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What are some other lit deaths that were not the actions of sorrow or depression?

Yukio Mishima

All I want is a cause to dedicate my life to. But what? What books will help me?

>>15318770
はい

Learn it for him.

Why is death so avoided in modern times? I think that death is a requirement for a beautiful end. With no death there is no meaning of true beauty and glory. What is use is there for a machine to keep running on for itself only?

Mishima's approach was more realistic. He romanticized old Japan and wars but knew himself that he was a dying breed and that you can't turn back the wheel of time. What would even be the point? So humans can live another couple hundreds of years before once again inevitably becoming more advanced? You can delay the inevitable but not forever

>>13900604
People tend to make fun of Mishima, likening him to a lunatic who failed, but hear this: His life's calling was infinitely better than some 9-5 wageslave schmuck, or a NEET rotting in his mom's basement. The weakness of modern society raised a question, and he answered it with his life.
I admire him with my whole heart.