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The contemporary >homo consumens< does not want to accept that his ontic status is still best defined by the words >homo patiens<. Today’s attempts to eliminate suffering through constantly stimulated consumption may be considered as an act of the >degradation< of humans and humanity who by rejecting the truth about their nature as suffering creatures, paradoxically also lose the meaning of their life. If one denies suffering, then – at the same time – one closes oneself before life. For the escape from suffering is anything but the escape from life, at least the one that is experienced in a conscious and sensible way.