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I'm crossposting from another related thread. Full disclosure, I have a clinical diagnosis of depression and lost ~2 years of memory to SSRIs.

    I have 2, (Good arguments against suicide) but one of them is a conditional whose conditions are not currently met.

    The primary one is this.

    Premise 1: Life will have an unknown amount of good and bad events Premise 2: I have already endured what I consider some of the worst possible bad, and survived. Premise 3: I cannot enjoy good events if I am dead.

    Conclusion: I shouldn't kill myself because while things may get bad, there will be things before/after the bad events that are deeply enjoyable, and I want to be there for them. I always have the option of taking my own life at some unknown point in the future if that argument loses validity for some reason. I can't exactly change my mind after the fact. In a way, knowing that I have that as an 'out' takes a lot of the pressure off.