To what extent can we say that Life is nihil in this sense? Once the ontological difference between “Life” and “the living” is collapsed, life subtracts from itself any possibility of an affirmation. What remains is a kind of negative theology, or better, a negative theo-zoology, whereby life always displays some relation to the negation of life. Hence the after-life is not about the dichotomy between life and death, but about a more fundamental relation – that between Life and Being.
Again, compare to Frankenstein.
