Hey, Mr Goodall if you can read this, do you miss good conversations about interesting problems and talking with smart people? Please be here tomorrow and start participating actively in Hacker News. We would hugely appreciate your experience in ecology.
There is not any glory, grace, elegance or pride in distroying oneself, and the idea of "pain avoidance at all costs" is grossly overvalued.
Stating this as fact does not make it so. Some cultures glorified this kind of thing.
I think that Mr Goodall would feel useful and fine here, probably, but I can be wrong. The man has a lot to offer and a lot to receive still. I agree that nature is in flames and this is really depressing, but... you are 104 years old and your bottom is taking the shape of a Galapagos tortoise?, so what?. Try to reach your 108 birthday, is a nicer shaped number (I would try to live until 123 and set a new Guinness world record as the longer lasting human ecosystem just for revenge).
On the other hand. Nowadays there is a glorification of suicide in the news that is very annoying in my opinion. People with candles, and drawings of flowers, and all this BS. I had helped some people after trying to commit suicide (or faking suicides for attention). Young girls throwing up pills, violated women with knife cuts in the wrists. I can tell you that is not funny. Not at all. The bullied boy that killed himself causes an indescribable pain to their parents and friends. This is how you spread and multiply the pain, not how you stop it. Your solution is having all your bones broken trough your skin and blood in the ears as response for somebody giving you a kick or calling you queer? You are an idiot, boy, not an hero. This should be said more often.
He's not ending his life because someone called him a queer.
If I wanted to end my life at such an old age there would absolutely nothing you or anyone else could say to change my mind.
You stating your opinions as if they were facts would just make me want to speed up the process of ending it.
I would say exactly the same, anyways. Just don't do it and thank me later. Please do not rush to kill yourself faster because you want to punish somebody (in this case a stranger in internet, none less). I had seen people trying this treat trick before, and is ridiculous. I will (maybe) feel bad for a while. You will be dead forever. I win.
Don't expect me to push you by the cliff just to move any agenda one step further. The alternative is to start sharing your house with somebody that cares for you, solves part of your problems and makes your life less demanding. For rice's sake, how this can be worse than death?.