...panies it.

The role of mortality in Heidegger's philosophy may be methodologi

cal and catalytic, but the import of mortality to Human Being, whether authentic
or inauthentic is and always has been significant in conjunction with our cultu
ral overlays and traditions. Heidegger's phenomenological view of death as a way
-of-being is significant to us because it provides a workable alternative to the
common dogmatic views of death and it can help to guide us through a profound e
xistence, that is laden with the traps and pitfalls of inauthenticity.