"Any book with the word death in the title is yours" (Annie Hall to Alvy Singer)

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The Hegelian idea of plastic reading confers on the notion of 'to see (what is) coming' its real meaning. 'To see (what is) coming' denotes at once the visibility and invisibility of whatever comes. The future is not the absolutely invisible, a subject of pure transcedence objecting to any anticipation a t all, to any knowledge, to any speech. Nor is the future the absolutely visible, an object clearly and absolutely foreseen. It frustrates any anticipation by its precipitation, its power to surprise. 'To see (what is) coming' thus means to see without seeing - a wait without awaiting - a future which is neither present to the gaze nor hidden from it. Now isn't this situation of 'in-between' par excellence the situation of reeading?
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C. Malabou, The future of Hegel, pg. 184


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What is said here of reading, and of the possibility of reading the living being per se, should we not also say it of death? If we were to ask how to name or categorize the event which a living being always 'sees coming' (letting it come to it as that which in any way will be an absolute surprise and thus be entirely unsubjective), sees coming without everseeing it come, that is to say, without ever being able to see or foresee it, and hence without ever knowing and without ever having any power over it, an event which remains for it the place marked by an absence of all power and as itself impossible, how can we not name that death, as obscure as this event remains or the thing designated as such? The ultimate unity of 'to see (what is) coming' and 'not to see (what is) coming', of the 'to see coming without ever seeing what comes in the act of seeing what comes', the 'seeing without ever seeing', and thus without everywhere and anywhere this word articulates something, whatever it is, to itself, is that not what we ought or should call or name death?
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J. Derrida, The future of Hegel, pg. xxiii