This misses perhaps the most central point to Bataille’s philosophy: One should live not for any purpose- that makes one’s life servile, useful, empty of the glorious vivacity which he MIGHT RATHER live if he took on dying simply for the sake of dying. This latter means expending life away sheerly to expend it, as if the feeling, the very lived experience of such an irrational, “sun-like” life in which one empties out his life force voraciously is the ultimate mode of life (a mode we should all attempt to enter into).