If all of your problems in life were completely solved, would you still want to CTB?

[suisuiforum]

No matter how impossible it is, let's say every single problem you have is solved, whether it be physical and mental illnesses, poverty, lack of social connections, societal corruption, etc. Would you still want to CTB?

I'm asking this because at the risk of sounding ungrateful, I don't think I've had an objectively terrible life by any means, and I don't think I have real problems like a lot of people here. However, I still think that life isn't inherently worth it for me, and continuing to live is basically just slogging through the day for zero benefits. Even though I'm really not experiencing genuine hardship, I have no idea what I want out of life for it to be meaningful to me, so it seems like there's no other path for me besides eventual CTB.

 

[jodes2]

I'd need a complete personality change on top of getting rid of mental health problems, being poor and not having friends. Then maybe I could enjoy life and it would be worthwhile. I just always give up with everything and get nowhere. I need to be somebody else. I need to be somebody to can enjoy the simple things in life

 

[FrozenMango]

No. I would want to live forever

 

[zaros]

its a tricky thing to think about bc like yeah, having all of my issues fixed and problems solved would objectively make me happier. but i think i still would? if i put everything aside and just think about where i want my life to go, i just draw blanks like the worlds worse game of russian roulette. i'd probably last longer than i would now, but ultimately i don't see any other outcome

 

[epic]

If my health problem is solved, I would take control of my life that very day.

 

[Sapphire]

If I could solve all of my problems, I wouldn't want to ctb. Why would I throw my life away for no reason?

 

[WorthlessTrash]

My only problem (and the reason for me planning to CTB) is that I wasn't born female, so if time was able to be reset and I was born female, no, I would not want to CTB (at least for that reason).

 

[heavyeyes]

If all my problems were solved I wouldn't want to ctb. There would be no reason to.

 

[pthnrdnojvsc]

There is no objective purpose to life . so Yes that's one reason out of thousands for me to ctb. We're all going to die anyway so why prolong my life to get that stroke , that cancer diagnosis to get old? Those are some other reasons for me to ctb.

imo what you are asking is impossible to do eliminate all problems .There's always extreme pain around the corner , pain , suffering, work , chores , feeding , cleaning, hunger , aging , injuries, diseases ,old age , stroke ,cancer ,alshiemers , fixing things, grief, sadness,depression , boredum, tiredness, heartbreak, unfullfilled desires, thousands more problems in life and there is no way to get rid of all of them , all humans get old and decay .... etc ad infinitum. Even all the billiionaires will get old get painful diseases like cancer stroke and then die anyway.

Yeah if i ctb then that would solve all my problems forever but living won't .

What are you asking is if you were God. I don't believe there is a God but that's what your question means to me . What if you were God . what would you do for the next trillion trillion years? It would get pretty boring wouldn't it? living forever seems to me to be the worst torture

 

[outrider567]

You can't bring the dead back to life

 

[Unending]

I would probably still want to but would have a lot less good reason to. Still though, I feel like I've begun to see life more and more as objectively bad as I think about it over the last few years. Not objectively bad in the sense that no one is enjoying it but more in the sense that someone will always be facing extreme suffering.

If I had all my stuff in order and all of my life-ruining problems were erased, maybe I'd find an actual productive reason to stay though. So yeah, overall I think I'd still want to ctb but could potentially turn it around with time as opposed to where I'm at right now, not being able to change anything despite immense effort.

 

[Forever Sleep]

I think if my problems were mostly solved, I may still WANT to CTB now and again- I've had ideation for 33 years. I probably wouldn't go though with it though. I think my suicide will upset a few people that I care about (more than a natural death.) I'd really rather not do that.

To get rid of my want to CTB all together- I'd need to have vast chunks of my memory erased, change my character to be more optimistic, get rid of physical pain in the design of life and completely change how the world works to be more fair. Not so sure I'd be me anymore if there were all those changes. Not so sure the world would work anymore with those changes.

 

[ForeverLonely82]

if I can love and be loved. Friends that actually gave a shit, a family that would too. Then I wouldn't really need to the need to CTB. Because honestly that's all I want, but it'll never happen just a deluded fantasy. Like last night I dreamed I was riding in this car with a woman not too much older than me with wave brown/red hair. would pull over a bunch of places to make out and talk about how it was great to find each other and after that in my dream I went to a friends house and he couldn't get a atari 800 xl working and I helped him with it, then i decided it was time to go and there was a blizzard happening so I said "Ok, looks like I am staying the night" we ordered pizza and played some atari...woke up shortly after, miserable like I am now.

 

[Darkover]

i need my teeth(decayed) fixing my left shoulder(distlocates) my belly(damaged stomca linging) and my ears(tinnitus) and brain(injury) if all that could be fixed i could have a decent life with a bit of money to buy a home as well

 

[AerialBoundaries]

Probably, because too much time has passed and I've missed out on any opportunity to live a "normal" life.

 

[emptybox]

I need to be another person, both physically and mentally, to want to choose life. Even if everything around me, the whole world was "perfect", I would need to get rid of myself. For me it's also too late even if things could magically get fixed in a second.
And at this point I'm so tired and terrified of life it's hard to even imagine wanting to live, no matter what. But still...maybe?

 

[FuneralCry]

In my case, I could never wish to delay my inevitable fate no matter what happens. The thing that I see is being the true problem is life itself so of course only death could ever be the solution. I simply despise existing, it's both a burden and a curse having the ability to be conscious and aware of this world, and anyway existence is something so useless that leads to nothing and nowhere apart from our inevitable deterioration and death and to me staying here could never be worth it in any way. Even one second spent here is one second too long.

I don't wish to age and get old, and existing is something that could never appeal to me. The whole concept of life is something that is so unsatisfactory and terrible, like how everything is determined by chance and how we are slaves to our needs and desires, it's simply impossible to eliminate suffering apart from being dead. But I view non existence as being something that is so ideal to me, and it's all that I wish for, to be completely unaware of everything forever. I don't wish to associate with existing in any way and I believe that it's always preferable to not exist no matter the circumstances.

 

[GasMonkey]

Nope.
It would be amazing.

 

[Anonymus]

Obviously not, I like to learn new things and each stage of life is like a game of wits that must be faced in a different way. Childhood, adolescence and adulthood are lived in radically opposite ways and you always have to break your shell to find out which is the right way to approach things.
The stage where you have to prove everything you know is old age, it's like the final exam... but if you're already doing badly at the beginning you won't pass. If I didn't have any problems I'd be happy to get to old age to solve the challenges of that age, but the way I'm going now I feel the same as when I was in school as a kid, I'm not up to the required level and just suffer and suffer to try to get there while wishing for this nightmare to end once and for all.

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Evidentment que no, a mi m'agrada aprendre coses noves i cada etapa de la vida es com un joc d'enginy que s'ha d'enfrontar d'una manera diferent. La infància, l'adolescència i la etapa adulta es viuen de manera radicalment oposada entre elles i sempre has d'estar trencan-te la closca per a esbrinar quina és la manera correcta d'entomar les coses.
La etapa on has de demostrar tot el que saps és la vellesa, és com l'exàmen final.. però si ja vas malament d'inici no aprovaràs pas. Si no tingués cap problema estaría encantat d'arribar a vell per resoldre els reptes d'aquella edat, però tal com vaig ara em sento igual que quan anava a l'escola de petit, no arribo al nivell necessari i només faig que patir i patir per intentar arribar mentre's desitjo que s'acabi d'una vegada el malsón.

 

[BBBB]

No!

 

[Source Energy]

In my case, I could never wish to delay my inevitable fate no matter what happens. The thing that I see is being the true problem is life itself so of course only death could ever be the solution. I simply despise existing, it's both a burden and a curse having the ability to be conscious and aware of this world, and anyway existence is something so useless that leads to nothing and nowhere apart from our inevitable deterioration and death and to me staying here could never be worth it in any way. Even one second spent here is one second too long.

I don't wish to age and get old, and existing is something that could never appeal to me. The whole concept of life is something that is so unsatisfactory and terrible, like how everything is determined by chance and how we are slaves to our needs and desires, it's simply impossible to eliminate suffering apart from being dead. But I view non existence as being something that is so ideal to me, and it's all that I wish for, to be completely unaware of everything forever. I don't wish to associate with existing in any way and I believe that it's always preferable to not exist no matter the circumstances.

Have you read the book "Better Never To Have Been" by Benatar? I share the same views...non-existence is better. But if my problems were solved, I would stay a little longer. Not until old age though, I dread that...

 

[my_sundown]

To me everything in life will always be an uphill battle. Call me a pessimist.. but we have trained ourselves to look at life as a good thing. If you really think about it, you have to work for everything, literally everything in this world. The one moment of satisfaction can only be attributable to the relativity of dissatisfactions. It is set up so you can only have satisfaction… because you know what the "sucky part" is.

 

[Sparr0w]

considering the fact that my life's pretty good right now, i think id still want to. a lot of my suicidal thoughts come from my (probable) autism, which isnt something to be fixed, and my dislike of how much effort it takes to be alive.

i dont know if i would, since i wouldnt have depression, but i think id still think about it at the very least.

 

[sasuim]

i think that will always be a hypothetical

 

[Rainy_days]

No, there are things I wish I could do which my problems prevent me from doing. I really can't understand at all the people who hate life a priori.

 

[MidnightCat]

It's a tough question.

If by problems we mean just "problems" I might just keep wanting to ctb.

I could have all the money and love of the world, be depression free and still want to ctb.

However

If my personality also shifted and I was able to not hate myself... I might be able to live.

 

[Luminescence]

I'd like to be a whole version of me. I long for it more than death.

I've known difficulty from a very early age. It was my normal existence. I was slightly different in that I didn't self pity nor self blame during early childhood abuse. I also didn't recoil in fear. I defended myself without shame or guilt. I believed in good, in justice. I was a naïve child.

Throughout my life I remained loving, giving, hyper empathetic, and altruistic. I never sought external validation. I didn't dislike myself one bit. I was a happy little weirdo. Non-conforming. Free.

I longed for deep, meaningful connections, truth, and adventure. I sought magic and beauty, in the light and the dark. I embraced all.

I endured years of bullying, sexual assault, abusive relationships, illness, and poverty, all intertwined. I didn't know loneliness until people taught me it through silent treatment and forced isolation. I've had things forced upon me, stolen from me. People became my fear.

I knew joy, had wonderful experiences, beautiful friendships, laughed, smiled, and hoped. I was lucky in that I always accepted myself and others. I was also content alone, another gift.

You ask if I'd still want to transcend if I was healed, helped, whole…I cannot truly answer as I can only dream of knowing that version of myself but my heart believes I'd choose life first.

 

[Klophy]

Although all of my problems being solved would require some pretty impossible things such as a different childhood, looks, cures for my physical/mental ailments, etc etc... Basically i'd need to become someone else.

If that were possible, i'd stay. Thoughts of CTB may come but they'll be fleeting. Maybe old age would tip the scales later in life? but assuming
that I was living my best life, I'd try to stay for as long as I can.

 

[LaVieEnRose]

No

 

[AnxietyHangover]

I think the most obvious response to this question for most people here is no, myself included. I am not wishing for things out of the ordinary, but for some reason they are so far out of reach. And I have to deal with the thing I despise most on a daily basis. Solitude.