Camus On Suicide

“Write something, even if it’s just a suicide note,” said Gore Vidal. Suicide may never be the right solution, but it is always an individual right. An individual controls what their body endures, but most people that attempt or commit suicide have mental illnesses that cause them to think a little bit differently than someone else. Some medicines are out there to attempt to balance neurological chemicals to allow suicidal thoughts to go away.

Suicide is, according to Sartre, “an opportunity to stake out our understanding of our essence as individuals in a godless world” (Stanford, 2004). Fundamentally, existentialism argues all individuals are free and therefore responsible for their actions. Thus, it is up to the individual to create an ethos of personal ideology, which is the only way one is able to rise above the human condition of suffering, death and finality (Guigon, 2001). Suicide is seen as the individual’s act of giving in to the absurdity of human life. In other words, when a human is unable to create meaning out of the absurdity that surrounds him or herself, her or she live the typical life of pain, suffering, death and thus make suicide a natural act of existence

Suicide is defined as taking one’s life for the sake of oneself. Killing oneself, does not necessarily mean suicide because suicide is inherently selfish and completely focused on the individual. The reason for killing oneself changes whether it is suicide or not. Suicide has a very negative

When a person decides to commit suicide, it is at times seen to be very selfish and cowardly. It is considered the easy way out. Whether it is running from punishment, leaving loved ones behind, or tearing a family apart, suicide is not the answer.

As one may expect, suicide is a huge problem in this country. Many people are trainied to be sucide bombers. However, there are those that commit suicide for other reasons such as not being able to take their way of living anymore, some women take their own lives due to not being able to handle being married to abusive drug addicted husbands. Men take their own lives simply due to not wanting to go on anymore.

There has been about 4,400 deaths a year do to suicide. Suicide can be caused by many things. A person can be pushed to suicide, if they are bullied and/or deeply depressed.

American Foundation for Suicide Prevention. (2016). A model school policy on suicide prevention: Model language, commentary, and resources. Retrieved from:

At the end of the day many people commit suicide because they feel empty and cannot move

Expert Frank Bruni created a believable article stressing the idea that teens overstress over anything that regards to school, whether it be their grades, stride to follow in the expectations of others and themselves, being active, staying in sports, or attending every club a school may offer. I believe in this article due to its use of statistical evidence from other schools and colleges as well as Bruni’s personal experience. The article does have one major hitch that holds it back from becoming credible to most. This hitch is the lack of statistical evidence from a variety of other schools and backgrounds.

Durkheim argues that the suicide rate is a social factor that can be interpreted as an indicator for social solidarity within a society (http://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/BF01114474).

Suicide is is the act of intentionally causing one's own death. Risk factors include mental illness such as depression, bipolar disorder, schizophrenia, personality disorders, alcoholism, or drug abuse. People choose suicide when they are hopeless or when they think there isn’t anyone that cares for them anymore. They can also choose this if they think there isn’t an end to their suffering or to their problem. Most of the time this happens because of depression and in some cases bullying, it can also happen because of alcohol or because of a major stressful event that has happened. Suicide can really happen anywhere and at any time.Suicide is a problem that exists because the numbers of suicide keep going up and won’t come down.

Suicide is something that has been a plague on society for some time now, and a tragic plague at that. To the normal man or woman, suicide is a horrific act. However, to many men and women thinking irrationally, suicide is simply an easy way out. In this sense, suicide turns from a terrible act from the outside view, into an actual pain reliever to the suicide committer himself. Technically, one could argue that suicide is actually doing some good to the person who ends their life. James Boone, in his article in the Los Angeles Times, outlined the top three reasons that a conference at the Irvine Hilton came up with on why teen suicide occurs. The first was “Youths with low self-esteem,” the second was “Youths who are depressed,” and the third

It is hard for everyone to manage a pain when there is a problem in life, especially for young people. It is human nature to face hardships or difficulties in life, and adolescents and adults tend to solve issues differently because of life experiences. A lot of young people commit suicide when they are depressed. They do not feel that there is a way out of problems or whatever they face in life.

Judging whether life is or is not worth living amounts to answering the fundamental question of philosophy. "(The Myth of Sisyphus). This is a philosophical statement to some others as with Camus see this a true and evident problem. So many will turn this into a argument for which no side could win. The argument cannot be won by many because they simply will not take their own selves out of the equation. One of the top reasons a person is said to want to die is that the individual has a philosophical desire to die. This desire can be broke down into different patterns or traits the person holds deep inside themselves, also there could be outside factors influencing this. Doctor Alex Lickerman of the University of Chicago states, "These people aren’t depressed, psychotic, maudlin, or crying out for help. They’re trying to take control of their destiny and alleviate their own suffering, which usually can only be done in death."( reasons why people comment suicide). These people are not clinically depressed, they are making the choice to take control of their own destiny. Taking control of one's own destiny or life is not something that is looked down upon in the normal everyday society. In today's world it is extremely important that people be themselves and with so many sub-cultures for the people of this world to fall into people do not want to conform to everyday society. Suicide is considered wrong to some

A few suicides are the aftereffect of indiscreet choices in light of a circumstance that appears to be miserable such as loss of a vocation, separate, or a separation with one 's better half or beau. (May, Schultze Par. 2) These reasons for suicide are not the genuine causes of the suicide. Maybe they are triggers for suicide in a person experiencing an emotional instability. Suicide endeavors activated by real frustrations, for example sentimental dismissal, issues with companions, or coming up short a major exam, are normal among discouraged young people, who have not had the educational experience to understand that these wounds mend with time. (Par. 2)