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Everything you do is done with the intention to maximize your experienced pleasure during your lifetime, while minimizing the probability of death.

Because of this, everyone is fundamentally a hedonist, even the stoic and the ascetic deprive themselves of pleasure because they feel like they will be rewarded with greater pleasure in the future. Similarly, a Christian may deny himself the world, but only because he is promised eternal joy and life in heaven if he does so.

What of suicide? Well, in this case, you are basically conceding that the possibility of future pleasure is nil, so the most pleasurable thing to do would be to end you suffering, this is the only time the pursuit of pleasure outweighs the desire to minimize the possibility of death. So even suicide is hedonistic to an extent.
If everything is hedonistic, then all actions are morally equivalent.

tl;dr everything you do is hedonistic, even suicide and (temporary) denial of pleasure.

Everything you do is done with the intention to maximize your experienced pleasure during your lifetime, while minimizing the probability of death.

Because of this, everyone is fundamentally a hedonist, even the stoic and the ascetic deprive themselves of pleasure because they feel like they will be rewarded with greater pleasure in the future. Similarly, a Christian may deny himself the world, but only because he is promised eternal joy and life in heaven if he does so.

What of suicide? Well, in this case, you are basically conceding that the possibility of future pleasure is nil, so the most pleasurable thing to do would be to end you suffering, this is the only time the pursuit of pleasure outweighs the desire to minimize the possibility of death. So even suicide is hedonistic to an extent.
If everything is hedonistic, then all actions are morally equivalent.

tl;dr everything you do is hedonistic, even suicide and (temporary) denial of pleasure.