November 1913-4 January 1960) was a French Nobel Prize winning author, journalist, and philosopher. His views contributed to the rise of the philosophy known as absurdism. He wrote in this essay “The Rebel” that his whole life was devoted to opposing the philosophy of nihilism while still delving deeply into individual freedom.
Camus did not consider himself to be an existentialist despite usually being classified as one, even during his own lifetime. In a interview in 1945, Camus rejected an ideological associations: “No, I am not an existentialist. Sartre and I are always surprised to see our names linked…”
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During an academic career spanning five decades, Larue became a widely cited expert on topics including Satanism, visions of Mary, and death and dying. He wrote or co-wrote a dozen books, including the provocatively titled “Sex and the Bible” (1983) and “Playing God: Fifty Religions/Views on Your Right to Die.” (1996).
In 1908 he became founding president of the Hemlock Society conceived by “Final Exit” author and right-to-die movement pioneer Derek Humphry to provide information to the terminally ill and legalize physician-assisted suicide.
“He stepped up to the plate when others were afraid,” Humphry said. “He presided over Hemlock with great diplomacy when it was highly sensitive and controversial–when American was just beginning to address the subject of the hot-button topic of the right to choose to die when at life’s end.”
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