My reasons for not committing suicide:

1. If I work hard enough someday I will be able to prove to my mother that I'm not a loser.

2. The possibly of surviving a suicide attempt and ending up disabled, which would just make me even more depressed. Becoming a vegetable is also a possibility. Of course, that would resolve the whole depression issue but I don't really like the idea of drooling in a nursing home with strangers wiping my *** and feeding me at age 26.

3. I'm an atheist so I'm afraid of death. The thought of not existing is frightening.