Part 23

Suicide may also be looked upon as an experiment, as a question which man puts to Nature and compels her to answer. It asks, what change a man's existence and knowledge of things experience through death? It is an awkward experiment to make; for it destroys the very consciousness that awaits the answer.

FOOTNOTES:

Translated by St. Julien, 1834.

See my treatise on the Foundation of Morals, § 5.

Bd. I. p. 69.