Abstract
In his essay On Death, Tugendhat analyses the meaning of death for human life. He takes Heidegger's and Nagel's conception of death as his departure and presents a criticism of Heidegger's and Nagel's conception.
On the background of this conception, Tugendhat formulates his own understanding of death and develops the main outlines of what he calls the mystic position taken later in his work. A mystic is such a person who loosens the grip of his own self: such a person no longer confronts the world and instead enters the world.
Once one has gained distance from himself and thus partially overcomes the fear of death since death is now considered a shared burden.