factual ques-tions of human nature — what human beings are actually like — but also normative ones concerning the ways in which human lives ought to be led. However, clearly, the good life cannot be understood at all if we fail to pay attention to the "darker' sides of human existence, including our experiences of evil, pain, suffering, guilt, and death. Philosophical anthropology, in short, is seriously incomplete without investigations of death and mortality.¹ As Martin Heidegger famously maintained, our existence is deeply characterized by "being-toward-death', Sein-zum-Tode, which is inseparable from our "being-in-the-world' generally, our in-der-Welt-Sein.²" /> The mortal self - Pihlström Sami | sdvig press