The moral motivation in a suicide: the self-sacrifice of an italian nurse when contracting the covid-19 in Schopenhauer's ethic

Abstract

This study is object to do an analysis of an italian nurse motivation to commit suicide, after being diagnosed with the new Corona Virus SARS-CoV-2. Ever since this sickness became pandemic, people around the world have been having different reactions in their different societies. As a theoretical-philosophical reference, we shall lean over Schopenhauer’s ethics in order to reflect on Daniela Trezzi suicide. Firstly, we will bring, in general lines, the context and the occurred fact.  In a second moment, we will approach the justifications of the condemning judgement in respects to suicide according to the German philosopher. In this second moment, we will confront the nurse suicide in respect to Schopenhauer philosophy, and ponder over the moral motivations. Would this suicide be motivated not by the afflictions that the disease would bring her, that is, motivated not in reason of personal suffering, but by compassion, in imagining the harm that she would cause others.