Being-towards-death, Heidegger says, is to live in anticipation, to live toward possibility.4 It’s the realization that what’s possible is up to me and only me (my “ownmost” possibility, as Heidegger puts it): there is a potential for me to be if only I will realize it, if I will answer the “call.”5 But this call isn’t coming from someone else. It isn’t just another mode of conformity. I’m calling myself.
