This article of reflection, takes up the theme of life and death on the lips of Schopenhauer, or rather, reminds the reader how he took that issue, that is, as a rebel, a misunderstood for whom these issues received and passed unnoticed while, but with the depth of who has lived and drank from the fountains of wisdom to retake it, and not just with the seal of the West but also the East. This is the richness of the author, and is also what we want to relate and highlight against the pair of opposites philosophical categories that are shown in the title of this reflection: the existence and rattle