The case against suicide Statistics shows that every year, 700,000 people committed suicide globally every year. In fact, there are always suicide cases happening everyday. This is the harsh reality. And it doesn't even matter whether we like it or not, it happened, they happened.
Logically, we 'choose' to be alive simply just because of our biologically hardwired survival instincts. There's nothing more than that, essentially. All other reasons are basically just cope. But, humans being human, our consciousness can also (specially) 'choose' whether to live, or cease to exist (if we really want to). Other animals don't have this (please correct me if I'm wrong though).
If we look at the bigger picture, cosmically speaking, there is nothing special about whether we live or die. Life goes on. Nothing lasts forever. And nothing really matters, in the grand scheme of things. We're all just like ants: some live, some die. That's just the way it is. Any other notions than that, it's basically just our man-made delusions.