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This thesis is dedicated to exhibit the efforts that people before us have made in trying to understand death. The thesis is divided into four major parts: chapter one offers an overview of Blanchot's engagement with the thematic issue of death throughout his body of works with a focus on his essay entitled 'Literature and the Right to Death'; chapter two sets the framework of the mainstream view on death prior to Blanchot, namely the 'Prometheusian tradition' with the Heideggerian notion of death as Being-towards-death in particular; chapter three is the full examination of Blanchot's notion of Double Death, which is key to his rejection of death as possibility advocated by Heidegger; chapter four is the case study of two poets, Stephan Mallarmé and Rainer Maria Rilke, whose works has played a significant role in Blanchot's thoughts on death.