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Camus Two Kinds Of Suicide

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In the first part of Camus' essay we see the declaration that the first philosophical question that one must seriously consider is an existential one. And this is the existential question of whether one should live this life. When affirming that life is indeed worth of living, every other question philosophy can muster follows. Camus suggests that suicide amounts to a confession that life is not worth living, and ultimately it is, and he proceeds to know to what degree suicide acts as a 'solution to the absurd'. He distinguishes two kinds of suicide, one is a physical surrender by taking one's life, a conclusion that life is meaningless, the other a metaphysical one by subscribing to hope by taking a leap into faith [1] . Both kinds of suicide,
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