Birth and death: the paradigm shift proposed by Emil Cioran

We do not run towards death, we flee the catastrophe of birth, we toil, survivors who try to forget it. The fear of death is only the projection into the future of a fear that goes back to our first moment. It is repugnant, of course, to consider birth a scourge: was it not inculcated to us that it was the supreme good, that the worst was at the end and not at the beginning of our…