The Longest Suicide Note

Mitchell Heisman wrote a 1,905 page suicide note before killing himself on Harvard campus in 2010. At least it wasn't a spur of the moment kind of thing. He looked upon his fatal enterprise as “an experiment in nihilism”. He accepted the idea that life is meaningless and followed through on his conviction. The early death of his father is considered to be a definitive event in his life. And he was a good-looking, intelligent fellow, one who arguably had a lot to live for, though it probably didn't help that, at 35 years of age, he apparently did not have anything going for him in the way of a career.

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Is the proposition that life is meaningless a meaningful statement?

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Is this absurd? If this is absurd then it must also be absurd that I rage at the entire cosmos for having no ultimate meaning. But there is no reason to be pessimistic. There is no justification whatsoever for a negative attitude! There is no justification whatsoever for a positive attitude! There is no justification whatsoever for a neutral attitude! Who knows what will happen with certainty? I could be strolling down the street, being beautiful, on my way to kill myself, when suddenly I am run over by a bus. But wait a minute. Why am I doing this? Ah, yes, now I remember the punchline:

I’ll try anything once!

There is nothing to take seriously!

-- Suicide Note

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This is from an old post of mine that I was looking at this morning. I felt like googling for more information and wanted to include a link, and I thought it was worth another go. The quotation came from a Tumblr account that no longer exists.

[ Source: Boston.com]