Would You Choose Pain Over Non-Existence?

I searched this on google- The pain that is existence...and I found an interesting ongoing discussion on a Physics forum addressing this question:

Would You Choose Pain Over Non-Existence?

Those guys on that Physics forum seemed to be very smart and dug deep into the meat of the question. They questioned and analysed it from many angles. Here is the link to the interesting and for me very thought provoking discussion- link. I thought I'd throw it out here on the Intent community and see what comes of it. Where we go with it. What my friends on here think?

For me life is a constant battle or stuggle to live in the light or not. To be in pain or not...the darkness and the light always fighting. I believe we all feel pain. It is what makes us human. However it is our going into the pain that makes us reach joy and enlightenment. It is not easy and sadly some of us loose the battle. Sometimes the extreme result of the loss to this struggle can be the sad act of suicide. So when we go into it we must thread carefully. We also should surround ourselves with support systems, friends, networks, people we can lean on if it gets too rough and tough. But above all we shouldn't take this life or its pains too seriously.

Now the physicists in their discussion said things like well then don't have kids because you can then choose not to have beings exist in pain. However the mere fact that they phrased their question as such suggests that they believe we even have a choice to exist. Perhaps echoing that famous bard's writing from Hamlet Act 3, Scene 1:

"To be or not to be, that is the question;
Whether 'tis nobler in the mind to suffer
The slings and arrows of outrageous fortune,
Or to take arms against a sea of troubles,
And by opposing, end them. To die, to sleep;
No more; and by a sleep to say we end
The heart-ache and the thousand natural shocks
That flesh is heir to — 'tis a consummation
Devoutly to be wish'd. To die, to sleep;
To sleep, perchance to dream. Ay, there's the rub,
For in that sleep of death what dreams may come,
When we have shuffled off this mortal coil,
Must give us pause. There's the respect
That makes calamity of so long life,
For who would bear the whips and scorns of time,
Th'oppressor's wrong, the proud man's contumely,
The pangs of despised love, the law's delay,
The insolence of office, and the spurns
That patient merit of th'unworthy takes,
When he himself might his quietus make
With a bare bodkin? who would fardels bear,
To grunt and sweat under a weary life,
But that the dread of something after death,
The undiscovered country from whose bourn
No traveller returns, puzzles the will,
And makes us rather bear those ills we have
Than fly to others that we know not of?
Thus conscience does make cowards of us all,
And thus the native hue of resolution
Is sicklied o'er with the pale cast of thought,
And enterprises of great pitch[1] and moment
With this regard their currents turn awry,
And lose the name of action.[2]"

But do we have a choice "To be of not to be" in the first place? I don't think so. Neither do I think we have any control of bringing children into this world or not. Yes there are the bodily functions or nowadays the decisions to use artificial means to have children and it is a conscious decision thing and actions are taken. However if we believe in the existence of a soul no matter what we do on the material plane we cannot make a soul enter, stay or leave a body before its time. So can we really control birth and death, or decide to be or not to be?... to live or die? In the metaphysical sense these things might be seen as choiceless...in the universal dance we are just moving forward...expanding and contracting and we have no choice but to go with the flow as the universe inhales and exhales.

So perhaps then the question becomes irrelevant because we can't really choose to be or not to be... to exist or not exist for we simply just are!

Many pennies and cups of tea for the thoughts of the Intent community on this...