 Suicide continued to be an important topic in post-Kantian German philosophy (see Stellino 2020). Like Hume, Arthur Schopenhauer rejected virtually all moral arguments for the moral objectionability of suicide. Surprisingly though, Schopenhauer’s pessimistic philosophical outlook nevertheless led him to condemn suicide. The desire to end our lives, according to Schopenhauer, arises from our will’s unceasing but ultimately futile pursuit of our desires. Hence, rather than denying this striving or extricating us from the fundamental predicament of human existence, suicide ends up affirming this striving and so represents a misguided grasp at freedom. (1819:425–27) Friedrich Nietzsche, in contrast, shared Schopenhauer’s rejection of pious moralizing about suicide and his belief in the striving of the will, but concluded that suicide is at least sometimes rational. For Nietzsche, suicide can be a praiseworthy assertion of one’s will, a way to lend one’s individual life meaning in an otherwise meaningless world. (1883)