Guest of the morning of Europe 1 Sunday February 14, the philosopher André Comte-Sponville returned to the health crisis and the climate in which society has been plunged for more than a year.

He pleads for a return to normalcy, and assures us that "one should not sacrifice the love of life for the fear of death."

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"This is why it is absolutely necessary to ensure that life can resume as quickly as possible", pleads at the microphone of Europe 1 André Comte-Sponville.

"We must not prevent young people from living to protect the health of their parents or grandparents, which would appear to me to be an injustice," he assures us.

"Do not sacrifice the love of life for the fear of death", sums up the philosopher. 

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"What worries me about this pandemic, in the reactions it elicits, is that I have the feeling that in many people the fear of death tends to trump the love of life. . What I want to say to young people is the opposite, "explains André Comte-Sponville, who quotes an extract from the

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Montaigne: "You don't die because you are sick, you die because you are alive."

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"Death is part of life by definition: we will all die," recalls André Comte-Sponville, but "the vast majority of us will die of something other than Covid-19."

The 68-year-old philosopher concludes his remarks by addressing young people directly: "Don't give up on loving, don't give up on living. Don't let the fear of death get you down!"