Suicide cannot escape absurdity because it too awaits a future meaning it denies itself

Evidence

Suicide can not be considered as an end of life for which I should be the unique foundation. Since it is an act of my life, indeed, it itself requires a meaning which only the future can give to it; but as it is the last act of my life, it is denied this future. Thus it remains totally undetermined. … Suicide is an absurdity which causes my life to be submerged in the absurd. — Jean-Paul Sartre, Being and Nothingness, 1257

Categorization

• XREF: Connects to the ethics section later and to Beauvoir’s The Ethics of Ambiguity on mortality and project. — connects to: Death cannot be an authentic human possibility because it negates all projects; No act of flight, even suicide, escapes the burden of choice — Jean-Paul Sartre, Being and Nothingness: An Essay on…, 1292; Sudden death cannot be awaited because it is indeterminate in date — Jean-Paul Sartre, Being and Nothingness: An Essay on…, 1251 (+8 more)

Broader Connections

• The For-itself can only found itself by projecting toward a future it never reaches #expands (0.85) — Jean-Paul Sartre, Being and Nothingness, 453
• Anguish is consciousness of being one’s own future in the mode of not-being #expands (0.82) — Jean-Paul Sartre, Being and Nothingness, 239
• The For-itself constitutes its Future by perpetually apprehending itself as unachieved #expands (0.80)
• The self I am depends on a future self it cannot determine #expands (0.80) — Jean-Paul Sartre, Being and Nothingness, 239
• Waiting for universal peace to justify one’s existence is a permanent deferral #qualifies (0.75)
• Authentic existence requires accepting that we will die #qualifies (0.75) — Sarah Bakewell, At the Existentialist Café, 292