Posted by Camille Dumont on December 27, 2003, at 20:12:39
The more I twist and turn ideas in my head, the more hopeless it seems.
I've asked myself millions of times "what's the meaning of life?" and come up with no satisfactory answer.
Yet, everybody around me seems to be utterly certain that life is a preferable state to death. How so? How can society as a whole compare something with something else that is totally unknown.
Is the bias "genetically-inherent" as in its built into us to want to live ... and if so, is it possible that mine might be a bit damaged?
If we afford animals (and some people) the dignity of a painless end when they are phisically terminally ill or when their quality of life is almost nil and won't improve, why is it that death must be avoided at all costs when it comes to psychological illness that just won't go away? Why can't we benefit from the same compassion?
And given that I can't find a way to rationalize the fact that life is inherently better than death, isn't normal that if I'm not well I'm looking to the only alternate state to life? If so, why does everybody around me seem to disapprove and / or convince me that they "know better" and that once I'm "cured", somehow I'll "get it" and want to live?
Is there something I don't get? Am I missing a few screws or something?
poster:Camille Dumont
thread:293866
URL: http://www.dr-bob.org/babble/social/20031217/msgs/293866.html