another victory over death?

Phenomenologically life - being - is always on the threshold, that is being with (mitsein) death. If Heidegger’s dasein is ontically construed as "a being -for death" then perhaps Van Gogh’s death choice was governed by what Jean Luc Nancy refers to as "the phantasm of metaphysics," already, as he says, "proposed in Christian theology," in which the ego, the subject/ I, pronounces his/her own death (the Cartesian ego sum mortuus), and secures an afterlife - transfiguration (nachleben). Nancy writes: the "I cannot say that it is dead, if the I disappears in effect in it's death, in the death that is precisely what is proper to it and most inalienable it's own, it is because the I is something other than a subject." This is the crux of the phenomenological das/(s)ein, where subject hood meets the hermeneutic challenge(s) of life before an ego (I) can be (ir)rationally constituted. And what if the hermeneutic challenge precipitates questions about the value of (a) life that has been marked by frustration lack - failure - manquéhood? Notwithstanding Antonin Artaud’s prohibition, Van Gogh’s death may be an opportunity to recognise the phantasmatic character of ideology for magisters ludi with suicide as the compensating mechanism to ameliorate failure and transform the end into a redemptive prelude to transfiguration and apotheosis.