Heidegger said "Sein zum Tode", or one's awareness of & readiness for this event, is the key to authentic being
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Being-towards-Death ..... 65 ..... one may say that a phenomenology of death 
would mean: "to .... awareness of its death as an end, but, writes Heidegger, 
Dasein.