Everyone will die. Meursault's awareness of death contributes to his nonchalant attitude toward every death he witnesses or must suffer in The Stranger. Death fails to upset Meursault. In The Stranger, Albert Camus emphasizes mortality in order to denounce humanity's ignorance in the face of an inevitable or unknown end. Camus' emphasis on time accentuates Meursault's indifference. This indifference reveals that death inevitably occurs, whatever the moment. The first thought the audience reads: “Mom died today. Or maybe yesterday, I don't know. I received a telegram from home: “Mother deceased. Funeral tomorrow. Faithfully yours. It doesn't mean anything. Maybe it was yesterday,” states straight away that the moment Mom died does not affect the fact that she died (Camus 3). This statement foreshadows Meursault's acceptance of his own death sentence, simply because everyone dies at some point. In another case, Meursault values ​​his time. He organizes his mother's funeral on a schedule that minimizes her absences from work. He said to himself: “That way I can be there for the vigil and come back tomorrow evening. I asked my boss for two days off and there was no way he would refuse me with such an excuse” (Camus 3). Meursault focuses on his time away from work rather than the recent death of his mother, illustrating that one cannot regain lost time, but can only spend the present wisely . Camus reinforces this allegation when Meursault recalls: “But according to him, the dog's real disease was old age, and there is no cure for old age” (Camus 45). Once again, lost time is never regained, no matter what we do to compensate. During this conversation between Meursault and Salamano, Meursault right in the middle of the paper greets me with cries of hatred” (Camus 123). Meursault accepts his sentence with only the wish of a crowd at his execution, demonstrating that he would not relive his life to change it, that his life responds to his idea of ​​life and that his life contains everything he desires. This hope reflects the fact that despite everything Meursault wishes for, he will die and his past life cannot be changed. Meursault “escaped” the terror of death by revealing that there is no escape. There is no alternative to death, and the moment death occurs does not negate the fact that it actually occurred. Death shocks humanity beyond reason. Man knows that he will eventually die, but because the moment when death wants for man does not correspond to the moment when man wants death, death with surprise for everyone. Works CitedCamus, Albert. The Stranger. Trans. Matthew Ward. New York: international vintage,1988.