wittgenstein and finitude

For me, Wittgenstein's acheivement in these (and similar) passages is to show that the (solopstic) feeling that "I" must be immortal in order to be "here" at all may very well be just as illusory as it is inescapable. Years ago, these passages helped me overcome my fear of death (and therefore, also, my even greater fear of life, of existing in the first place). Perhaps it's time for me to take these passages to heart once again . . . From the Tractatus:

5.633 Where in the world is a metaphysical subject to be found? You will say that this is exactly like the case of the eye and the visual field. But really you do not see the eye. And nothing in the visual field allows you to infer that it is seen by an eye.

6.431 So too at death the world does not alter, but comes to an end.

6.4311 Death is not an event in life: we do not live to experience death. If we take eternity to mean not infinite temporal duration but timelessness, then eternal life belongs to those who live in the present. Our life has no end in just the way in which our visual field has no limits.