The question is: Is it better to be alive or dead? Is it nobler to put up with all the nasty things that luck throws your way, or to fight against all those troubles by simply putting an end to them once and for all? Dying, sleeping—that’s all dying is—a sleep that ends all the heartache and shocks that life on earth gives us—that’s an achievement to wish for. To die, to sleep—to sleep, maybe to dream. Ah, but there’s the catch: in death’s sleep who knows what kind of dreams might come, after we’ve put the noise and commotion of life behind us. That’s certainly something to worry about. That’s the consideration that makes us stretch out our sufferings so long. After all, who would put up with all life’s humiliations—the abuse from superiors, the insults of arrogant men, the pangs of unrequited love, the inefficiency of the legal system, the rudeness of people in office, and the mistreatment good people have to take from bad—when you could simply take out your knife and call it quits? Who would choose to grunt and sweat through an exhausting life, unless they were afraid of something dreadful after death, the undiscovered country from which no visitor returns, which we wonder about without getting any answers from and which makes us stick to the evils we know rather than rush off to seek the ones we don’t? Fear of death makes us all cowards, and our natural boldness becomes weak with too much thinking. Actions that should be carried out at once get misdirected, and stop being actions at all. Posted by: countzander Report Post

There is no point. This is a game that you cannot win. The end does not justify the means. It is torture without a confession. It is humiliation and pain. I shouldn't have to live for the brief and few and far between moments of happiness amongst an endless sea of pointless pain. Life should be a choice. I don't want to die or kill myself but I would have opted to never have been born. No point. You suffer and die. Conscious Life is an abomination. Report Post

No, Not Anymore I spent an hour and a half writing out a reasoned, logical argument, and my damn browser crashed. The long story short is, you have to examine the world around you and find that answer for yourself. Personally, I have found that it is not, and would prefer not to do so, but that's just me. Report Post

We Didn't Ask To Be Alive Ever asked yourself what the hell you're doing on this rock? Ever wondered why you get nowhere but behind no matter how hard you try? Religion tells us we owe some god or the universe our should for being allowed to breathe the polluted air we have. I didn't ask to be here, Did you? I didn't ask to suck the life out of the planet, So why am I to be eternally punished? I don't know how we got here or why, But we surely don't deserve to be punished day after day for appearing in a place we didn't ask to come to. Posted by: Vtgrl Report Post

Is life worth living No, I don't believe it is. We live our lives working\studing for most of us probably in a job we don't like for a paycheck to use after tax to entertain yourself this is really all life is and then we die erasing all of our work and fading us into obscurity.Is really a life you would want to live.Well that is the life we live well most of us anyway.Hell only really smart people like Einstein actullay change the way we look at the world the vast majority of use are useless. All we do is harm the world not help it. Report Post

No no no, Just no Out of all my 21 years on this planet, I have come to the conclusion that while yes there certainly is happiness, Life is without question mostly just of not being understood with constant misery and suffering, And even pain, So i say no, Cause its also extremely unfair too. Report Post

Drugs, Sex, Money This is why I need to be dead because this is what life is all about nothing exciting, Everyone is a low moral sinner and I’m the only perfect one left like wtf I might as well be dead like all the other perfect people to me it’s better that way. Report Post

Life is meaningless. Happiness is just a smokescreen and a distraction. The things we call pleasures just relief us from discomforts. We eat to remove hunger pains, we have sex to quench sexual thirst which is a discomfort. We dress nicely to lift our self esteem. We drink to remove stress and escape this life for a moment. We have children to entertain us not knowing that they will also face the same cruel life we are trying to alleviate. We will all grow old and ugly. And sick and disgusting and die and all our achievements will not mean anything Posted by: hitontime Report Post

Is life worth living I guess it depends on how happy you are in life , i feel anyone should have the right to assistance suicide , cause we never asked to be here in the first place , and we live in a world of corruption and pain so no it aint in my opinion Report Post