The Absurdity of Life and Suicide

This article is up to raise a claim different from the common attitude toward the relationship between the absurdity of life and suicide. In a common attitude, one believes that “one commits suicide if and only if his life becomes absurd”. This can be objected in two ways: a priori and posterior. In the first path, in order to analyze this proposition, we should obtain a proper notion about the concepts of “absurdity of life” and “suicide”. After this clarification, we can reflect on the relation between these two concepts. In the second path, we should find two kinds of cases: (1) mentioning suicides that are committed by ones with meaningful lives, (2) considering some absurd lives which didn’t end up committing suicide. Thus, rejecting the aforementioned proposition a priori and posterior, we can mention new relations between the absurdity of life and suicide. The aim of this article is first scrutinizing accounts around death, and second justifying lives worth living different from common attitudes around the meaningfulness of lives. In this article, we will only evaluate this contradiction by referring to western-christen thinkers and we will show that unlike the common attitudes, suicide is not necessarily based on deep thoughts about life.