Meursault Accepting Death Essay

Meursault seems to think that he has figured out everything there is to understand about death. Perhaps this make us the strangers rather than him, when understanding life and death. We see his emotional detachment because of his understanding of life and death as inhuman and unusual, but this is perhaps the truth to Meursault’s argument. We only perceive his emotional detachment as inhuman. Now I find that Monsieur Meursault’s argument removes the importance of life. To Meursault the priest is, “He wasn’t even sure he was alive, because he was living like a dead man” (Camus pg. 120). The priest does not focus on the death that a person has reached but he focuses on their life and the loss of the person on our lives. But does their life truly matter? Death is inevitable. It is a biological entity that is in all people, there is no way around it. There is no stopping it. The only importance that we have is the relationship that we have with others, not the life we had with them. A person that has a greater attachment to a person is more important in their life because you have had a greater relationship with them. But, in the end, the relationship does not matter. Death is the only thing that is constant. We are going to die to accept it we can better understand ourselves.

We are to live without the feeling of sadness and heartache. To mourn for the dead, we mourn for ourselves. When someone dies, there is nothing to be sorry for because there is nothing besides the living. The death that is inevitable is simply that, death. There is no purpose, there is no reason. To die is just to die. Though this seems harsh, I am now being to understand this. Though it would be nice to think that we are mourning for them, we are mourning for their relationship that they had with us. But to die is simply to