Today we discussed Death in Martin Heidegger's Being and Time. I believe Heidegger was talking about accepting the possibility of Death. Death is certain and once one accepts that in his/her life they will be one step closer to the authentic life. Heidegger said it himself, anticipation does not wait for death, rather, it mobilizes mortality. Once one accepts death, they can live life at it's fullest, they have more care toward everything that at point was being taken for granted. The people who accept the possibility of death also separate themselves from the herd, Heidegger mentions that death is personal, and when one dies no one goes with them, no one experiences what the dying experience in that single moment, death is a personal experience that one experiences alone, death separates one's self from everyone else.
"Once one has grasped the finitude of one's existence, it snatches one back from the endless multiplicity of possibilities which offer themselves as closest to one—those of comfortableness, shirking and taking things lightly—and brings Dasein to the simplicity of its fate. This is how we designate Dasein's primordial historizing, which lies in authentic resoluteness and in which Dasein hands itself down to itself, free for death, in a possibility which it has inherited and yet has chosen” (Being and Time 74: 435)
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