I intentionally left it open.
Unless you're suicidal I think there's really only one correct answer to your question.
I'm guessing @InnocentBystander is a miserable liar: when the day comes and they need diapers, they will probably keep choosing to die some other day, just like all the other people who use diapers continue to choose to die some other day.
If I told you that I am young now, and in 10 years I will be old so I prefer to kill myself then, would you believe me? Does it have any meaning at all if 10 years ago I wanted to die today, but today I clearly don't?
Are you contemplating suicide?
Unless you're suicidal I think there's really only one correct answer to your question.
I'm guessing @InnocentBystander is a miserable liar: when the day comes and they need diapers, they will probably keep choosing to die some other day, just like all the other people who use diapers continue to choose to die some other day.
If I told you that I am young now, and in 10 years I will be old so I prefer to kill myself then, would you believe me? Does it have any meaning at all if 10 years ago I wanted to die today, but today I clearly don't?
Are you contemplating suicide?
I'm guessing @InnocentBystander is a miserable liar
I'm not miserable.
I'm a happy liar.
Actually, I stand behind my answer. I did not say I would take my life at that point. I said that is when I would want to go. If/when I get to that point, I'll likely strap on the diapers and continue forward like most. But academically speaking, if there is a good time to go, that is the one that I think is best.
> I'm guessing @InnocentBystander is a miserable liar
I'm not miserable.
I'm a happy liar.
Actually, I stand behind my answer. I did not say I would take my life at that point. I said that is when I would want to go. If/when I get to that point, I'll likely strap on the diapers and continue forward like most. But academically speaking, if there is a good time to go, that is the one that I think is best.
Yeah, I probably claimed a little too much poetic license there...
To me it seems like precarious philosophical viewpoint, to talk about the best time to go, while knowing that your future self will almost certainly disagree. Sounds like with further thought you might come around to their way of thinking.
But hey, who knows, perhaps you'll live 20 incontinent years wallowing in regret, thinking that you missed your perfect time to end it all before accepting the diapers damp embrace... now I too will think long and hard before setting out down that path.
Yeah, I probably claimed a little too much poetic license there...
To me it seems like precarious philosophical viewpoint, to talk about the best time to go, while knowing that your future self will almost certainly disagree. Sounds like with further thought you might come around to their way of thinking.
But hey, who knows, perhaps you'll live 20 incontinent years wallowing in regret, thinking that you missed your perfect time to end it all before accepting the diapers damp embrace... now I too will think long and hard before setting out down that path.
You keep talking about choice, but there's not really a choice being made. Suicide is always on the list of options, but very few would do it.
Waking up the next day isn't really a choice, it's just something that happens. "Well, I didn't die yesterday. We'll see what happens today." If you could will yourself dead by choice many of us that have been through depression would have died long ago, but it simply doesn't work that way.
You keep talking about choice, but there's not really a choice being made. Suicide is always on the list of options, but very few would do it.
Waking up the next day isn't really a choice, it's just something that happens. "Well, I didn't die yesterday. We'll see what happens today." If you could will yourself dead by choice many of us that have been through depression would have died long ago, but it simply doesn't work that way.
I haven't experienced suicidal thoughts, so am the opposite of an expert here.
I can't pretend to understand your viewpoint. The difference between willing yourself dead, and having the mental motivation to do an action that results in suicide seems like a very fine distinction. If they are as different as you say, it sounds like a good thing.
I haven't experienced suicidal thoughts, so am the opposite of an expert here.
I can't pretend to understand your viewpoint. The difference between willing yourself dead, and having the mental motivation to do an action that results in suicide seems like a very fine distinction. If they are as different as you say, it sounds like a good thing.
How?