Death, or Escape BY Riddhima Sen

Albert Camus’s ‘The Myth of Sisyphus’ talks about a sensitive topic. It deals with suicide. Suicide refers to the act of killing oneself. On one hand, while it talks about a person having the agency over their own life, it also shows how we end up harming ourselves because of the world around us. What matters more- myself, or the other? Is the world I’m residing in more important than my own existence? Or, should the priority be given to the self? Who comes first becomes a crucial question here. The distinction between the self and the other is an important element.
The self does not judge you, but the other does. The agency over one’s own life becomes a faded concept when we start to lose interest in things which once made a lot of sense. Why do we stop loving doing things which were once our very own lifeline, when does the line between freedom of expression and desire get blurred? Through the act of the person ending their own life, they choose what happens to them ultimately. Our final outcome is either in our own hands or the hands of the world. Is Death an ending, or the beginning of a new journey?