The following day his friends and family received a posthumous email from Heisman containing his 1,905 page suicide letter. At the end of his note, a dense, scholarly work with 1,433 footnotes, a 20-page bibliography, and more than 1,700 references to God and 200 references to the German philosopher Friedrich Nietzsche, Heisman finished out with explaining that what he did was an experiment in nihilism.
He said life was meaningless, and that was the problem with it and that his experiment was to seek out and expose every illusion and myth wherever it might lead. Over the years, Heisman had become obsessed with his work, pouring into it over 12 hours per day.
He became increasingly convinced of the meaninglessness of life and those closest to him were still stunned that he had taken his own life. As for Nihilism, it's a doctrine that holds that the idea of life, r the world has no meaning or purpose.
