Gluttons for Punishment
Life at any cost. But it doesn't have to be that way.
Human beings are quite capable of asking questions that might establish the worth of life. Different people might determine different measures of worth, but some yardsticks might include pleasure, permanence, meaning, achievement, and others. A very brief survey of the nature of life reveals that human life is an exercise in futility, in whichever way you measure it. Everyone dies at a time unknown to them. Most lives also know significantly more pain than pleasure since pain is the cattle prod that makes us strive to persist in our existence. There can, of course, be no “achievement” as such since the sands of time will wash everything away. I could go on to mention the loss of loved ones, trauma, betrayal, anxiety, stress, hatred, and so on, but hopefully, you are getting the picture.