I want to watch the remaining episodes of “Breaking Bad”.
I also want to stick around to see if we discover any habitable planets in other solar systems, or maybe even some evidence of extraterrestrial life!
And… no, that’s about it. But I guess it’s enough.
What keeps you going?
I have 2 tickets to see a band in a few weeks.
The sex is infrequent but still great fun.
I didn’t do enough things with my life by a long shot, and I don’t want to die feeling like a loser.
Also, there’s probably plenty of cool stuff that will be discovered during the next decades and I want to see that.
And two people would be very distraught if I were to die right now, especially if I had comited suicide.
Game of Thrones should keep me around 'till at least 2018.
There’s a lot.
I would love to life forever (at least forseeably), if I could. And I’ve spent most of my life suffering from suicidal depression.
As much as it may seem to many that society is crumbling or whatever, there are more and more people that come up with astounding ways of being and doing and thinking of things that really gives me hope for humanity (if only we paid more attention to them instead of Honey Boo Boo, eh?).
Technological and scientific breakthroughs. OMFG! There’s some amazing stuff coming down the pike in just the next few years, not to mention the next several decades! iPhone 11b or whatever is going to be pretty cool, yeah, but that ain’t nuthin’ compared to some of the other cool stuff people are working on.
Neuroscience. It’s in it’s infancy. Don’t you want to see what happens when it starts to crawl, walk, run? Just having the ability to pull a Louie DePalma “Nyaah!” at what passes for modern psychology will be pretty satisfying. Having a true understanding of what’s going on under the hood of consciousness is going to be unbelievably empowering.
Movies, TV, videogames! Virtual reality experiences are going to be ever increasingly awesome! Yeah, there’s the risk that it’s all going to be pure market-driven, lowest common denominator, slot-machine addiction crap. But there are some real artists and visionaries out there who want to become famous for giving you a life-changing experience. And the tools and concepts those people (one of whom could be you?) have at their disposal are evolving constantly.
Globalization. And I don’t mean the conspiracy theory political shit. I mean exchanging bullshit with some dude from freaking Bangkok over the internet on a regular basis. This stuff has been happening for only a short while. The kids who grew up with that capability are still in high school. Imagine what their kids will be like when they are adults and making policy decisions?
I could go on, and on, and on. And I want to! It’s too bad Ray Kurzweil is a few ticks off, eh?
You stole my reason for living!
My reason used to be seeing the completion of Stephen King’s Dark Tower series. I quit smoking for that? :mad:
I don’t want my wife to be a wealthy widow. 
This is Cam Newton’s breakout year
Because I’m too tired ATM.
That’s about it.
The 2017 Total Solar Eclipse. This eclipse will be the first total solar eclipse visible from the contiguous United States since 1979.
It’ll be a whole new baseball season in 7 months.
Very little.
I want to see the final season of Warehouse 13. And the next Star Wars film, so that’s a couple of years right there.
Otherwise not much is keeping me here.
Inertia mainly.
Reasons so sad in being so mundane. I won’t be able to play the next game in a series: TES, GTA, Bioshock, etc.
That although I wouldn’t want to hurt anyone I left behind, I would feel the worst about leaving my cat.
Helping others is my big motivator. Actions that improve someone’s lot in life give me a real sense of satisfaction/purpose and allows for the tiny conceit of," If I wasn’t here to do it, who would?".
I’m not finished.
The list of things I have yet to do is growing faster than my ability to cross them off.
There is someone out there who fucks me and calls me nice things.
Frankly, sticking around only for upcoming movies and TV shows and video games seems like a hollow existence at best. You’re not going to remember them after you die anyway, so what’s the point?
The best reason not to kill yourself is that eventually, no matter what, you will die. Just kick up your heels and wait.
There are too many bastards on this message board who don’t deserve the last word.
