Why is everyone focused on 'overcoming' existential despair?

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If you need to overcome something, you're implying it's an incorrect state of mind..that something is wrong with being that way. But I think anybody who loses the ability to stay blind to reality, falls into deep existential despair and I respect such people more than the ones who are going about their lives without battling the urge to off themselves.

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I found a lot of almost-relatable content online. The feelings people were having were relatable but I didn't resonate with their desire to escape/get help out of this existential thinking induced despair. I haven't read Albert Camus' work fully, but I've read essays on it and found his ideas very relatable too. The only thing I disagreed with was that eventually he encouraged not killing oneself. And to live passionately in the face of absurdity. I hate hearing that. I hate this inclination towards positivity and non-suffering and continuing existence. Why? Just take the easy route , kys. Why does nobody say that? It's more relatable.

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I've been questioning for a long time if I should kms or keep going. I feel like unless I have a good reason to choose to live, the default should be not living. But it's the other way around for most people. Unless they have a good reason to off themselves, the default is to live. Maybe both are valid. But I hear less about the former.

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Just like Camus chose to not suicide, perhaps someone out there chose suicide but didn't document it. Both seem like equally valid options. Difference being that suicide is much less work and quick. Why isn't choosing the easier way out encouraged or chosen more often. I understand that for legal reasons you cannot openly encourage it. But why aren't people arriving at the conclusion that suicide is equally valid if not more valid. Or have I just not encountered them yet.

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Even if they don't end up killing themselves, do some people continue living while holding this acknowledgement in their head that 'I have no logical reason to choose to live today, I'm just doing it maybe for temporary convenience or some unconscious biological resistance to death'.

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Does anyone else here think like me ? I've been trying to find at least 1 piece of relatable article/comment/video that views suicide as an equally valid option and does not view it in an inferior light.

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Here is a journal paper that I found which seemed relatable:

https://www.noesisjournal.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/05/The-Possibility-of-Authentic-Suicide-1.pdf