The book Near Death: Clinical Psychoanalytical Studies is exhaustive in more than one sense. No theme relating to death is left unexamined in it. The bibliography, also exhaustive, is nevertheless essential and is used purely to lay the foundations for the author's ideas. Despite this, it is not an erudite book and does not have an academic structure. The first part, ‘One Will Die’, in essence draws on the work of Heidegger (the book Being and Time and the concept of being-there fallen into the uniformity of the ‘one’, of ‘they’). The one who will die is not in fact oneself for the road to confronting one's own death contains a detour - the death of the other that, in turn, refers to one's own. Following Heidegger, no one can die in another's place: death, in every case, is one's own.