Even if I had a beautiful perfect relationship I still would want to CTB. Even if I had a 10 million dollars I would still want to CTB. Life is a prison sentence. Always.
You should not be on here. If you don't 100% want to CTB because you lost everything in your heart then you clearly still want to be alive and you will regret CTB.
I recommend Reddit groups for you, there's a lot of men like you who deal with this.
Ok to be clear. I don't "want" to CTB at all. However I fear living and being stuck in a life I hate is so much worse.
And men that deal with this.... I appreciate the suggestion but I don't see how an eco chamber highlighting just how systematic my issue is helps and how hopeless it is.
I feel the reasons for me being here aren't entirely clear so if you want I've attached my suicide note below explaining why it's such a big issue to me specifically.
I finally took control of my life and succeeded and achieved the ultimate promotion that matters the most.
Even if I wasn't too broken my life simply is. It's impossible to heal in a vacuum. Everyday the failure of meaningful success especially in romance gets heavier and heavier as I realise more and more how little space this world has for me. I am simply part of the too many. The noise in a crowd trying to get noticed by life.
I am a negative variable. Subtracting myself can only increase the total.
I do not see a future worth enduring for. Men only receive flowers on their graves. The world rejected me. Catastrophically. It didn't just deny me success; it denied me the basic texture of connection.
My return on investment for what I put into life and what I get back gets worse and worse. Thought I had a breakthrough as I met very keen professors only to humilate myself. Like in grave of the fireflies... That strife and striving never lead to prosperity and death before strife would have been a humane mercy.
Is it really worth striving so hard just for a journey for the same end.
The world had already shown me everything it has to offer, and none of it is worth staying for.
As the silence of my unlived life becomes a scream.
I guess the damage from the cult both to me but especially to my life is irreparable as extraordinary failures just collect endlessly. Diagnosed by a psychiatrist as delusional as well.
I'm 33 and I don't have a single meaningful success in my life. Not 1. In fact my life feels so cursed I question the hand of a higher power running some kind of cruel experiment rather than just random misfortune. I was born very premature and if only I had died in birth, but a premature birth I suspect is part of the cause of my defects. Excluding the adversity everyone else goes through a cult where I was told god would judge me for my thoughts so even my own thoughts weren't my own as I lived in fear for my golden developmental years and hit by lightning twice and my father who was suicidal and mentally unstable Infront of me. Bitten or perhaps the skin on my face eaten by a rat on my own bed while asleep requiring traumatic rabies treatment. Bitten by a dog on my birthday, wronged by another dog and denied justice when it took my irreplaceable cat Zinzi from me and I could take no legal action to seek justice, because I as a human being had less rights than that dog in seeking justice... A perfect example of my lifes worth... It's truly extraordinary. It's difficult to believe I wasn't setup to fail from the very beginning. And to top it off hit by a tornado while in a car, in South Africa... Where tornadoes are extremely rare. And where to survive all that only to realise I'm a dinosaur in a world that statistically doesn't want or need me as I'm purely just a surplus taking up resources. Intervention is only prolonging suffering. And so after learning to let go of a world that had no use for me I attain a greater permanence.
Years out of the cult and I haven't been able to rebuild my life. And each day that gets heavier and heavier. If anyone wonders why I'm in a race against time this is it. Because every week that goes past my fate of romantic isolation and progress stagnation becomes more and more absolute. Whatever I cannot achieve now I definitely will never be able to achieve later. You cannot heal in a life you loath. I'm just noise in the background of other people's lives.
Everyone loves me, but nobody likes me and that is the loneliest feeling in the world.
To my defence I tried everything. More than a year of psychologists and psychiatrists, institutionalization in hospital and successfully stabilized.
But none of that could fix a life which I had hoped did not follow me from South Africa but it did even though I tried so hard to flee from it. The fundamentals of life did not change in my favour. I am still part of the too many on this planet. Supply and demand are very clear here. I doubt I belong anywhere. Telling someone to love themselves when they've been systematically unloved is a cruel joke.
I went over some literature of WW1 survivers and after the war for many of them it just sounds like they had to survive a post war conflict having lost too much to even dream of living where an early grave is the greatest release they can have to free themselves from their trauma. A soldier who cannot find a new mission will eventually turn his weapon on the only objective left: himself. Or he will simply cease to be.
And so if given the choice to choose when to self euthanase... That is the most important question, and the answer is not a date on a calendar or a specific event. It is not when things get a little better, or a little worse. It is a feeling of finality. A deep, resonant certainty that has settled into my bones. It is the moment I realize that the hope for a different life, a life without this constant, grinding weight, is no longer a possibility. It is when the very thought of enduring another week, another month, another year of this despair feels more unbearable than the finality of the alternative. It is when the peace i have been imagining is no longer a distant dream, but the only tangible reality left within my grasp.
This is not an end but a completion... This is not an end but a return to a state of being before I was alive... before I was born...A peace I have long forgotten... perhaps a peace I've been searching for my whole life without even knowing it...The quite of a final gentle release... This is an act of reclamation...of taking my peace back from a world that has consistently refused to give it...