To accept death is to affirm life.
To complete an honorable life is to attain eternal life.
Are there any good arguments against suicide?
>Are there any good arguments against suicide?
yes there are
because DO YOU KNOW WHAT'S THERE, WAITING BEYOND THAT BEACH?
I have accepted death and would welcome it with open arms. But not suicide
Someone gave you life, it's not yours to trash it.
Then you must live as though you would die at any second, because in truth, that is what can happen. Only those willing to die, are truly alive.
True suffering only underscores the value of life, user. I know it serves little point saying to someone who is suffering that it's not really that big of a deal, but really look at what hurts you, and then look at what hurts some poor illiterate asshole living on an actual pile of trash in some third world country.
Also, qua and your reply , you should reread Camus. Your suffering is also meaningless to the uncaring universe, and nothing but your habits stops you from deciding that it is also meaningless to yourself.
This is only relevant if your terminal goal is something other than enjoying life. Since most people are socialized toward hedonism you're speaking to a tendency he probably does not have.
Ah, yes, the Marguerite Duras argument.
Abandon the fallacy of ultimate goals. It's as empty of meaning as the search for meaning itself is. Do not seek goals, seek occupation.
Then is being occupied with suffering equally valuable to being occupied with pleasure?