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자살

까뮈는 시지프의 신화에서 철학적으로 의미가 있는 유일한 질문은 자살이라고 말했다. Il n'y a qu'un probleme philosophique vraiment serieux : c'est le suicide. 삶의 가치가 없다면 계속 사는 것은 무의미한 짓이니까. 영화를 보다가 더 이상 볼 가치가 없다고 생각되면 도중에서 나가버리는 경우가 있다. 물론 엄청나게 재미없는 영화일 경우에. 자살도 비슷한 행위다. 그러나 사람들은 대부분 자살자를 비난한다. 끔직하게 무의미하게 따분한 영화를 끝까지 보아야 한다고 강요하는 격이다. 왜 그럴까. 지겨운 영화를 끝까지 지켜보는 것과 중간에 자리를 박차고 나가버리는 것, 어느 쪽이 더 자신에게 잔인한 행위인가? 삶이라는 영화는 결말이 너무나 뻔한데도 인간들은 좌석에서 일어나지 않는다. 주인공은 반드시 죽고, 다른 등장인물도 다 죽어버리는 진부한 스토리의 재탕인데도....

I hated my life even before all of this happened

When I think about it, it seems I hated my life even before my wife died in May 2012 because of glioblastoma. Glioblastoma is not a name of an alien life-form. It is a horrible brain cancer that kills 80% of the patients within 1 year. I did my best, though I sometime faltered because it was too hard to serve as the only caretaker for my wife, for the three year period from 2009 to 2012, to save my wife. I failed. She died. My life sucked the very moment I found out she had the cancer and it still sucks. Why I hated my life before all this happened? I used to tell my mother in my teens. “If you had asked me if I want to come out to this world before you gave birth to me, I must have said NO.” My mother’s typical response to this ungrateful remark was “You, son of a bitch.” Anyway, the point is I was a pessimist since I was a boy. And my life turned to the direction that made me more and more of pessimist. The only thing that made my life meaningful was my wife. She was a down-