‘He Who Would Teach Men To Die, Would Teach Them To Live.’

Well, that’s what Montaigne said, perhaps summing up the point of philosophy. But look at how philosophers die: Socrates (ordered to kill himself), Hypatia (flayed by a mob of angry Christians), Francis Bacon (caught a chill while experimenting with refrigeration), Nietzche (syphilis)… and Camus, who thought no death could be more meaningless than one in a car accident. Guess how he died.