I've been suicidal in the past and honestly I think of the self preservation instinct to be irrational
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it's something imposed on you by evolution like the sex drive - Jung called both part of eros
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EY waxes poetic abt Eastern philosophy but he refuses to accept its biggest tenet
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which is that continuity of consciousness and identity isn't real and doesn't matter
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the person you were 10 years ago is already dead, all change is slow death, death is just sudden change
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Think abt it - what Dumbledore wants is to cease existing as the person he is now
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he doesn't believe "life isn't worth living" but HIS life - with his memories and trauma - isn't
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hence his addiction to pulling his memories out of his head so he can temporarily stop feeling him
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but of course saying he'd be ok with all his memories being wiped isn't functionally different from dying
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Replying to @arthur_affect @BootlegGirl
They're not wiped, though. If he wanted to really wipe them, he could.
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but that's not fundamentally different from dying
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