On Suicide: Was Camus Right?

“We must imagine Sisyphus happy”

The question of whether or not we should kill ourselves when faced with the perceived meaninglessness of our existence is the central question of “The Myth of Sisyphus” (1942). Written by the French Algerian journalist Albert Camus, the essay concludes that suicide is an inadequate solution to our existential dilemma and that, instead, we should rebel through a lucid embrace of our perceived futile condition. This argument is established…