What do you think is the most horrible thing about being alive?

[FuneralCry]

For me it would be impossible to decide what is the most horrible. Maybe it would be the fact that so much pain exists and that anyone can end up in the worst pain possible. Our bodies can torture us to such great extent with health problems. For me it is also the fact that it is so hard to leave this world and that many methods come with the risk of failure.

Life in general is what I see as being the problem. Life can be so pointless and tedious but can also be terrifying. It seems like there is nothing really positive about being here. Even if someone has the life they want all that can be taken away from them. The future is unpredictable and uncertain, and things can easily get so much worse. Life is cruel like that. I could never see life as being worth living. Society needs to allow people a guaranteed, peaceful and reliable way to exit. It seems impossible to escape from suffering in this life. To me, wanting suicide can be perfectly rational in such a horrible world, it is all that could ever feel right for me.

 

[Un-]

The fact that we have to try to get anything that we want. I find it ridiculous. For me to not have to not live on the streets, I have to try and fucking.. Study or get a job or something. For me to not have a body in worse condition, I have to try and eat healthy, and work out or whatever the fuck it is. Like you even mentioned, for me to have access to a peaceful method of suicide, I have to do the whole D-IC bullshit, somehow get it past customs, get anti-what-what pills.. Assuming I even can afford it. I'm probably just lazy, but I don't get it. I suffer on a daily basis, but to at least suffer comfortably, or not suffer at all, I have to try. Jesus H. Christ. Life is a disaster, and will sodomize us. It's a matter of when, not if.

 

[Suicidebydeath]

No autonomy over our own bodies. Even in law.
I shouldn't have to be alive because other people are selfish.

I wish you had an escape from suffering FC.

 

[Mashedout]

Being forced to kill in order to keep existing. The fact we just showed up here one day without a choice and have to cause suffering to others is beyond absurd. It devalues this whole experience. On the spectrum of all possiblites, anyone with an imagination can dream up something much much better.

 

[Judy Garland]

Life is awful here. Everything is pain, even that little sigh that happens to people as they get out of bed. Some don't even realize they are in pain, they think it's normal. The world thrives on pain in so many ways. I'm tired of it all. I want it all to end.

 

[LifeHasNoOptIn]

You bring up many good examples, but I would honestly say it's that we aren't guaranteed a peaceful exit option when any of those things become too much. The prospect of developing unbearable pain or disease wouldn't be nearly as terrifying to me if I knew there was always a safe peaceful option available like N when it becomes too much. Always having that ace in the hole would make it easier to attempt to make the most of your life if you had the ability to "call it off" when you decide you've had enough and things will never work out.

 

[Spiritual survivor]

Not having your own private home no matter how small, where u cannot be kicked out of and property tax. This is the single worst thing government regulations do to make pple be forced in to bad living situations. Without some property that u own out right at a reasonable cost is just so important and they want to take that away. Nobody should have to live in fear bc they could lose their place to live. But this is a torture other humans inflict on fellow humans to keep the poor enslaved in their terrible jobs just to keep housed.

 

[Lost Magic]

The worst thing about being alive is being alive . Just living each day while having to maintain these wretched bodies while navigating through the perils of everyday life is just beyond cruel. Then you have to deal with shitty people on top of that. The main things that are stabilising me at the moment are this site, the internet, Star Wars games and shows (lol) and my kratom tea with sleeping pill at night. Night is my favourite time because I know I can sleep for at least 10 hours. I have been planning my demise for a long time now, I just hope I have the balls to go through with it when the time comes. I can't wait for it all to be over with.

 

[Twiceler]

I think the most horrible thing in life is knowing that you can die, but that's the point after all. Nevertheless I can make it happen by my own rules so I decided to ctb.

 

[SiroccoSousse]

You bring up many good examples, but I would honestly say it's that we aren't guaranteed a peaceful exit option when any of those things become too much. The prospect of developing unbearable pain or disease wouldn't be nearly as terrifying to me if I knew there was always a safe peaceful option available like N when it becomes too much. Always having that ace in the hole would make it easier to attempt to make the most of your life if you had the ability to "call it off" when you decide you've had enough and things will never work out.

This is honestly it for me. It's frustrating to me that I somehow do not have a right to control my own death, even in cases where the act of living is exceptionally miserable. I understand the intentions of denying an easy "ace in the hole" to people who are not in a healthy state of mind and are attempting to make a rash decision, but it's close-minded to assume every person seeking suicide falls under that category. But I'm just preaching to the choir here

 

[Darkover]

being made to suffer endlessly and pointlessly all because the people in charge decide it is in everyone best intrest not to be allowed to end said life

 

[redeyepiranha]

We almost have no control over life, we live in the deterministic universe that tends towards entropy. We can't choose whether we want to be born, in which bodies, countries etc. I hate living this pointless life.

 

[Rd2nowhere]

Trump supporters

 

[Darkover]

Trump supporters

 

[lofticries]

The judgement over the simplest things even when it doesn't involve anyone else.

 

[iforgotmyacc]

The randomness...

 

[Arvinneedstodie]

Unfairness. I hate unfairness in all its forms. Life is already unfair from the moment we're born, but then we humans go to extremes to further that unfairness in everything. We care so much and waste so much time and resources on competing with one another.

 

[toasterbath]

i just don't want to be part of this rat race anymore. for many of us we are just dealt the wrong cards in life and it's unfair that we have to suffer. even someone who lived their life doing everything perfect say they were working as a nurse can end up homeless in america from one bad injury and no more savings. what is the point in existing and continuing on when you are already plagued with so much pain? i don't want to be here to see how much more shittier my life is going to get because i fucked everything up. i blame both myself and bad circumstances everyday and i just don't have the energy anymore to keep trying or "hoping". every single thing drains me and my mind is just spinning like i feel myself slowly losing my mind. bad things happen to good people and i don't understand the point of life anymore.

 

[pthnrdnojvsc]

i hate thousands of things about being alive but the worst is old age, getting old and all the nightmare diseases that come with old age. Getting old watching yourself decay , all your powers going away. After age 60 or for some younger the threat of heart attack , stroke ,dementia, cancer , alshiemers, arthritis and many other horribly painful diseases increase exponentially.

i'm not talking about Death. Just being old is hell , the constant pain and torture for most not all but eventually all who at 90 feels good? Death/ non-existence to me is the best thing because it solves all my problems , stops all pain forever, never a chance for suffering or disease.

Who By Very Slow Decay

[Trigger warning: Death, pain, suffering, sadness] I. Some people, having completed the traditional forms of empty speculation – “What do you want to be when you grow up?”, &#8220…

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[befree]

Experience the New World Order.

 

[brood]

i hate thousands of things about being alive but the worst is old age, getting old and all the nightmare diseases that come with old age. Getting old watching yourself decay , all your powers going away. After age 60 or for some younger the threat of heart attack , stroke ,dementia, cancer , alshiemers, arthritis and many other horribly painful diseases increase exponentially.

i'm not talking about Death. Just being old is hell , the constant pain and torture for most not all but eventually all who at 90 feels good? Death/ non-existence to me is the best thing because it solves all my problems , stops all pain forever, never a chance for suffering or disease.

Who By Very Slow Decay

[Trigger warning: Death, pain, suffering, sadness] I. Some people, having completed the traditional forms of empty speculation – “What do you want to be when you grow up?”, &#8220…

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You've quite nicely summed up what would have been my answer.

 

[BEATNGU]

The worst in life this one believes is what they wish not to obtain. Fleeting as it may be. To know why but to ask why not and receive no response, no definition and no comfort. Is it really a problem if there is no solution? What they lack is what gnaws at them. Obstacles are the only thing that keeps this eternal journey fresh and primed but the end is waiting for us all. Watching us all. Wanting us all. It sickens this one to their core. They hate what waits.
Oh and the boy said the worst part is the sun in his opinion.

 

[AnneRee]

I think being in horrendous pain physically
and mentally/ emotionally with no viable way to end it , if there was a way I could do it I still couldn't bear to hurt my family - I've already been a worry to them for a long time , they would be devasted ! So I'm trapped - to add to it my elderly mum is seriously ill in hospital and I know she's not going to come through this - she's tired and given up - I don't know how to carry on without her - watching her suffer is heartbreaking !

 

[GreenTree]

Trying your hardest to live a kind life and still getting shafted.

 

[jamie_]

being wired to be a social creature but other people having the ability to unleash unbelievable pain upon you

 

[Neowise]

Other people, or rather their behaviour. They hurt you, laugh at you, neglect you, gaslight, judge, command, abuse... People are shit. Sometimes I picture myself living on a lonely island. Gathering food would be harsh but not having to deal with other people's bullshit would be worth it.

 

[meetapple]

Dealing with ignorant people.

 

[splashofvanilla]

I think that its hope the world only hurts us when we let it when i have accepted that life is shit and that people are cruel just to be cruel nothing was able to hurt me on a emotional level but when i hoped for change or for something everything struck at once.

 

[apple2myeye!]

this is kinda hard to answer, but i think the thing that i hate about life most of all is how needlessly complicated everything is. i just want to be a simple creature doing simple things. why can't life just be like that..? i guess we've got to serve the racist dick measuring pedo elites somehow. things have never changed.

 

[Leiden]

Pain of any kind.