Only the Other’s being, not the for-itself, contains death

Evidence

Thus death is in no way an ontological structure of my being, at least not in so far as my being is for itself; it is the Other who is mortal in his being. There is no place for death in being-for-itself; it can neither wait for death nor realize it nor project itself toward it; death is in no way the foundation of the finitude of the for-itself. — Jean-Paul Sartre, Being and Nothingness, 1272

Categorization

• DEFINE: Frames death as nothing but facticity and being-for-others — a precise ontological location that contradicts common-sense mortality.
• XREF: Connects forward to Beauvoir’s ‘The Ethics of Ambiguity’ on mortality as situated, and to the being-for-others structure from earlier chapters. — connects to: At death a life becomes an in-itself whose meaning only others sustain. — Jean-Paul Sartre, Being and Nothingness: An Essay on…, 63; Death is the final victory of the in-itself over the for-itself — Jean-Paul Sartre, Being and Nothingness: An Essay on…, 496; Only the dead remain permanent objects, never revealing themselves as subjects — Jean-Paul Sartre, Being and Nothingness: An Essay on…, 797 (+10 more)

Broader Connections

• The body is primarily known as the Other’s body, not one’s own #expands (0.90)
• The dead body becomes just another object among the world’s forms #expands (0.82) — Karl Ove Knausgaard, A Death in the Family, 2557
• Only death is an image of undistorted, not-hypostasized life #expands (0.75) — Theodor W. Adorno, Minima Moralia, 88
• The body seen from another’s viewpoint is a thing, not lived #expands (0.75) — Jean-Paul Sartre, Being and Nothingness, 923