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Abstract
“There is but one truly serious philosophical problem, and that is suicide,” notes Albert Camus in The Myth of Sisyphus. While Camus sincerely believes that, “Rarely is suicide committed through reflection,” but what actually triggers the response leading to the act of suicide is still shrouded in considerable mystery, thereby baffling authors, psychologists, sociologists, and philosophers all alike. Since, whatever is unknown or unknowable has always been placed beyond the periphery of the normative, in this case sanity, there is a tendency to associate insanity with the act of suicide, more than that, the act of suicide is used to justify insanity.The paper would, therefore, like to focus on that decisive moment when a person chooses to cross over to the other side, and commit the act of suicide based on ÉdouardLevé’sSuicide, Julian Barnes’s The Sense of an Ending, and Virginia Woolf’s Mrs. Dalloway in order to articulate the eloquent void which follows the act of suicide—if it is indeed an act of insanity, or if it is a result of intense lucidity.