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“Nature proceeds by blunders; that is its way. It is also ours. So if we have blundered by regarding consciousness as a blunder, why make a fuss over it? Our self-removal from this planet would still be a magnificent move, a feat so luminous it would bedim the sun. What do we have to lose? No evil would attend our departure from this world, and the many evils we have known would go extinct along with us. So why put off what would be the most laudable masterstroke of our existence, and the only one?”
-- Thomas Ligotti, "The Conspiracy Against the Human Race" (2010)
You first, Mr. Ligotti! This can seem like a squicky way to make money: selling people on the idea of killing themselves. But he seems to be a genuine writer, with some real skill and craft in the art. Maybe he is letting his horror fiction bleed into his non-fictional philosophical thought. Still, he can seem as though he is part of the conspiracy he writes of.
I can appreciate the exercise of the suicide option; we can never know where another is at in his struggle and pain. It's just that I suspect suicide is often a tragedy that should have been averted, if only there were the right help and the needed attention.
As much as I can sometimes fancy the idea of suicide, I also cannot help thinking that death will come soon enough, whether one invites it or not. So why not make the most of this weird occurrence and fantastic accident that is our life, while we have it, this wondrous dream born out of nothingness? It will not be very long before we have no choice but to let go of life and fall back into that empty and utterly dreamless nothingness.
-- Thomas Ligotti, "The Conspiracy Against the Human Race" (2010)
You first, Mr. Ligotti! This can seem like a squicky way to make money: selling people on the idea of killing themselves. But he seems to be a genuine writer, with some real skill and craft in the art. Maybe he is letting his horror fiction bleed into his non-fictional philosophical thought. Still, he can seem as though he is part of the conspiracy he writes of.
I can appreciate the exercise of the suicide option; we can never know where another is at in his struggle and pain. It's just that I suspect suicide is often a tragedy that should have been averted, if only there were the right help and the needed attention.
As much as I can sometimes fancy the idea of suicide, I also cannot help thinking that death will come soon enough, whether one invites it or not. So why not make the most of this weird occurrence and fantastic accident that is our life, while we have it, this wondrous dream born out of nothingness? It will not be very long before we have no choice but to let go of life and fall back into that empty and utterly dreamless nothingness.
