Heidegger, writing human kind’s relation toward death and our future possibilities, states:
In anticipation of this possibility it becomes ‘greater and greater’; that is to say, the possibility reveals itself to be such that it knows no measure at all, no more no less, but signifies the possibility of the measureless impossibility of existence. In accordance with its essence, this possibility offers no support for becoming intent on something, ‘picturing’ to oneself the actuality which is possible, and so forgetting its possibility. Being-towards-death, an anticipation of possibility, is what first makes this possibility possible, and sets free as possibility. (Heidegger, 307. Sein und Zeit, 262)
Source
Heidegger, Martin. Being and Time. Trans. John Macquarrie and Edward Robinson. London: SCM Press Ltd., 1962)
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