The Human Predicament: A Candid Guide to Life's Biggest Questions

Are our lives meaningful, or meaningless? Is our inevitable death a bad thing? Would immortality be an improvement? Would it be better, all things considered, to hasten our deaths by suicide? Many peo…

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