"There Is but One Truly Serious Philosophical Problem, and That Is Suicide."

I feel suicidal and depressed all the time... (By the way, that quote belongs to Le Mythe de Sisyphe). Is it the first line, Swissbob? Is that the way the book begins? O_O

What's the problem? We have Camus, a man who thrives in writing about the 'absurd' and the indifference of the empty universe. Isn't suicide a simple existential choice? What does he have to say about it?

Camus, I believe, saw suicide as the rejection of freedom. We shouldn't flee from the abusrd, but embrace life with passion. Somethin' like that, anyway.

I would argue that Camus contradicts his own philosophy with such a statement. Obviously contradicion is bound to occur in any philosophy, such is the nature of words. However, freedom, of which I associate with free will, includes suicide and as in anything, motives and individual, unique circumstances keep the decision from being thrown in with one broad catagory (Suicide). Say, a person reaches a personal peace of mind. Maybe he/she feels that the world has nothing to offer them anymore. In a state of indifference, he/she throws him/her self off of a bridge. In another situation, a man fills to his emotional brink, in which case he shoots himself in the head. Though these are independently justified, I would argue in another light, just as a person chooses to give a homeless person a dollar (whether it be put towards working away from the streets or alcohol, etc.) The differences apparent still are insignificant. I used these to show the seperate states of two people in seperate situations making seperate existential choices to which they will bear the burden of individually, whatever that entails. If one is reasonable and one is unreasonable, it happened regardless of anyones perspective. Did the first person reject freedom? I say they accepted it and used it. The second person, maybe. What would Camus say?