To consent to death is to bless the unacceptable; the only attitude worthy of a consciousness that loves life is to refuse it.

Supports

Simone de Beauvoir, Camus · A Very Easy Death; The Myth of Sisyphus

Nothing makes death acceptable: it annihilates a unique being, beyond return or repair. , at her dying mother's bedside, refuses the word that consoles: "there is no natural death," every death is an undue violence, even when one knows it is coming and consents to it.
The wisdoms of acceptance, by calling it "nothing," "passage" or "the course of nature," grant it the victory in advance: they soothe the dying by disarming their protest. But to come to terms with what negates us is to betray what is irreplaceable in life.
The response of a lucid consciousness is therefore neither illusion nor resignation, but : with , to keep one's eyes open on the scandal and refuse to be reconciled with it, from the inner refusal that blesses nothing to the concrete fight to push death back.

Therefore So to refuse death is not to deny it: it is the only fidelity possible to the life it threatens, the "no" that gives our "yes" its form.

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Deepenings

Revolt does not aim to win

sets revolt apart from despair as much as from hope: the rebel does not believe he will defeat death, but he refuses to bow before it. "To live is to keep the absurd alive," and to keep it alive "is first of all to look at it."
Its dignity lies there: not in an impossible victory, but in a tension held, a lucidity that yields neither to consolation nor to abdication.

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