Chapter 8 Prophets and Death in Dreams

The Prophet told him that March 30th would be the day when the battle would end; but on this day, there was no sign of the end of the battle, and he died. Logotherapist Frank is a Jew. During the Second World War, he was imprisoned in a Nazi concentration camp with some suffering compatriots. In early March 1945, a brother in the camp told him with great hope that on February 2 he had a dream in which a voice claiming to be a prophet said to him: You can ask any question .So he asked hopefully: When will the war end?The prophet in the dream told him: It was March 30, 1945. This hope became the only support for the man as he suffered through the misery of the concentration camp.The day was getting closer, and without any sign of the war being over, he was beginning to despair.

On March 29th, Frank's brother started to have a high fever, and then fell into a coma; on the 30th, he completely lost consciousness, and on the 31st he died of typhoid fever.For him, March 30th was supposed to be the day the war ended, but his expectations were dashed, and with it his will to live disappeared. Frank believes that the life in the concentration camp is a temporary state of existence without end, in which people, facing the irreversible future, are like a lonely point without support, and many people attach their will or hope to survive to some Symbolically.But when this symbol disappeared, his will to live also collapsed.

Frank's brother, because of his disappointment with reality, reduced his internal resistance and immunity, so the typhoid bacteria in his body quickly lashed out, taking away his life that no longer had the will to live. Survival requires will, and will needs to have its direction and its return, especially in pain, people cannot live without something.But when it comes to fueling our will, we need rational desires, not supernatural revelation. The Second World War ended a few months after the death of this brother Frank, who may be said to have died of typhoid, but also of his own false hopes.