Does this person have a reason to stay alive?

I’ve lived a lot of this too, and I want you to know I’m not reading this from a distance. I’ve asked myself that same question in some very dark moments — when it felt like life had taken far more than it ever gave back. When the losses just kept piling up and it felt cruel to expect someone to keep going.

What I see here isn’t a person who failed or gave up. I see someone who was hurt over and over and still woke up the next day. Someone who tried — school, relationships, stability — and kept getting knocked down by things completely out of their control. That kind of exhaustion changes a person. It makes the world feel unbearably heavy.

Wanting an escape from that pain makes sense. It doesn’t mean you don’t have value or that your life is disposable. It means you’re human and you’re hurting. Deeply.

I wish you hadn’t had to be this strong. I wish you had been protected, supported, believed, and loved the way you deserved. Even if it doesn’t feel true right now, your existence still matters — not because of what you produce or endure, but simply because you are here.

You’re not alone in these thoughts, and you don’t have to carry them by yourself.

Not a right, a horrible consequence.

It is difficult to look at suicide as a problem though. It is a consequence of a social failure, not an individual one. And can only be addressed if the social failure itself was addressed. The world fails many and then turns around to demonize them. It is easy to tell you why you're wrong to wish to leave, but the truth remains the feeling itself is a consequence. I am sorry you're struggling with this.

Everyone deserves to live a decent and good life, and create good too.

Their life sounds almost identical to my own... Idk about "right" I don't believe that is particularly for me to judge. But what I CAN say is that if they're still breathing they hold within them infinite potential to heal and begin again even if the road to that is incredibly hard. That road still begins with them and their willingness to try. I can say nothing more than that. 🤷🏾

I don't have any opinion on a person's "right" to opt out. I rejected that option for myself a long time ago but I'm not arrogant enough to presume that anyone else should reach that same conclusion.

I do believe that the very fact that a person is alive, while experiencing all that, means that they do have a reason to stay alive. The trick is discovering what that reason might be. Maybe all that they have been through gives them an incredible strength that they aren't even aware of that makes them an inspiration to others. Maybe their reason is just to be empathetic to those suffering around them. Probably, it's something else entirely. I don't know. Maybe they don't either. But I believe that there is always a reason for each of us, there for the finding.

At least it has been for me.

Perhaps that person should focus on surviving in spite of the things listed above rather than dying because of it.

There is a selfishness to suicide, it can plunge the people left behind into the very same cycle. Can you really hate someone that much that you want that for them?

For me personally, suicidal thoughts is a luxury I don’t have. Too many people are counting on me to get up, function, earn and provide. I barely get a moment to think of my own pain, I’m preoccupied preventing pain for a handful of people.

I don't think so. It sounds like this person had a very tough life, but they got to find what works for them. Maybe it's not school, maybe it's youtube videos, twitch streaming, freelance artist, small musician, pottery. Could be anything but there is always something. They have to quit whining about the past and work hard on improving their future moving forward. They got to be serious about it, and ask for help with important things that stand in their way. Ask, ask, ask. Eventually, someone will help with that one thing the person cannot do by themselves. But it's important to note, no one is going to help a person who would rather whine than work hard, so that has to be the first thing to change.

That person has Worth, value, just for Being. Just because they are a miracle, a human being. Everything else you listed is secondary and not WHO they are. I'd say they have a right to happiness above all. 🌺🌠♥

Suicide is a terrible, final end that really, solves nothing, but this individual has been driven to consider it by the long-term effects of total, cruel neglect as well as physical cruelty; on top of mental and physical illness apparently recognised but not treated, and poverty.

Neglect by a "family" that not only could not care less but acts as if this person does not exist.

Negelct by a useless education "system" - if any system even exists. (Which country is this in?)

Such an individual needs proper help, but the tragedy is that none is available, perhaps through poverty.

Yes. You have certainly earned the right. Do not let your past define your future. The past is not self fulfilling.

This is a person in desperate need to help. Back in the day there was an acronym: WWJD

Sitting in traffic my driver says there's too many people in the world. 🗣

The road isn’t easy, but the sun still shines!

That’s the cheap way out.

sounds like half if the USA states.