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Why Not Suicide?

    It as the reluctant philosopher Albert Camus who said, “There is but one truly serious philosophical problem and that is suicide. Judging whether life is or is not worth living amounts to answering the fundamental question of philosophy.” There was a time when I could not answer this question. After being raised in the church I walked away from the faith during my college years. You could say that the process really began in high school, but that is a story for another day. The best way to describe myself would have been a deistic evolutionist. I was only concerned with knowledge that could be proven in a laboratory. Yet I was not foolish enough to say that the universe came from nothing. There had to have been some sort of cause, and whatever that cause was I considered to be God. Yet I was unwilling to say who or what that God was. For all practical purposes I was an atheist. For years I devoted myself to the study of the natural sciences assuming that if there was a God