Does this person have a reason to stay alive?

- Child abuse
- Domestic violence
- Attempted higher education but school was found to be non-accredited so that lead nowhere
- S*xually assaulted multiple times
- Attempted school a second time but couldn't afford to keep attending (no loans or grants)
- Abusive relationships
- Diagnosed with chronic illness
- Trouble keeping jobs because of illness
- Bipolar disorder makes relationships difficult
- Family has nothing to do with them
- They can't afford a roof over their head

Doesn't this person have a right to "opt out"?

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FrozenWasteland · 61-69, M

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.