Death removes all meaning from life because it suppresses the project that awaited judgment

Evidence

Since death does not appear on the foundation of our freedom, it can only remove all meaning from life. If I am a waiting for waitings for waiting and if suddenly the object of my final waiting and the one who awaits it are suppressed, the waiting takes on retrospectively the character of absurdity. … Thus death is never that which gives life its meanings; it is, on the contrary, that which on principle removes all meaning from life. If we must die, then our life has no meaning because its problems receive no solution and because the very meaning of the problems remains undetermined. — Jean-Paul Sartre, Being and Nothingness, 1256

Categorization

• XREF: Directly inverts Heidegger’s being-toward-death as the source of authentic meaning; also lays the groundwork for Beauvoir’s ethics where mortality is what life must nonetheless be lived against. — connects to: Death cannot be an authentic human possibility because it negates all projects; Death converts the for-itself into an in-itself that only others can interpret — Jean-Paul Sartre, Being and Nothingness: An Essay on…, 1259; The meaning death confers on a life stays suspended, awaiting history’s own meaning (+1 more)

Broader Connections

• Death converts the for-itself into an in-itself that only others can interpret #expands (0.80) — Jean-Paul Sartre, Being and Nothingness, 1259
• The meaning death confers on a life stays suspended, awaiting history’s own meaning #complicates (0.75)
• Unfettered reason leaves all knowledge merely provisional until further notice #qualifies (0.72) — Anthony Giddens, The Consequences of Modernity, 123