(Christian) despair, for the lack of yearning for the transcendence of the infinite. The Being that breaks through finiteness, for Heidegger, is eliminated. Instead, Metzger argues, we should see death as the horizon between the finite and infinite in such a way that ‛the presence of eternity is inherent in every sensory present’. ‛The dying moment endures forever’, sings Metzger, ‛The horizon of permanent duration is associated with the sensory content, i.e., with the reproduction that is linked