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Zarathustra teaches that a person should die at the right time—ideally, when they wish to die. This is only possible when a person is mature enough to understand life and is able to leave behind heirs who likewise “love the earth” (that is, embrace life fully).
Zarathustra argues that Jesus (“that Hebrew”) died too soon, leading others astray in so doing. The “preachers of slow death” are those who misunderstand the value of both life and death and therefore embrace neither. Because Jesus’s religion was “melancholy”—the opposite of Nietzsche’s encouragement of a whole-hearted embrace of life—he never fully understood life…