{"id":649,"date":"2015-03-01T22:46:01","date_gmt":"2015-03-02T06:46:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.eskimo.com\/~nanook\/nook\/?p=649"},"modified":"2015-03-01T22:46:01","modified_gmt":"2015-03-02T06:46:01","slug":"why-dont-people-who-think-that-life-isnt-worth-living-kill-themselves","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.eskimo.com\/~nanook\/2015\/03\/01\/why-dont-people-who-think-that-life-isnt-worth-living-kill-themselves\/","title":{"rendered":"Why don’t people who think that life isn’t worth living kill themselves?"},"content":{"rendered":"

Found this on Quora, in part;<\/span><\/p>\n

Many don’t, for a variety of reasons.\u00a0 It’s irreversible, so it’s literally a last resort.\u00a0 For some who think that life isn’t worth living, they’ll find that there is a reason to live before they reach the last resort.\u00a0 Others never reach the last resort because it’s painful.\u00a0 Some find sufficient cause to live in those who would be hurt by their death.\u00a0 Some observe that death will come anyway, eventually. Still others are simply socially conditioned, through religion or other social cues, that it’s unacceptable, and are afraid there may be consequences.
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Kind of where I am right now.\u00a0 I told my daughter before she left that I didn’t think I’d see her again in this lifetime.\u00a0 I’m still holding out hope otherwise.\u00a0 Same for my youngest son though his disappearance and refusal to communicate with me was unexpected.<\/span><\/p>\n

Then there are the individuals I owe in some way, my customers who’ve stayed with me through all this, and my wife though sometimes I’m not sure how she feels about me.<\/span><\/p>\n

Then there is the commandment, “Thou shall not kill.”, and I’m assuming that includes myself.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Found this on Quora, in part; Many don’t, for a variety of reasons.\u00a0 It’s irreversible, so it’s literally a last resort.\u00a0 For some who think that life isn’t worth living, they’ll find that there is a reason to live before … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-649","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","wpautop"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eskimo.com\/~nanook\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/649","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eskimo.com\/~nanook\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eskimo.com\/~nanook\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eskimo.com\/~nanook\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eskimo.com\/~nanook\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=649"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.eskimo.com\/~nanook\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/649\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eskimo.com\/~nanook\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=649"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eskimo.com\/~nanook\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=649"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eskimo.com\/~nanook\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=649"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}