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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