A man’s dying is more the survivors’ affair than his own.

The remark frames death less as an experience belonging to the person who dies—whose consciousness ends—than as an event that primarily burdens those left behind. It shifts attention from the metaphysical question of what death “is” for the dying to the social and emotional consequences for survivors: grief, memory, practical disruption, and the need to re-narrate a life now closed. In this sense, the quote underscores how identity and meaning persist in others’ recollections and responsibilities. It also carries an austere, almost clinical realism: the dying person’s “affair” ends, while the survivors must continue living with the fact of the death.