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It's rather easy to argue-- they don't kill themselves, so they presumably think their lives are worth living.
That's an easy argument but I'm not sure it's a correct one. The answers to the following questions may be different:
for at least the following reasons:
Even without taking into account cognitive biases and externalities, that argument only applies to people who don't believe in afterlife: if you thought that by killing yourself you would go to hell and by enduring shit thirty more years you would go to heaven, you'd think twice before picking the former.