Wednesday, June 23, 2004

Why Not Die Now?

Albert Camus said that the first question we should ask is why we should not commit suicide. I think the first question we should ask is why we need to ask anything at all. The answer is because we are ignorant or deluded about the nature of life and death. So we should seek answers about life and death - and not just ask "Why don't we die now?" That is just too abrupt, though existentially, I can see where Camus was coming from. He was questioning the worth of life and living. But should we not question too, the worth of death and dying? In Buddhism, life and death is like dawn and dusk, cyclic in nature. So there's no need to be hung up on either life or death alone - they are two halves of a whole puzzle.

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