system
Given the following post, respond as if you're commenting on Reddit:
human
What are Schopenhauer's views on suicide? Did he support and justify the idea given his views on reality?
gpt
He was opposed. He thought that 1.) suicide was an optimist's view-point, since it was based on the expectation of something better that ought to have happened to one having happened, and more substantially 2.) since representation was just a manifestation of will mediated by the intuitions and causality, any attempt to escape it on a representational level as opposed to attempting to quieten the will itself was still caught in the veil of representation.