TheOtherDave comments on Zombie existential angst? (Not p-zombies, just the regular kind. Metaphorically.) - Less Wrong

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Comment author: CronoDAS 20 May 2012 09:04:54PM *  4 points [-]

Whatever your values are, suicide will not help you achieve them. Stay alive, give 5% of your income to charity, and spend the rest on whatever makes you happy. You end up doing more good than 99% of the rest of humanity.

<semi-ironic>Well, the return on term life insurance can be pretty big, too. You can multiply your wealth by a factor of 500 by buying a 10 year term life insurance premium, making payments for two years (at which point U.S. law obligates the insurer to pay out in the event of suicide) and then dying.</semi-ironic>

Comment author: TheOtherDave 20 May 2012 09:30:04PM 1 point [-]

This needn't be ironic. If I'm willing to die to give my beneficiary a comfortable living, this might be a viable strategy.

Comment author: Annie0305 21 May 2012 12:30:28AM 1 point [-]

Yous missin' da point dere.