1. Ed Leringstein, November 21, 2009:

   If you perceive your life to be hell on earth, it is.
   If you perceive your life is a gift to be treasured, it will be that.

2. Marina D, November 21, 2009:

   One philosophical reason is to assume Schopenhauer was an idiot, which he is. His premise comes from his own sad perceptions on life. Not everyone sees their life as wretched.

3. ., November 21, 2009:

   philosophical???????
   USE YOUR BRAIN

4. petplane, November 21, 2009:

   You won’t be around to see how it turned out!

5. oldmarin, November 21, 2009:

   SIMPLY BECAUSE GOD DOES NOT WANT US TO

6. plant.bo, November 21, 2009:

   Because if someone feels things in their life couldn’t possibly get worse, then all that could happen is his life getting better. There is always the hope that something good will happen. For a Christian, heaven is a reason not to commit suicide, because no matter how much the world sucks, he or she could go to heaven, and if they kill themselves, they will go to hell, because suicide is a sin in Christianity. And finally, most people have at least someone to love them, and they definitely could stand losing him if he committed suicide (for example, a teenager who commits suicide would take his parents lives away, as well as his own)

7. Black Dahlia, November 21, 2009:

   Where in nature do you see suicide. We use nature as a reference point for our own behavior all the time. Therefore, we see that suicide is not a logical decision.
   One may argue that our intelligence overpowers the instinct to survive, but who is to say that a culmination in reasoning with ones self that leads to the decision of suicide, is correct?. Obviously the person who wants to kill themself has that say, but that still doesn’t mean they are right and justified.
   The goal of life is to achieve enlightenment through learning the views of others. People should not be so ignorant to ignore the fact that even though they may believe things that have happened to them give them reason to commit suicide, there are still basically equivalents of them at another place in the world with similliar situations who are still living and surviving. Why is that so?, there is your answer, continue the journey.

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