ABSTRACT
Death is not the noema of a noesis. It is not the object or meaningful fulfilment of an intentional act. Death, or rather, dying, is by definition ungraspable; it is that which exceeds intentionality and the noeticonoematic correlative structures of phenomenology. There can thus be no phenomenology of dying, because it is a state of affairs about which one could neither have an adequate intention nor find intuitive fulfilment. The ultimate meaning of human finitude is that we cannot find meaningful fulfilment for the finite. In this sense, dying is meaningless and, consequently, the work of mourning is infinite (which is to say that mourning is not a Work).
