I assume you’re looking for a rational explanation, but it’s rather based on personal experience. It’s because I think my life with constant chronic pain has more negative experiences than positive ones but I have decided I should keep on living.
I am probably just stating the obvious, but I encourage you to chat with LLMs to brainstorm solutions for your chronic pain (the more context you give, the better). You can also use Elicit to find good studies (you can filter in randomised controlled trials (RCTs), meta-analyses, and systematic reviews). I am happy to have a look if you are open to sharing more (privately or not).
A negative life is typically defined has one with more suffering than happiness, regardless of whether the person living it wants to keep living or not. Wanting to end one’s life is a much stricter condition than having a negative life. I estimated 6.37 % of people have negative lives in the sense of preferring to not have been born, but only 0.0088 % of people commited suicide in 2021. I assume people who ended their lives had negative lives when they ended, so I estimate only 0.138 % (= 8.8*10^-5/0.0637) of people with negative lives in a given year end their lives that year.
The above suggests the vast majority of people with negative lives do not end their lives. I think this is because commiting suicide is hard, people hope their lives may become positive in the future, and believe that ending their lives would harm others.
I assume you’re looking for a rational explanation, but it’s rather based on personal experience. It’s because I think my life with constant chronic pain has more negative experiences than positive ones but I have decided I should keep on living.
I am probably just stating the obvious, but I encourage you to chat with LLMs to brainstorm solutions for your chronic pain (the more context you give, the better). You can also use Elicit to find good studies (you can filter in randomised controlled trials (RCTs), meta-analyses, and systematic reviews). I am happy to have a look if you are open to sharing more (privately or not).
A negative life is typically defined has one with more suffering than happiness, regardless of whether the person living it wants to keep living or not. Wanting to end one’s life is a much stricter condition than having a negative life. I estimated 6.37 % of people have negative lives in the sense of preferring to not have been born, but only 0.0088 % of people commited suicide in 2021. I assume people who ended their lives had negative lives when they ended, so I estimate only 0.138 % (= 8.8*10^-5/0.0637) of people with negative lives in a given year end their lives that year.
The above suggests the vast majority of people with negative lives do not end their lives. I think this is because commiting suicide is hard, people hope their lives may become positive in the future, and believe that ending their lives would harm others.