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It is not at all clear to me that Camus’s argument is sufficient to establish the illegitimacy of suicide and the idea of absurd creation can in no way justify any prohibition of self-killing. Indeed, I have always sensed a tension in Camus between the refusal of hope that is the premise of absurdity, and the hope that informs and infuses his idea of absurd creation. Camus risks giving us back in some new form what he had initially taken away. If suicide is not a legitimate response to the absurd, then absurd creation cannot be a definitive answer to Camus’s opening question: is or is not life worth living?

Passagem de Notes on Suicide, de Simon Critchley.