Most Humans Choose the Easier Death

I’ve been reading more about death lately.
People speak with a rare honesty when they have no options left.

ALS is one of those conditions that strips life down to truth.
Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis (ALS) is a disease where the mind stays fully awake,
but the body slowly shuts down.
Your muscles weaken, movement disappears, swallowing becomes hard,
and eventually you lose the ability to breathe —
all while your consciousness remains intact.

And yet the most shocking part is this:

Over 90% of ALS patients choose death.
Not because they want to die,
but because the cost of staying alive is too heavy —
financially, emotionally, and for the caregivers who bear the load.

It’s not fear.
It’s not surrender.
It’s an unknowing choice — the quieter, easier path when the alternative requires immense sacrifice.

The more I thought about it, the more I realized this pattern appears everywhere,
especially in trading.

Most traders don’t lose because the market is cruel.
They lose because winning demands a transformation they never consciously choose.

To win, they would need to become someone new:
disciplined, patient, ego-less, willing to abandon the identity that ties them to the rat race.

Losing requires none of that.
Losing allows them to drift back into the familiar life they already know.

So — just like ALS patients who decline the machine that keeps them alive —
traders decline the behaviors that would make survive.

Not out of fear.
Not out of intention.
But out of the quiet gravity of the easier death.

Because if you don’t actively choose to win,
you will unknowingly choose the loss.