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I leave suicide as an option on the table if the expected value of the future is negative. What I mean by expected value is the same way you'd evaluate probabilistic events and payoffs.
For instance, lets suppose you're getting divorced. In the event there is alimony (suppose 60% probability), the value that you place on your life (happiness + income + etc. whatever you value) from now until some arbitrary date (lets suppose 5 years from now) is -500 (I'm making this number up). However, in the event there isn't, let's say that your net value is +100 (again, toy example).
Therefore your expected value of your life over the next 5 years is:
.6 (-500) + .4 (100) = -260.
So if you don't want to have a -260 value life for the next 5 years, then you should kill yourself because suicide sets the future value of your life to 0. With death, you neither gain nor lose because you're not working for anyone or yourself. You neither gain nor lose value because you're physically unable to evaluate or appreciate the experiences around you once you're dead. You're doing nothing but rotting in the ground.
I know a lot of people in this thread are saying to avoid the thought of suicide by pursuing happier and alternative experiences. I dislike this because everyone comes face to face with their own mortality at some point and suicide is always an option for ending perpetual misery.
Who's going to shame you when you lock yourself in your own room and putting a bullet in your head? And are you really going to care? Nah, your brain and body stopped working: you're not going to be able to care.
Society gives a shit if you're alive or dead because you're a man. You're disposable and they'll want you to kill yourself if you're not useful to them. So rather than seeing suicide as a horrible alternative and as putting yourself into a trashbin, see it as hope and a free ticket to escape.
Because when the only alternative is death, the world is your oyster. Enjoy your freedom and do whatever the fuck you want. Or kill yourself, nobody cares.
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