Emil Cioran—a Romanian philosopher— is sometimes considered to be the best aphorist since Friedrich Nietzsche. This episode is about Cioran's position on suicide—something he believed one always elects to do too late. His ultimate position is that it is a tragedy for mankind to have come into existence at all, what with all the suffering, pain, and doom that lurks behind every moment in life. This position is oftentimes compared to the anti-natalist position—the belief that it is morally and ethically wrong for human beings to continue producing other human beings.

Though much of his writing consists in bleak rhetoric about life, consciousness, and death, he expresses what many of us have thought at one point or another in our lives. Life is difficult—and sometimes it just doesn't get better. Cioran would suggest that we might as well continue, in spite of life itself.

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