Existencia, situaciones límite y suicidio

Abstract

This article presents a theoretical analysis of human existence in the presence of borderline situations and suicide. Life is exposed as constant nonsense in which the human being faces extreme situations and confronts the absurdity of his existence. The objective of the present work is to establish a philosophical analysis around the sense of the life from existentialism, defining functions that fulfill borderline situations and the suicide in the existence of the human being and contrasting the ultimate aim of existence, all of this from the vitalist and fatalist perspectives. The work was carried out following the heuristic and the hermeneutic method. Human existence is a current issue, especially in situations and experiences that confront human beings and lead them to suicide, it is not such as an act of freedom, but as the product of a pathology. This research's main findings lead us to the following reflection: the fullness of human existence consists of the freedom to live and commit suicide. The human being must feel free because freedom is the ultimate goal of human existence according to existentialist authors.