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[-] [email protected] 15 points 1 year ago

Sounds like the mother might have postpartum depression. I’ve had similar thoughts too, and I also suffer from depression.

With my first born I was fine, and enjoyed pretty much the whole experience (colic notwithstanding). But with my second born, it took me a while to feel good about having a second child. Turns out that is natural, but it never hurts to talk to someone about it.

[-] [email protected] 7 points 1 year ago

I can't imagine wishing living forever on someone.

[-] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

I wouldn't either. I would rather they weren't born in the first place, since either dying or living forever are both bad options.

[-] [email protected] 7 points 1 year ago

Not everyone who lives hates their life. It’s fine to have children, if you do your best to take care of them. It’s also fine to not have children. You do you.

[-] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago

I wonder if the original commenter hates her own mother for similar reasons.

[-] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

Of all the things to regret or be concerned about children, mortality is the big one for her? Strange.

[-] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

Mortality is a hard concept to accept, likely even harder when you have to now consider the mortality of someone that came out of you.

True, we are all going to die some day but this planet is getting less and less habitable for us humans. We collectively are fucking the future and each generation after us is likely going to have worse lives. I think this person might have just realized that.

[-] [email protected] 0 points 1 year ago

Good things aren't bad just because they don't last forever.

[-] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

Death is also painful, and pain is generally agreed to be bad.

[-] [email protected] 0 points 1 year ago

Immortality would literally drive us all mad.

[-] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

Immortality isn't the other option they want, they would rather the child never existed in the first place. Agreed, immortality is a bad option, but so is mortality. Oblivion/nonexistence is preferably to both.

[-] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

Then achieve nirvana.

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