mortality makes life not worth living.

[Darkover]

What's the point of it all if at some point it will all be forgotten? Every song I've listened to, game I've played, movie I've watched, place I've been. Poof, no more "me" to have the memory of it and it's all gone. Everything is like a book that after you finish reading will be forgotten. So why bother living a full life at all?

Common rebuttals are:

You can make others happy, but then they will die as well, so everything you do for them will have been forgotten.

You can experience pleasure in the meantime which honestly I cannot accept. It literally would disgust me to think that the only purpose of life is just to pump dopamine into my stupid monkey brain which I didn't even want in the first place.

Related to this: note how 90% of what we call pleasure is just the absence of pain. Food, sex, sleep, etc is just satisfying a need. This means that not only we are given by nature a super-limited lifespan, but more than half of this we have to spend into satisfying biological needs, which just adds insult to injury to me.
The only pleasures worth pursuing are art and knowledge, but those, as I said, are going to be nullified by death.

 

[sserafim]

You can make others happy, but then they will die as well, so everything you do for them will have been forgotten.

I don't understand this. Why should I care about making others happy? Is other people's happiness more important than my own?

 

[Shar]

Even if we were immortal, life would still be insignificant due to the fact that time would lose its value, because you have infinite amounts of it

 

[offtoseethewizard]

Excruciatingly ironic truth. That mortality would make one suicidal. Teeth grindingly frustrating

 

[iloverachel]

The answer is there is no point in life

No amount of pleasures can mask the true pain and suffering inside

 

[Iamtired]

Well what if, in theory, i created something that could sell to military purposes all with the goals of ending humanity. Would that appeal to anyone here? Is that a life in vain?

 

[Gustav Hartmann]

I can follow your thoughts: If I cannot get all (eternal life) I want nothing!

Or with other words: How can I enjoy life when it will end so soon? It´s like living in death row and waiting for my impending execution.

BUT, nature made us to champions in repression and self-deception: We are immortal, every day, except for the last one.

Another aspect: Suicide is not a big thing against the background of mortality. Imagine you can only be killed by decapitation, like Conner MacLeod. If you then use a guillotine to kill yourself would give suicide a completely different dimension.