"The Last Messiah" by Peter Wessel Zapffe, trans. Gisle R. Tangenes, in Philosophy Now, Issue 45:"

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“When a human being takes his life in depression, this is a natural death of spiritual causes. The modern barbarity of 'saving' the suicidal is based on a hair-raising misapprehension of the nature of existence.”

“I myself am no longer very much afflicted by the thought of my own death. The synthesis, Peter Wessel Zapffe, did not originate until 1899. It was spared from immediate participation in the horrors of the previous years, and it will not miss what awaits mankind at the end of its vertiginous madness.”

“If one regards life and death as natural processes, the metaphysical dread vanishes, and one obtains "peace of mind.”

“Death is the most certain and the most uncertain event there is.”

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“Death is a terrible provocation. It appears almost everywhere, presenting a stern but effective scale for both values and ethical standards.”

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