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RE: There Is Nothing Wrong With Suicide

in #suicide7 years ago

Albert Camus's The Myth of Sisyphus - "There is but one truly serious philosophical problem, and that is suicide. Judging whether life is or is not worth living amounts to answering the fundamental question of philosophy." Please continue reading here. This is the most influential and powerful book I've ever read. Can't speak highly enough of it.

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The link you have provided doesn't allow one to read the actual essay in question, it is the last chapter in the book.
and at least for me pages 65 to 213 aren't available in that view.

And, more importantly, don't forget that that quote, which I carried around with me for many years, just like that, is taken out of context, once you read the chapter in question, which I only did earlier this year for the first time.

I feel very different now about sharing it so glibly as I used too, now I am aware of said context.
The chapter is copied onto a post on my wordpress blog.

And you can't read it on google books, as I stated above.

If the owner of this blog @kyriacos asks me to, I will link that reprint of the essay in question.

I have not read all of the preceding chapters either, but I was specifically looking for that one, and was able to get hold of the text for that essay alone.

Have you seen how much Camus's books cost? Insane

well, I said just like that, but I actually had it in my head as

"The only serious philosophical question for an aware young man, is whether to commit suicide"

I have made a couple of artworks about it