Is life worth it

Answer 1

Yes: Life is worth it. Even to those who (like me) have a disability that has forever robbed them of some of its best joys. Because the alternative is literally unthinkable, even for those who believe in an after-existence. And because being alive always offers something new.

One thing that is NOT ever worth doing: committing suicide. Because then you've lost your chance to move in life forever.

Whatever comes after death, it isn't life as we know life when alive. Better, worse, neither, or nothing -- we don't have any way of knowing. This does not make religion futile, as long as we remember that part of what religion does is give lifemeaning and help us cope with the natural human terror of death, our own and others'.

That said, I don't believe suicide is ever quite the "right thing" to do -- even in the face of a crushing personal disgrace, an agonizing loss, an extreme illness or horribly frustrating disability (such as mine), or while enduring some excruciating physical pain or mental torture -- because one thing that being alive guarantees is continuing to change. Change is part of the nature of existing in time, which is being alive.

This was the discovery I made personally just this year, when I was forced to choose for good, forced by my own life's circumstances, to decide whether I wanted to go on living knowing what things I could most likely never have (things almost everyone else has and may even take for granted, and cannot conceive of living without), or die by my own hand or by that of another, all because I could not accept life without what gifts I'd never known.

I had come to a point where I had recovered from a serious mental illness as much as I could, receiving the best help available to me, but knew that the chances of altering the massive damage done to my nervous system and brain were almost nonexistent. ALMOST.

But it isn't the hope of finding the impossible to be possible that kept me alive -- it was the realization that if I died now, I'd never get what I'd lost anyway, so what good would dying do? Plus I'd quite possibly never get anything else.

Even for a deeply religious person, which I admit I am not, or for a deeply moral person (which I have no choice to be, given the nature of my condition), suicide is not generally considered the 'moral' choice for dealing with personal loss; there have been exceptions throughout history, but these were mostly in religions which, unlike Christianity, believed in reincarnation, so that death was not accepted as a reality at all! But I do not believe in reincarnation, and even if I did, why would ending "this" life help me or anyone in the "next"?

So, I chose to live, because if I am to have any of what life offers, it follows that I must be alive to do it!That is true not only for me but for you and for everyone in the world.

Anything else -- miracles or more losses; surprises or disappointments; inspiration or heartbreak, or simply a sense of peace -- will have to follow on that first decision: to accept being alive, which is BEING. (To beis to exist is to live.)

As soon as you die, change as we know it stops. (The change which is the disintegration of the body without life is not, after all, something that is experienced by the one who has died, but, rather, by those he or she has left behind, who, like myself long ago as a very young child, are often severely traumatized by the witnessing of the death of another person, and must struggle with it for a long time.) Life is over. It exists only in a fixed and immovable strip of time. In the present and future, life of the one who has just died exists only in memory -- the memories held by those who live.

As long as we continue to live, we have no real way of knowing that life will remain unendurable. That means we have hope, if we can perceive it.

Remembering this is what helps prevent people from committing suicide -- or murder.

Life is worth everything.

I once attempted suicide but won't do so again. Life may not seem worth it but if there's an after-life, there's no way of knowing if it'd be better than a seemingly wasted, deprived life. According to a TV documentary, someone who attempted suicide was given a warning from God or Being of Light during a near-death experience, and was told to either return to consciousness and living on Earth, or experience even more suffering if choosing to die and go into the afterlife. That's enough to scare me into never attempting suicide again. So I'm stuck here, sitting around waiting for the end of the world. But if I live to see the end of the world, life will be worth it.

Answer 2

Yes, life is worth it. There are endless possibilities, experiences, and connections that can bring fulfillment and joy. It's important to reach out for support if you're struggling, and remember that things can get better.