I think being dead is better than living.

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Dead vs. Living.

Today, I vote for living. And certainly for the last month. Not that long ago I would've voted for dead. Now to continue my "living" streak.

But why do you want to live?

The majority of my life was nothing but pain, misery and suffering. Because I was abused a lot when I was younger, I developed PTSD. Couple my immigrant upbringing with autism, and being gay, and you have someone who was a walking, talking disaster, a suicide waiting to happen. And, at 30 years old, that's exactly what I attempted. Then, for the next 25 years, more time at being a drug and alcohol abuser as well as homelessness.

What finally helped was that, at 55, I got SSDI which allowed me to find a home, medical care, and other benefits from being a disabled 55 year old person. If someone would have told me when I was 19 that it would take 36 more years till my life got better, there's no way i would've waited that long. Looking back, I think I held on because, at heart, I'm an explorer and live to find out what's coming around the corner. I love tinkering with things. These days I spend enormous amounts of hours discovering what Android TV boxes can and can't do and trying to make them do more. Tomorrow, what else will there be to discover? I'll just have to wait to find out.

Only if you've got sh*t life syndrome.

To be an example to nihilists like you that despite the obstacles life can throw at you, it can still get better if you never give up!

We're all going to die eventually. Some days I feel like throwing in the towel and embracing the grim reaper's cold boney arms.

Nah stick your tongue out t the Grim Reaper, he can wait: he's got his hands full as it is.

Maybe if I become his bestest friend he'll let me cheat death?

Thats a good point. You are going to die eventually anyway. Why not get whats yours while your still here?

I hope Death is really a nice person like Santa Muerte (she looks scary but is very merciful)



Or Andrew from Touched By An Angel



Or the Angel of Death from The Twilight Zone



I like the idea of death being a compassionate and non-judging entity who ends a dying person's suffering and guides their soul to the afterlife.

The guy from The Twilight Zone looks like he just sucked on a particularly sour lemon.

Would sooner take Muerte or Andrew...

He's not a bad guy though, he's just doing his job and behaves very professional trying to convince an old man who doesn't want to die yet to accept his fate.

It's actually one of the best episodes. I bet you would like it.

There was way too much sentiment in that show (touched by an angel) it made me uncomfortable.

It's OK. But for the record I'm not religous at all and yet I still liked it. Sometimes it's good to watch an uplifting show about miserable humans being aided or finding redemption.

I'm getting kind of tired of these new mean-spirited shows like Game of Thrones and American Horror Story. Seeing oversexed humans brutally murder, torture, and cruelly manipulate each other is disgusting to me.

I hardly watch TV so I haven't seen any of those.
I remember the Touched by an Angel show because my religious nut mother used to watch it.

My mama used to watch it all the time too, yet like me she's not religous.

I wish I could find a way to watch all the episodes. They should bring it to Hulu or Netflix.