This paper posits that termination is always incomplete. Part of the challenge for analyst and patient is to come to terms with the limitations of the analytic project in the context of having established a deeply meaningful relationship. Ideas are addressed surrounding termination involving the tension that exists between the sense of finality that comes with ending and the notion that termination and analysis in general continue on indefinitely even after patient and analyst have stopped meeting. The author explores the anxieties related to mortality and death that crop up around termination, as well as the mutual impact of termination, which often involves the patient's curiosity and attempts to understand the analyst's experience of the analytic relationship. Through an extended vignette, the paper also examines the posttermination life of the analytic dyad and reflects on the patient's and the analyst's respective internal relationships with the analysis once the treatment has ended.