NNAMDI AZIKIWE JOURNAL OF PHILOSOPHY

Absurdity has become a concurrent happening in life. There is no doubt that absurdity has suicide as one of its major outcome and many has these experience irrespective of the societal present dispensation. The fundamental reason why suicide became the common outcome of the absurd that is been faced highly in the society is because, the knowledge of the absurd that ought to be accepted as a universal problem has been accepted by the individual as a relative problem. This work adopted the method of phenomenology for a descriptive human experience. Findings show that, though the absurd cannot be totally overcome in our society it can be greatly managed by the individual in the society through the acceptance of the perception of the absurd as more of a moral universal experience faced by all. Hence, the fact that makes an individual feel he experience the absurd alone in the society thereby leading to suicide is ironical. I therefore recommend that the concept of absurdity should be exposed as a moral universal problem, in order to build a consciousness ahead of the consciousness that do overwhelm individuals to suicidal thought.

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