@KevinSimler he cracks me up - he literally can't conceive of people not being glad to be alive, like William James' description of Whitman
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@KevinSimler how would you measure that? suicide is very hard, much harder than people think, and a million americans a year still try it
@sarahdoingthing I... had never thought about that. Always assumed exit would be easy if life became unworthy enough. Emphasis on "assumed."
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@KevinSimler totally! I wrote about the function of this belief here http://theviewfromhell.blogspot.com/2012/04/why-we-believe-suicide-is-easy.html … -
@sarahdoingthing still I think that on average people are happy to have been born. do you have arguments to the contrary? - 4 more replies
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