Nagel's Perspective On Suicide

The second idea that has affected individuals to feel that their lives are meaningless is demise. Some people who think that their lives are meaningless try to think that death is the right way for them to escape from absurdity in their lives. There is no difference either to die sooner or later since in the end individuals will face death. They are aware that death is a complicated situation that can be achieved by certain factors such as aging, disease, and accidents. The only way to die easily is by committing suicide. Suicide is considered as the way to escape from suffering in this mundane world. However, suicide is not the right path to undergo in human life. People are not obligated and suggested to commit suicide just because they are
The absurd is actually a form of contradiction in which any attempt that individuals commit to reconcile this contradiction is an attempt to escape from this absurd. Similarly, Nagel is also against human instant perception about committing suicide as a facility to skip suffering from their lives. Some people try to commit suicide because they think that there is no option that they can choose in order to improve their lives. This situation is mostly caused by social discrepancy in society. Based on Nagel's perspective, suicide instead will make the absurdity come true. As creatures who are equipped by reasons, people should have not only choices, but also hopes. For example, in the The Stranger story, Meursault tries to rise up right after he decides to stop his intention to commit suicide. In The Stranger's story, Camus writes that even a condemned man should be given a chance to improve his life (111). Even if individuals encounter difficult problems in their lives, they should not give up and try to overcome the
Individuals have no idea if they are going to find happiness in their lives or not. Camus believes that both in Meursault and Sisyphus' stories, the absurd heroes unfortunately undergo their lives with a constant struggle, without any clear hope that there will be an improvement. Camus tells that before Meursault is about to face his execution, he is hopeless about running the way he lives (110). Meursault used to think that there is no difference between live and death. Even if he is set to be free, people will treat him badly since they acknowledge him as a murder. Individuals are tempted to question why they were born, have to work, and live in this world. They doubt the meaning of their existences as they do not believe that there is an actor behind their lives that arrange the way they live. This situation happens because the truth that these individuals usually experience is all about bitterness in human life. They feel that it is futile to achieve their goals because they benefit that they will get is only temporary. They also do not believe that striving in their lives will always guarantee that their lives will be better. However, Nagel does not believe that the source of hopelessness in human life comes from nature. Nagel thinks that human's hopeless comes from doubt that individuals usually have in their minds. Nagel's perspective is convincing since individuals