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Your current self has delusions that it influences your future self's decision to commit suicide far more than it really does.
A survey "are you likely to commit suicide sometime within the next 5 years" will have drastically fewer yes answers than reality.
You keep asserting this, but I doubt (not strongly) that it's actually true. There was a good long while, when I was younger, where I was pretty sure I'd commit suicide eventually, but I've since changed my mind.
I may be generalizing from one example, but you're asserting with no examples.
Why did you change your mind?
Some kind of shift in the chemicals in my brain, most likely. No explicit reasoning behind it. Oh, also transhumanism, maybe.
also this