Camus termed “philosophical suicide.” Those who figuratively strangle themselves escape the feeling of absurdity by imagining there is something transcendent, something in Plato’s heaven or in the Judeo-Christian hereafter that will make sense of the toil and moil of the fact that we battle for years, struggle to make our daily bread, are lanced with loss, grief, heartbreak, then suddenly, all is over, we are gone.
