Discussion what's the reason you're still here?

[DeadManLiving]

Looong story (saving it for the end). But why still here? To Watch. Watching the bloodbath of manipulative, destructive backstabbing nature and condition of human behavior. Once from within the engine of market microstructures, then from outside; sometimes through a microscope or pirescope as a scientist would study a culture of microbes attacking and devouring each other.

Until such time it ceases to interest and to be.

 

[Rogue_Gendarme]

Biding my time and trying to ease myself into peace and liberation through death, before my actual, final moments. I want to eat cheesecake again before I die, I want to try deep dish pizzas. I want to be able to drink Soju again, and I want to sell my guitar so I can get money and do as I please with it. I want to sleep well a few more nights before my final sleep. I want to play music with my friends. I want to sing songs before I sing my death rattle. I want to see my country's beauty before I turn my back and leave her behind, eventually. I want to talk with friends and see their smiles again, before my smile disappears forever. I want to do all of that and more, but I've only got a month left.

I don't want to worry about that, I don't want to worry at all. I'm creating my peace before my liberation. All that matters now is the present, counting days before the final hour.

 

[Kitty_Can't_2026]

I have a dog that I love so much the mere thought of him might bring me to tears and he anchors me to this shit life. I cannot bear the possibility of him being left alone here.

Yep, I'm totally the same. My cat is everything and I don't have anyone who would take care of her if I wasn't here.
I'm responsible for her. So I'll keep at this life until she's no longer.
That's my plan anyway.

 

[xXiloveyouXx]

AI will likely stop aging within 2-3 decades and most medical problems will be curable. If you don't enjoy being alive it's one thing, but if this is just a fear of getting old, the fear may be misplaced: if you are in the 18-24 range (and you seem young to me), if you don't commit suicide, AGI (General Artificial Intelligence) is going to happen while you're alive almost certainly, and scientists are already working on the aging problem. It's very unlikely any aging will be happening after 2060 for anyone in a wealthy country.

If you won't be able to experience it until you're already 50 why bother? Who wants to be 50 forever?