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This 3-page paper, examining Frank's work "Man's Search for Meaning" discusses the implication that concentration camp victims did have free will, or choice. Bibliography lists 1 source.
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or free will, in their experiences. This may seem like a wrong statement at first -- the fact that prisoners of Auschwitz, stripped of everything, from their belongings, to their
dignities, would have any type of free choice about anything except what their captors ordered them. But Frankl points out in one area, specifically (and refers to this again and
again), that the prisoners had a choice -- whether to live or to die. "The thought of suicide was entertained by nearly everyone if only for a brief time," he
writes on page 36. "It was born of the hopelessness of the situation, the constant danger of death looming over us daily and hourly, and the closeness of the
deaths suffered by many of the others." Frankl notes that it was his "decision" almost from the start, that he wouldnt "run into the wire" (this was a popular way
of committing suicide -- touching the barbed wire of the camp, which was electrically charged). But he also points out, interestingly enough, that the choice to commit suicide is
an ironic one; as life expectancies for the concentration camp inmates were slim to none. The choice to survive brought some other choices, some of which might seem repellent or
even immoral to those of us who have never experienced the horrors of the concentration camp. A few pages later, Frankl tells about how he spent some time in a
hut for patients with typhoid, many of whom were very ill. He speaks, in graphic detail, about a patient who died, and how he himself "watched without any emotional upset"
when other prisoners, who were still quite alive, began divesting the corpse of its properties. One inmate, he said, took food, another decided that the shoes would be salvageable, as
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