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I would say that, whether or not those stories speak
to any physical truth, they must be speaking to
profound truths of a person's system of meanings,
considering the circumstances. The allegory may
be more important than the reality, for beings
(people) who live a life mostly of abstract thought.
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Re: Suicide 2 Years, 4 Months ago
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Live for the hell of it.
That wraps it up for me.
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A little philosophy inclineth man's mind to atheism, but depth in philosophy bringeth men's minds about to religion. - Francis Bacon
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I think, for someone who is horrified at the arbitrariness of everything, suicide presents itself as a sort of natural-seeming default. It's like a sort of Schelling point standing out from among the overwhelmingly numerous options, like the number 1 does at the head of the infinite series of natural numbers.
But it is, of course, no less arbitrary than anything else you could choose to do.
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Live for the hell of it.
That wraps it up for me.
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That is a fantastic quote, if you place it after the
famous "hell is...other people" 
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I think, for someone who is horrified at the arbitrariness of everything, suicide presents itself as a sort of natural-seeming default. It's like a sort of Schelling point standing out from among the overwhelmingly numerous options, like the number 1 does at the head of the infinite series of natural numbers.
But it is, of course, no less arbitrary than anything else you could choose to do.
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Wow....nicely summed up. Yes, the promise that the horror of disorder will end.
An answer to the Existential panic.
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I can envision a time when the quality of death is greater than the quality of life. Many people, recognizing their poor quality of life may only be transient and possibly fixable with lifestyle changes and or medications. They are happy again and life seems worth while. However, many elderly people watch their physical, mental, financial, and social status decline over the years with no prospect of reversing the direction. Some of these elderly people reach a point in overall decline where they recognize its time to end this life because it has been exhausted. And so, a peaceful death appears more attractive than continuing with the dementia, pains, poverty, lack of friends, and no hope for the future.
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