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I won't give usual bullshit normie lines about this. Yes, being ugly sucks - it's a terrible blow, comparable to a serious chronic disease in terms of reduction of quality of life. It makes a lot of things harder, and love/sex nigh impossible. People instinctively know this, that's why every parent hopes his child will be beautiful (and becomes delusional when it's not the case).
That being said:
1) Killing yourself is a lot harder than what people imagine, because survival instincts kick in with extreme force when your limbic system realizes it's going to perish, and they cause an involuntary emergency/escape response (similar to involuntary breathing after holding your breath too long) associated with feel-good neurotransmitter release to make you optimistic again. Evolution is not that dumb, genes don't like being tricked in such a way.
That's why successful suicides have all been impulsive and instantaneous (eg gunshot) or done under altered states of consciousness.
The most likely scenario is that you will setup a date for your suicide (eg birthday) and keep postponing it each time because "reasons" that will seem perfectly valid due to increased feel-good neurotransmitters. Then you're 25 and you realize you should have learned a programming language or passed a degree instead of planning suicides.
2) If the lack of love / sex is what worries you the most, yeah you won't get your high school oneitises, but you could still get women through other routes: sexpatting, famemaxxing, sugarmaxxing, etc.
3) Your mental state is negatively warped by a mood disorder. Medication / electroshocks can help.
4) There are quality non-sexual copes out there.
5) If you can't tolerate being ugly, plastic surgery can help down the line.
6) Suicide is a very serious sin in all mainstream religions.
7) Evidence suggests that technological progress has not stopped but is actually accelerating. Lots of quality copes coming, such as full-immersion VR, high-tech plastic surgery, rejuvenation pills, and even the perspective of leaving behind your earthly carcass for a cyborg body.
That being said:
1) Killing yourself is a lot harder than what people imagine, because survival instincts kick in with extreme force when your limbic system realizes it's going to perish, and they cause an involuntary emergency/escape response (similar to involuntary breathing after holding your breath too long) associated with feel-good neurotransmitter release to make you optimistic again. Evolution is not that dumb, genes don't like being tricked in such a way.
That's why successful suicides have all been impulsive and instantaneous (eg gunshot) or done under altered states of consciousness.
The most likely scenario is that you will setup a date for your suicide (eg birthday) and keep postponing it each time because "reasons" that will seem perfectly valid due to increased feel-good neurotransmitters. Then you're 25 and you realize you should have learned a programming language or passed a degree instead of planning suicides.
2) If the lack of love / sex is what worries you the most, yeah you won't get your high school oneitises, but you could still get women through other routes: sexpatting, famemaxxing, sugarmaxxing, etc.
3) Your mental state is negatively warped by a mood disorder. Medication / electroshocks can help.
4) There are quality non-sexual copes out there.
5) If you can't tolerate being ugly, plastic surgery can help down the line.
6) Suicide is a very serious sin in all mainstream religions.
7) Evidence suggests that technological progress has not stopped but is actually accelerating. Lots of quality copes coming, such as full-immersion VR, high-tech plastic surgery, rejuvenation pills, and even the perspective of leaving behind your earthly carcass for a cyborg body.