At those moments, says Martin Heidegger , the most influential of the German existentialist philosophers, the whole of my being seems to drift away into nothing. The unaware person tries to live as if death is not actual, he tries to escape its reality. But Heidegger says that my death is my most authentic, significant moment, my personal potentiality, which I alone must suffer. But here the French existentialist Jean-Paul Sartre begs to differ. Death is my total nonexistence.
Death is only another witness to the absurdity of human existence.