I didn't assign any ethical value to the word. And if you have a much broader sense of reality to existence than most people, "life or death" is a meaningless

I didn't assign any ethical value to the word. And if you have a much broader sense of reality to existence than most people, "life or death" is a meaningless term. There is, or there is. There is no other. If you can consider "is", then you "is" :). And not to encourage current reality behavior that is disapproved of, but I would say that a highly disagreeable situation is a motivation to choose "NEXT".