the prospect of death is, by and large, more painful than the prospect of continuing to live.

literally no

kicking your own bucket is at most a few hours of pain before your life ends

the absence of pleasure is not necessarily bad, but the absence of pain is necessarily good to the human pysche.

whose human psyche? definitely not mine.

thinkest thou that i who saw the face of god

and tasted the eternal joys of heaven

am not tormented with ten thousand hells

in being deprived of everlasting bliss?

less painful overall

this is the calculus i was talking about

people don't work like this

i assure you (almost) nobody's outlook on life is solely determined by the brain subconsciously subtracting pain from pleasure.