It's a bit jarring that every single person on this website has a life.

[theboy]

it is true
personally, I find it shocking that this site is literally a web cemetery. We read messages from dead people

 

[makethepainstop]

Nah. I understand what you're saying. That's why I go on facesofsuicide.com sometimes and look at the faces and wonder "What kind of person they were like. What did they like to do. What led them to this point. Etc"

I do the same thing.

 

[ARW3N]

No offence taken. The last thing I want, of course, is to have a life on this planet and all the problems that come with it. It defeats the whole purpose of why I am on this forum in the first place. However, I fully understand the point you're making and don't take it the wrong way as a pro-life post.

 

[Pluto]

This is a thoughtful point, and I agree. It could also be a slippery slope.

It is possible that a majority of users barely if ever post. I found the website in February of 2020 and only signed up many months later because I happened to still be alive.

Then there's the circa-1-million people who complete a suicide each year, each with their stories. And far more who fail attempts. Far more again who contemplate, etc.

Then there's the fact that in another century, barely anyone alive today will still be here.

Then there are the 117 billion humans who have lived and died previously.

Then there's the millions of non-human species, who are our distant cousins. Multiply that by a history of life going back 4 billion years. And life on other planets.

We can zoom in on anything or anyone and find a gem of infinite complexity, or we can zoom out and be overwhelmed by the vast emptiness.

 

[lyles]

It's a bit odd, I can understand. Sometimes it is hard for me to recognize my own life, the fact that my existence has such influence and impact on those around me and that my loss would be felt. It is what keeps me back but still, it is a large thing to grasp. Both the enormity and precariousness of our little lives.

 

[pepperminttea]

Don't worry. I really dont have a life. Haven't left my house in almost a year, havent stepped outside in about 3 months, just wake up, watch netflix and play games to try pass the time, eat, sleep, sometimes shower. i really dont have a life

 

[Freebird4567]

I feel the same.
I definitely don't have a life, I have bpd, depression and recently agrophobia has been mentioned but I think I've got anxiety rather than agrophobia.
I always push everyone away and I have no friends, I've been estranged from family since I was 16 (apart from my older sister who I havent spoken to in a year) I'm on my 8th job since July last year, which I started less than 3 weeks ago and I'm already planning on quitting.
The only reason Im working right now is to pay off debt (I went through a time where I was spending 500-600 every month on clothes that I still haven't worn) and to book a hotel for 1 or 2 weeks to take SN

 

[crowbait]

I completely understand what you're saying. I can't stand to look at goodbye threads. I always get so sad that a seemingly nice person is no longer. That a once whole person is now gone. I get that they have reasons. I mean I'm not a pro-lifer, and I'm leaving too unless life gets amazing.There's something just inherently a bit jarring about it.