Why don't you kill yourself? Albert Camus began his book The Myth of Sisyphus with the startling
assertion “There is but one truly serious philosophical problem and that is suicide.” A French
novelist and philosopher who won the Nobel Prize for literature in 1957, Camus said that judging
whether life is or is not worth living amounts to answering the fundamental question of philosophy. If
life is meaningless, there is no point to pursuing traditional philosophical questions about the nature
of reality, knowledge, and morality