In other words, the meaning of death is meaninglessness, the most universal and emptiest of concepts, which Heidegger had ontically determined beforehand. The same “remarkable relatedness backwards and forwards,” the dialectical tension created by forcing apart Dasein’s simulataneously ontical and ontological characters, deprives ontical facticity (and pre-ontological experience) of any meaning in view of the existential-ontological analysis of Dasein’s Being-towards-death. If Heidegger had carefully followed his theoretical definition of the simultaneously ontical and ontological characteristics of Dasein, his own Dasein, he should have concluded that Dasein, he himself, was already dead.

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