The comprehensive totality of external activity — life — is, as against personality, which is itself this same and immediate totality, not something external. The alienation or sacrifice of life is, rather, the opposite of the existence of this personality. I therefore have, in general, no right to such alienation, and only an ethical Idea — one in which this immediately singular personality has in itself gone under, and which is its actual power — has a right to it, so that, at the same time, just as life as such is immediate, so too is death its immediate negativity, and must therefore be received from without, either as a natural occurrence, or, in the service of the Idea, at the hand of another.