The thought that this life could go on for many more decades is horrifying

[FuneralCry]

To me one of the most depressing things about life is that if I do not ctb I could be suffering for many more decades. I am only in my early 20's and I could potentially have decades left. I feel so tired of life, I feel like I have been alive for too long. How can people put up with life for so many decades, that is something that I will never be able to understand. The thought of old age is horrifying to me. Life is so pointless, we suffer and struggle for no reason.

There is nothing positive about living. Staying alive just means more pain and there is the potential for the pain to increase. I never want to be here and I know I have written about this too many times, but life is just so sad and depressing. Life should not be a thing in the first place. There is nothing here for me in this world. In my case, death will be the only way to get rid of suffering. Only misery lies ahead for me, I dread the future.

I believe that it is cruel to try and force people to live in a life as awful as this. It is horrible to me how people have to resort to risky methods to end their pain, our right to die should be respected and we should be able to exit peacefully when the time is right for us. Sometimes people simply do not see their lives as being worth living. Eternal sleep is all I want. I just prefer the sound of sleeping forever to living such a miserable existence.

 

[sharky]

I feel the same. Especially since medicine is so advanced that humans live longer and longer it scares me that if I don't ctb I'd have to suffer for many decades. But I never wanted to get old anyway. I think there's some good stuff in life, more so when you're young (not for everyone of course) but it only gets worse when getting older. I don't understand how old people in nursing homes can continue to live without trying to kill themselves. I don't wanna get old.

 

[yive]

life was a humiliating, insulting experience

 

[NormaJeane]

The society is trying to force me to die of old age, the worst death. It seems like my relatives, who I almost never meet, are trying to force me to live forever even though they know that the rest of my life only will be meaningless suffering. They are pretending like nothing has happened. They are refusing to talk about it. The most normal would be to help me to a suicide clinic - that is what other people use to do when someone in the family need help to die. With the life expectancy of today, I can live until I am 100 years or older, but I can not live with my health problems for decades. To be tormented of chronic pain, chronic illness or disability is worse than lethal disease because the suffering will go on for many years.

The society is trying to force people to die of old age, no matter how sick or disabled we are. It is like a competition, humans are expected to live as long as possible, no matter how life turns out for us and no matter how sick we are. If someone is 120 years old, the newspapers are writing about that person and then he or she will be famous and maybe they will end up in the Guiness Record Book.

Some sick and old patients are lying in nursing homes, slowly tormented to death, they are forced to a death without dignity. Humans should have the same right to euthanasia as our pets, how can humans be treated worse than our pets? It will probably take a very long time for the politicians to change the law so that all humans can have euthanasia. However, it will not be during my lifetime, but I have tried to do something about it, I have written about human euthanasia in a few places on the Internet. It is time to remove the taboo of death!

 

[Hollowman]

If we're lucky we'll be vaporized by nukes.

 

[Life_isover128]

Amazing how long we've prolonged the human life span. I'm 24 and it's crazy thinking I would have 10 or 15 years left of life expectancy just a few centuries ago. Modern medicine a blessing for many a curse for some unfortunate few

 

[Loaf of bread]

Suicidal or not, eventually dying of a terminal illness can be very horrifying and it's cruel how many people have to suffer through that.

Amazing how long we've prolonged the human life span. I'm 24 and it's crazy thinking I would have 10 or 15 years left of life expectancy just a few centuries ago. Modern medicine a blessing for many a curse for some unfortunate few

Not quite, average life expectancy was that low because child mortality was very high, skewing the average. If you managed to survive early childhood, you would probably live for 50-70 years.

 

[hankbank3928]

I agree with you that we need the right to die to be respected. It's so stupid how modern day people/politicians expect us to live to 80+ years old! We should have an opt-out option available!

 

[ClownMe]

Amazing how long we've prolonged the human life span. I'm 24 and it's crazy thinking I would have 10 or 15 years left of life expectancy just a few centuries ago. Modern medicine a blessing for many a curse for some unfortunate few

This, by the time im an old man, (if i dont ctb) the average life expectancy could be 100+ years, seriously, why would anyone wanna live that long?

 

[Rational man]

This, by the time im an old man, (if i dont ctb) the average life expectancy could be 100+ years, seriously, why would anyone wanna live that long?

I know people in their 80s who are afraid to die. Yet logic says they will die soon because of ageing. I will die of disease or ctb soon now. I do know of a few people who have lived peacefully until.80 or 90 but then physical decline and dementia kick in. The thought of being on a geriatric ward or care home, being gaga is terrifying.

 

[symphony]

Absolutely. Life can be a cruel joke for those of us doomed to suffer.

 

[Ravel]

I know how it is. I'm so tired of living, so many people full of potential, dreams, wanting to live end up dying for no reason. and i'm still alive. a person without dreams and without desire to live still alive. its like the universe is toying with me

 

[Rational man]

I know how it is. I'm so tired of living, so many people full of potential, dreams, wanting to live end up dying for no reason. and i'm still alive. a person without dreams and without desire to live still alive. its like the universe is toying with me

i think randomness is the centre of cosmic force. A lady in london was walking in along a street and suddenly, a third floor window fell and crushed her. She just happened to be passing by. If she had stopped to look in a shop, that window would have crashed to the ground minutes earlier. God would be busy playing nasty tricks on us if he controlled everything. There is no omnipresent, omnipotent god. God is the cosmic creator. We are god, made of the same element's that makes planet's.

 

[Of The Universe]

I've been suicidal for three years! Its hard to imagine myself ctbing. Maybe someday,perhaps in the fall.

 

[deathbydragon]

Human lives are far too long in modern times, artificially lengthened by modern medicine. Though even if life expectancy was 50, that would still be far too long for me. I'm not slaving away at work for decades.

 

[DeepSlumber]

This, by the time im an old man, (if i dont ctb) the average life expectancy could be 100+ years, seriously, why would anyone wanna live that long?

My parent thrived until she was 91, so there's something. Her friends were still writing poetry, and publishing their works, and speaking at events, in their nineties. Others ran organizations until that same age. I personally know a ton of octogenarians and septuagenarians who kick ass all over this generation or any generation of the past forty years.

I'm a loser. That's why I'm going to ctb. I don't have what they have. But age isn't always such a grand disaster as is portrayed in the collective psyche. When my parent stopped thriving at abt 91 or 92, she wanted to go and only held on for me. Then she wanted us to ctb together. She knew the world was/is doomed--climate, wars, goddamn idiotsin our country, earthquakes, N. Korean twit, on and on. We ARE doomed. If only we had the means.

 

[Hurt]

That's why I have unhealthy habits to shorten my life span.