I'd rather set a date to die. How about you?

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If I could, I would like to be able to basically schedule a day to go to a clinic with my loved ones and die. Not just because I would be terminally ill or anything. Just because I want, I already lived enough and so I feel ready to go on.

What are your takes on this?

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Typically I've found that willingness to cease existing is a temporary thing. Just ask the guy who survived jumping off the golden gate bridge. It seemed like a good idea at first, but he changed his mind on the way down. Be generous to your future self and continue to exist.

A big part of existing is learning to find joy and let go of the stuff that doesn't matter and the stuff you can't change. There is joy in small things. The first sip of coffee every morning. Seeing someone you love. Listening to music. Reading a book. It's important to notice them rather than just let them fly by you.

Try doing something you haven't done since you were a kid or never got to do. Draw a picture, fly a kite, fold paper airplanes, and watch cartoons while eating cereal. Ride a bicycle around a park or try origami. Go somewhere you haven't gone before.

If I could set a date to die, it would be REALLY far into the future. Millenia even. There is just so much to being alive. Even when it feels like there really isn't.

I would rather never die, so long as I can keep being healthy and learning. Of course that's unrealistic for now.

I guess setting a date to die on my own terms is the second-best option.

Reminds me of Stephen Zweig’s suicide. ‘I have lived enough’.

I respect that, although for me I believe it to be a point of lostness, rather than an end.

I would set the date 170 years from now if I could. I think 200 years is a nice duration to live.

Why not 300?

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