A review by amittaizero
Every Cradle is a Grave: Rethinking the Ethics of Birth and Suicide by Sarah Perry

3.0

I knew nothing about Perry going into the book, and her arguments seemed at first to be wide-ranging and disconnected from each other. Connecting the book to her personal history, however, ties it together much more effectively. She settles into a kind of absurdism: we are here, we want meaning but can't have it without making it ourselves -- she deviates here from absurdism by choosing not to make meaning, or be part of a story -- living instead in an "epilogue." Maybe a third way between herself and Camus.

I certainly can't consider myself an antinatalist. It's an unrealistic philosophy that ultimately shrugs its shoulders and lives in impossibility.