美自殺男子爲哲學獻身 留1905頁遺言

A 35-year-old man, who shot himself near Harvard University a week ago, has left behind a 1905-page suicide note, an online document he had been working on for the last five years.
Mitchell Heisman shot himself at Harvard Yard on September 18. His family and about 400 friends received the 1,905-page suicide note in a posthumous e-mail.
In the note Heisman wrote that he took his life as part of a philosophical exploration he called "an experiment in nihilism." The lengthy document included 1,433 footnotes, a 20-page bibliography, over 1,700 references to God and 200 references to the German philosopher Friedrich Nietzsche.
Heisman wrote, "Every word, every thought and every emotion come back to one core problem: life is meaningless... The experiment in nihilism is to seek out and expose every illusion and every myth, wherever it may lead, no matter what, even if it kills us. If life is truly meaningless and there is no rational basis for choosing among fundamental alternatives, then all choices are equal and there is no fundamental ground for choosing life over death."
Heisman's friends described him as being "cordial, considerate and quiet."

據《印度時報》28日報道，美國一名35歲男子一週前在哈佛大學附近開槍自盡，並留下了一份他寫了5年的長達1905頁的“電子遺書”。
據報道，米切爾-黑斯曼於9月18日在哈佛園自殺，隨後他的家人和大約400個朋友均收到了一封長達1905頁的電子郵件——他的遺書。
他在遺書中寫道，他之所以結束自己的生命，爲的是一項“虛無主義實驗”的哲學研究。遺書包括1433條腳註、20頁參考書目，其中1700條書目與“上帝”有關，200條書目與德國哲學家尼采有關。
他這麼寫道：“每一個詞、每一個思想以及每一種情感都歸於一個核心問題：生命沒有意義......此項虛無主義實驗旨在尋求和披露每一種幻想以及每一個神話，無論實驗走向如何，哪怕它將我們陷於死地。如果生命真得毫無意義，而且在終極選擇中並沒有理性依據，那麼所有的選擇都是一樣的，選擇生而不是死也就失去了根本依據。”

據悉，他的朋友形容米切爾“熱情友好、體貼周到、喜歡安靜”。