This question was originally answered on quora by suzanne sadedin, ph.d. So, if when we die, we cease to exist and do not continue in some form of eternal existence, then we must live with the understanding that death─ although always present ─enlightens us to live each day as if it were the last, making the most of it. To sum it up, there are as much answers to your question as there are humans living on this planet, because everyone living has a reason to do it, those who don´t have a reason would end their lifes, since if they fear death, that again is a reason to live
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There is also a thread about suicide here
Sometimes we live life as a bug, or a flower, or in this case a human being
It is believed that when you live as a human you are being granted the gift of higher consciousness before reaching even higher levels after we die. In this article, we explore why we die from both a biological and philosophical perspective and why, paradoxically, we might need to die to give our lives meaning The thought experiment however, do we really want to not die Consider the following thought experiment
Suppose that some sorcerer, or a supernatural entity, offered you to live forever.