Learning to live ought to mean learning to die - to acknowledge, to accept, an absolute mortality - without positive outcome,or resurrection, or redemption, for oneself or for anyone else. That has been the old philosophical injunction since Plato: to be a philosopher is to learn how to die.

Jacques Derrida (1930 CE-2004 CE), Jacques Derrida was an Algerian-born French philosopher best known for developing a parody of semiotic analysis known as deconstruction, which he discussed in numerous texts, and developed in the context of phenomenology.