The only real question

Living with pleasure, even or especially simple pleasure, is certainly preferable to living in fear and pain. This seems an easy idea to accept. But to have the choice to not live at all... why is that abhorrent? Albert Camus said it most succinctly when he stated that the only real question is suicide. Why live at all? Once you answer this, emerge from that particular black box where reason doesn't operate, then the rest is, as they say, all details. Sure you want to be as happy as possible, so that means doing such and such... Not to say it's easy to actually accomplish those goals, but philosophically it's easy to accept them.