being-in-the-world. understanding the phenomenon of death involves grasping the Being as a whole. If you is understood existentially as a possibility, then it becomes clear that your authentic Being in its totality is ‘Being-towards-death’. Through facing death, you understands what it means to be. . In order to clarify his views on the existential conception of death, distinguishes between two basic forms of Being: authentic and inauthentic Being.