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Assuming that the inner liberty exist. Can you give or find meaning to the life in situations of a extreme suffering like in the Nazi concentration camps? It would be better to commit suicide to finish the suffering, or should we fight to stay alive?

Ed Dirac.

Suffering has no basis in reason. You can never reason to commit suicide. Suicidalism is a product of insanity.

The question is not whether you should, but how easily you succumb to despair and helplessness, and how this can twist your mind to insanity.

People who expect life to deliver to them what they want, are easily succumbing to despair when the world turns against them.

Those who expect life to allow them what they want when they figure it out, will find that despair is baseless, and struggle is wanted.

You can never loose anything but your sanity from suffering, and you gain everything for every bit of happiness that you are able to ensure for yourself. So the person of sanity welcomes the challenge of hell and battles it until there's nothing left of the person but ash, in this case perhaps literally speaking.

Ed Dirac wrote:Assuming that the inner liberty exist. Can you give or find meaning to the life in situations of a extreme suffering like in the Nazi concentration camps? It would be better to commit suicide to finish the suffering, or should we fight to stay alive?

There is always hope, some survived and lived to tell the terrible tale.

Never give up, never quit!

Thank you very much to you both, The Voice of Time and HexHammer.

The Voice of Time wrote:You can never loose anything but your sanity from suffering, and you gain everything for every bit of happiness that you are able to ensure for yourself. So the person of sanity welcomes the challenge of hell and battles it until there's nothing left of the person but ash, in this case perhaps literally speaking.

Do you think that everyone is able to withstand this suffering?

No. That's why some succumb.

But that's actually irrelevant. Trying is what matters, because when you have nothing to loose by trying, you have everything to gain by trying.