Is it better not to be born?

On a basic question

Never to have lived is best, ancient writers say;
Never to have drawn the breath of life, never to have looked into the eye of day;
The second best's a gay goodnight and quickly turn away.

W.B Yeats, ‘Oedipus at Colonnus’, 1934

I sometimes think that thinking is a mistake. Certainly on the matter of reproduction – there I think the best thing is to have ch…