Death cannot be waited for because its causal conditions are indefinite and uncountable.

Evidence

What is being said here of reading, and of the possibility of reading the living being per se, should we not also say it of death? If we were to ask how to name or categorize the event which a living being always ‘sees coming’ (letting it come to it as that which in any way will be an absolute surprise and thus be entirely unsubjective), sees coming without ever seeing it come, that is to say, without ever being able to see or foresee it, and hence without ever knowing and without ever having any power over it, an event which remains for it the place marked by an absence of all power and as itself impossible, how can we not name that death … The plasticity of death at the heart of the ‘to see (what is) coming’, is that not also (as the root of habit) a kind of mourning? Or mourning itself? — Catherine Malabou, The Future of Hegel, 91 (#corroborates, via linked claim)

Categorization

• XREF: connects to: Death cannot be an authentic human possibility because it negates all projects; Waiting for an event requires determinate causal processes, which death lacks.; Sudden death cannot be awaited because it is indeterminate in date — Jean-Paul Sartre, Being and Nothingness: An Essay on…, 1251 (+3 more)

Broader Connections

• One’s death can be drawing nearer or receding without any observable change. #expands (0.85)
• Death is the ultimate event that is seen coming without ever being seen #corroborates (0.78) — Catherine Malabou, The Future of Hegel, 91
• A nihilating being cannot be the cause of further phenomena #complicates (0.72)