They may have a family or loved one that they don't want to leave. They may see something beautiful in the world or their life. They may have a hope for the future.
Our bodies are merely vehicles for our sex drives.
Many chemicals react and mix to keep you happy enough to plow through poon.
What is that you say? You get no poon? Then you are worthless and weren't meant for reproduction. Probably just a one-night stand mishap.
Don't fret. You will see an increased hatred for yourself so intense you start smoking, drinking too much, and all kinds of other self-destructive activities. Just let it happen. Enjoy.
I used to believe people were genitacly wired to survive. I dont think that is the case anymore. When some people are faced with certain death in there mind. They give up and take death without a fight. Then there are others who even though they are faced with death they fight with every fiber of there being to continue living.
Why is it that some people are so quick to give up and others are driven to survive?
For example I dont understand how a person can go on a killing spree only to take his own life afterwards. What was the point in killing all of thpse people if you then take your own life. It is a worthless way to end your life. I would want to live so I could at least take pride in what I have done. People will spend years debating why you did what you did and only you will know the truth. That is the only way you can remain in control even though you might be in prison.
"Life can so easily be taken. Yet to live requires constant work."
Correction: Life can so easily be taken by other things. Taking your own life is not an easy task, but neither is living life to the fullest, so most instead find it easier to just decay by the warmth of a dead end life.
It's also faster to destroy than create, so no mystery there.
"What is it, that keeps people moving forward?"
I don't agree with the implication behind this question simply because the majority of people move only as far forward as they have to to continue stagnating within the status quo they have built for themselves. People tend to be drawn toward Inertia.
"Or is it the fear of death itself and the uncertainty of what happens when we die?"
Even when the fear is gone, there's still a nagging tug that can stop suicide instinctively hardwired into there. It's why most people go for fast answers that can't be taken back over a slow death (ie: "Suicide By Cop", Overdosing Pills, Gunshot to the Brain, things like that instead of starving/dehydrating to death).
"I used to believe people were genitacly wired to survive. I dont think that is the case anymore."
Oh, we are, but we're also wired for things that can be counter-productive to other wirings, contradictory things at points even.
"When some people are faced with certain death in there mind. They give up and take death without a fight."
How much experience with suicide do you have, be it yourself or others you've known? How much of a sample are you gauging here? There's always a fight of some kind, even if said fight wasn't against the suicidal ideation itself.
"Why is it that some people are so quick to give up and others are driven to survive?"
Because we aren't all the same carbon copy individual, but in the same regard suicide is very rarely easy.
"For example I dont understand how a person can go on a killing spree only to take his own life afterwards. What was the point in killing all of thpse people if you then take your own life."
Either want to go out with a bang, want their life to have meant something even if only for that moment, want to ensure they cross a point of no return, want to be remembered instead of snuffed out like a candle during their last days through some form of existential life crisis, want to feel like, after having been starved of it for years, that they finally have feelings of power and control over an outcome regardless of the outcome itself, there's plenty of reasons.
"I would want to live so I could at least take pride in what I have done. People will spend years debating why you did what you did and only you will know the truth. That is the only way you can remain in control even though you might be in prison."
It's not always a matter of pride, and dying means not having to face the consequences of your actions. What you do before you die is one of the few times that you can behave untethered by others expectations and long-term cautions. In other cases, taking their own life may feel like the first instance of control that individual's ever had over their own lives (Media Example: Walter White during the first season of Breaking Bad).
"The survival drive still functions to serve reproduction."
There's got to be more to it than just that.
by nonoPROThe survival drive still functions to serve reproduction.
And maybe those mass murderers are merely killing themselves with there destructive personalities more and more anyway until the only way they see out (because they were too pussified to kill themself) is by killing everything else. They self destruct to the point of no return by killing knowing their actions are going to cause imminent death. Only then most of them do it. Some of them still can't.
They are pussies in my book.
In the end, it is just one method of suicide. To us it just appears to be mass murder.
I like your take on that. Very true. I also believe suicide is a act of cowardness.