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Episode #156 ... Emil Cioran part 2 - Failure and Suicide

Philosophize This!

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Why Do You Commit Suicide?

Suicide is an option just like all the other options you have in lifelick, for example. Chiron thought that suicide was both a temporal problem and error and understanding about life. He said only optimists commit suicide, optimists who no longer succeed at being optimists. The others having no reason to live, why would they have any to die?

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