Philosophy Now Forum

Filiz Peach explains what two of the greatest existentialist thinkers thought about death: Martin Heidegger and Karl Jaspers.

https://philosophynow.org/issues/27/Death_Faith_and_Existentialism

I prefer Jaspers. We are not true individuals as much as expression of particular types, expressed both through the conditioning of our cultures and environment, and through our individual roles and dynamics within those cultures and environments.

When we die, the world will lose a particular iteration of that type but there will still be many other people alive who are very much like us in many ways, and such relative repetitions are ever more likely with humanity's ranks continuing to swell.