Suicide In Camus The Myth Of Sisyphus

In The Myth of Sisyphus, Camus is talking about how suicide is the most serious philosophical problem. The question of whether living is worth it should be the most fundamental question to philosophy. Suicide is usually committed due to personal troubles, like Camus’ example of the office manager whose daughter had died. According to Camus, “killing yourself amounts to confessing.” A person who commits suicide has accepted that they couldn’t handle life or it’s not worth living. Many philosophers see the question of suicide as a simple yes or no question or they don’t take it serious like Schopenhauer. Camus claims that suicide is the result of life being worthless, whereas absurdity is connected with life being meaningless. Absurdity seems to have two escapes, hope or suicide.

For the father, he’s purpose in life was possibly his daughter, and without her he didn’t see a reason to live. Therefore I agree with Camus. People continue to live a meaningless life, because they have hope for improvement in the future. Whereas people who don’t aim or see something to live for have accepted that there’s no point in life and the easy route is to end it. I see suicide as accepting defeat, life is meant to have difficulties and struggles. I always see life as a test, sometimes you get easy questions and feel good about the rest of the test, but then you reach a difficult question and simply want to stop and give up on the test. With those questions what I suggest to look back at other questions and use them to help. Camus example of Sisyphus is a great example, in which Sisyphus found some sort of joy or positivity in his troubled and difficult life. Happiness plays an important role in everyone’s life. Without happiness again people would find life worthless. Therefore, I agree with Camus suicide is caused for the most part because people thing life is