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If suffering has far greater dis-utility for you than happy living has utility, is it logical to conclude that it'd be a good thing if the universe ceased to exist, thereby preventing all future suffering at the cost of all future life?
No. Not purely from that knowledge about your utility function, anyway.
Unless suffering has infinite disutility, then enough happiness would outweigh all the suffering in the world.
If we reach a Good Future, then it would be worth it even if the average modern human has negative utility - which seems far from obvious itself, even given the premise; most human lives could still experience sufficiently more happiness than suffering.