I believe that Meursault comes to the realization at the end of the novel that everybody dies. He recognizes that there is no way to avoid it, so he comes to peace with the fact that he is going to die. Once he learns that he is to be put to death by the guillotine he wishes that he had a chance to escape the machine, but that isn't possible. He feels like your past really doesn't matter once you die. Meursault believes that the world really has no meaning. Therefore, he doesn't worry about his past because he's going to die eventually and his death happened to be earlier than he anticipated. Meursault lives an absurd life where his emotions are not imminent and he lacks displaying his emotion.
Camus does not want us to follow in Meursault's footsteps. He wants us to recognize that we do have a purpose and should be motivated to live our life to the fullest. He uses Meursault as an example to show the destructiveness of living life with no purpose. Camus provides Meursault's acceptance in the end of the novel to show that we should know death is inevitable for everyone and that we shouldn't worry about it because it's unavoidable. Camus suggests that everyones life is equal and no different from one another.
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