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.
I can’t imagine wishing living forever on someone.
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.
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.
I wonder if the original commenter hates her own mother for similar reasons.
Of all the things to regret or be concerned about children, mortality is the big one for her? Strange.
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.
Immortality would literally drive us all mad.
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.
Then achieve nirvana.
Good things aren’t bad just because they don’t last forever.
Death is also painful, and pain is generally agreed to be bad.
