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There’s no perhaps about it. I’m fairly indifferent to life, a state of mind that was driven home when I had a near-death experience and realized that I really wouldn’t have minded all that much if the incident had gone the other way. I’m not actually suicidal, but life oftentimes seems like more of a drudgery than anything else. Given the moderately high number of suicides in my extended family, I wonder if that might be partly a genetic trait.
I'm the same, though I haven't had a near-death experience in a while so it's hard to judge how I'd genuinely react. It does make it weird when I'm watching a movie (especially horror movies, which I quite enjoy) and I see somebody going to extreme lengths to stay alive. I just have this disconnect where I'm thinking "why would you bother?". When I talk to other people about death, they are quite scared of non-existence, and it's hard for me to relate. The crappy part about dying is the pain of dying, and how your friends/family will miss you. But non-existence? You were non-existing for billions of years before, and it didn't seem to bother you.
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Utterly wild to me.
More things in heaven and earth, Horatio.
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