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How is "Death is the possibility of impossibility for Dasein" not a paradox?

For Heidegger death is the possibility of impossibility. Then apparently someone (Mauss?) said that this should be understood as the impossibility of possibility.

I just don't understand this. If something is impossible then surely it's not possible. And vice-versa.

So does this mean there is temporality to the possibility of death? Death is impossible for me *as of now* and it becomes possible at a certain point in time by god knows what way?

Also in regards to Being-Toward-Death... Is there anyone who counter-argued that death is not intuitive and that we learn about death by observing it happening to other people? I don't recall knowing about death until I learned someone died.
gpt
>So does this mean there is temporality to the possibility of death? Death is impossible for me as of now and it becomes possible at a certain point in time by god knows what way?



Possibility, for Heidegger, is always *futural*. Death is the possibility of there being no more possibilities because after death, you have no future (thus nothing is possible).