# Schopenhauer, Compassion, Suicide Pact

Schopenhauer argued that morality is based on compassion. Which
means the perception that the innermost essence of the world is
suffering. So one feels suffering of others as one's own.



I was curious about suicide pacts today. Because I read a fictional
work containing a suicide pact. So I searched about them.

I found that if people with suicidal tendencies help each other to
live but fail, they lose last hope. Then they eventually start to
say "Let's die together".

They help each other as they have been doing. But to kill themselves
at this time. This suicide planning makes death more meaningful
and less fearful. Finally they commit a suicide pact.



Of course the two have only family resemblance. Schopenhauer's
solutions were strict asceticism and arts. Rather than encouraging
each other to live.

He argued that we should get rid of the will to live. But not
suicide. Because he believed in reincarnation.

But I find this family resemblance quite interesting.