What is your list of pros and cons of staying alive?

[Thatdude]

With the way of how the events have been turning out lately in my life and how things are getting worse. I'm wondering if it isn't time. I'm coming up with more cons than pros to staying alive. And other than unknowable variables like the future might be better. I'm not finding much of a logical reason to keep going.

What is your pro vs con list on staying alive? Maybe I'm missing something that could sway things.


For me:

Pros:

• Staying alive grants me a chance of making something that massively helps humanity.
• Staying alive allows for the chance of life getting better.
• Staying alive will prevent some from feeling bad.
• Staying alive means I will be able to experience things like the new Animal Crossing and Cyberpunk games.

Cons:

• There is a 100% chance I will have to keep putting up with my sister's problems for an unknown amount of time. As far as I know it could be decades.
• There is a 100% chance that nearly on a daily bases i will have to deal with a high stress, a lot of yelling, and lonely environment for an unknown amount of time in the future.
• Everything I've tried to make money with as more than less failed. There is nothing indicating anything else I try will actually work.
• I'm extremely lonely, and it's nearly impossible to find someone in my condition.
• My family for the most part hates me. And the ones who don't, they just tolerate me.
• I have pretty much no real control over my life. Anytime I try to say no to anything or bring up a problem, people jam down my throat how I'm "enjoying" their food, electricity, net, etc. More than less, at times I am used as slave labor and my other option is to die or be homeless.
• If I stay alive, there is a chance I might at some point end up in a mental hospital.
• I'm tired all the time.

 

[Thisisprivateiguess]

Personally when looking for pros i tend to look at smaller things because they really do build up. Things like cute dogs I haven't seen and what not just to boost my mood.

 

[Thatdude]

Personally when looking for pros i tend to look at smaller things because they really do build up. Things like cute dogs I haven't seen and what not just to boost my mood.

This is fine, but I'm dealing with a drug addict drunk who abuses her kids and keeps putting me in situations. I linked it on the first post. But as an example, I found out through the words out of her own mouth that she lied in court. Saying all her kids, us, etc have their own rooms. This is clearly not true, and I might have to take everything out of a given room to put a bed in it, to make it look like that when the cps comes around. This is all while I'm hearing nothing but hate from her and so on.

Like if my problem was just loneliness and lack of ability to gain a living income source. Then ya I agree, the small things can help. But it is even down to where I flay out asked my sister and told my family I didn't want her to go to my college level graduation. And I have so little control that I couldn't even have that, but I had to hear her hate all the way back.

 

[porfin1234]

Con: * deal with repercussions of likely ruined career and have to fight to survive financially after concurring thousands in hospital debt

Pro: * enjoy the basics of being alive: dance, nature, friends, fam.

 

[TAW122]

I'm sorry to hear about how people treat you and your family situation. People should not really be guilt tripping you when you have their own interests and wants and needs to be fulfilled. It seems like there are more negatives than positives in staying alive according to your list. However, I wish you the best and peace in whether you choose to take the risk of living with uncertainty or choosing to exit/check out. Anyways, below are my pros and cons of staying alive.

Pros: Some new video games and music stuff, some fleeting pleasures from time to time, maybe experience another major milestone in life that I never thought I would.
Cons: More suffering, problems (anxiety, social life, Aspergers, existential shit, and more) continue to compound, life pretty much sucks most of the time and even small fleeting moments of joy pale in comparison to the amount of shit and suffering to go through, may end up losing my means to CTB if I wait too long.

 

[TimeToBiteTheDust]

As days pass I have less reasons to stay alive. This sucks. Nothing changes.

 

[Thatdude]

People should not really be guilt tripping you when you have their own interests and wants and needs to be fulfilled.

I think it's less of guilt trip and more or a backhand warning of do what I want/don't talk about whatever or you will be on the streets. Like today I gotten that after bringing up how by the rules they told me my sister agree to (no smoking, no drinking, no drugs, and be respectful), my sister broke every single one of them.

 

[_Minsk]

sorry for not having something useful to share but for me there are no pro's, life has so many bad aspects, which totally overshadow any good things..

 

[Shinbu]

Pros
Friends, and Family (Those who don't use you, and really do care about you.)

Hobbies

Cons
The Conscious (Being awake let's you experience pain from any reason). We are able to feel pleasure because of our conscious. Though consciousness is a double edge sword which is why it is a con to me.)

People (There is bad people that awaits for you that you have to deal with, and you could be a victim of anything they do to you.)

The Human Body (You have to eat and drink to survive. Plus on top of that you have to take care of your body by exercising, and having a good diet. Then your cells will age enough to when you are old, and you can't take care of yourself any longer, sure you can delay that, but you can't stop the inevitable. Then you eventually die. The human body is so complex. You have to avoid a lot of things for anything negative that could harm your body. )

 

[calendulo]

It is a good question,
Actually I do not get pros...........and I have thought a lot of time about pros, well since yesterday when I saw the thread.................but I can not found one single pro.

Just in case, I'll say one......still breathing. Truthfully, to stop breathing is an idea that can to scary to anybody....

Cons............The days remain the same. Today is the same than yesterday , then yesterday was the same than day before yesterday then everyday successively. The days are so boring, however there will be a pro...you know what will happens tomorrow; as a Bill Murray's movie......each day was exactly the same than the day before, but sadly you can not changing what happen to yourself.

Another cons would be you have an expiration date and like time is relative...........your life becomes so relative. Nothing is important.

Right now, I do not found more reasons.
Maybe tomorrow I do.

 

[Heart of Ice]

Pros:
You exist.

Cons:
You exist.