Wouldn’t you say that it is ~~ even based on the fact that we may not realize unconsciously ALL of the reasons we’ve made that choice.
YOU yourself make that choice “to be” everyday in which you wake up and decide to continue on though some would never make your choice “to be” - you’re still living and it may not be as bad as some think, considering how miserable some think of their life which is far removed from your own ~ yet you continue on.
If you’re speaking of suicide here, who can say for sure? I remember a time when, though I can’t ever see myself killing myself, there were a few moments (figuratively speaking) when I came to understand or close to understanding how some might want to take their own life.
Is it a choice? They say that freedom is when we have nothing left to lose. Perhaps this is when we make our choice.
So I suppose that I would say that we do have a choice but when we’ve come too close to that black hole, perhaps there can be no going back.
I think that we also make the choice “to not be” in particular moments ~ not suicide wise but when we refuse to continue on with courage…when we only see gloom and the doom, which is natural. After all, we are not gods but human flesh and blood. Sometimes it does take a great deal of courage and stick-to-it-iveness to continue on - along with a grudging OK to life.