Explore how Sartre, de Beauvoir and Camus respond to the question that suicide poses to the living. What, for example, is at stake and what is implied in the desire for self-annihilation. Do they share Socrates’ belief that suicide is never legitimate? How is the problem of suicide related to the ideas of freedom, bad faith, being-with-others, and the factical life of Dasein? In other words, what responses are available to us when life is “drained” of meaning, purpose and value?