>Cioran is certainly one. For Cioran, who died in 1995, there was something incomparably worse than death — “the catastrophe of birth

If I find anything "incomparably worse than death" is the constant whining of Cioran -- the original inventor of "first world's problems" so to speak, who had critical admiration and a cushy life on top.

I'm all for pessimism and even people contemplating the meaningless of life, nihilism, suicide, etc. But Cioran was such a bore at that...