but without getting on the soap box too much, my issues are pretty intertwined.

If the world's power structure weren't a disaster then it's reasonable to say that I'd not have grown up hungry and without adequate mental and physical health care, or guardians who wanted the best but were under unimaginable pressure that turned them into monsters.

These factors led to my enlistment, making bad things worse, and yet again: in a just society even these hurdles would be surmountable through the kind of health care available only to the wealthy currently.

So, while many humans have it much worse than I do, and while both their situation and mine are painful and lonely disasters because of "philosophy?"

My specific reason to catch the bus is being in needless pain and totally alone (from things other philosophies could mitigate if not eliminate.)
 
WhyIsLife56

WhyIsLife56

Antinatalism + Efilism ❤️
Nov 4, 2019
1,075
Antinatalism + Efilism are two big enough philosophical and logical reasons to ctb. The most logical ones ❤️
 
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