One of the great questions of the logotherapy practice, though it's never put this way for obvious reasons, is when the patient seeks for help and the psychiast

One of the great questions of the logotherapy practice, though it's never put this way for obvious reasons, is when the patient seeks for help and the psychiastrist asks: why don't you kill your self? The whole job of the doctor is to help the patient to find the answer for this question and help him to integrate that answer into his life. And on the people who died in the camps being nihilists, well, the nazis didn't ask people about their ideas before killing them. And I think that some people had the death as their own meaning in life (e.g. the father who put himself in the death's line, in place of his child).