PAA: Completely coincidentally, I actually read Halakhic Man over Sukkos and found the relevant paragraph. By the time I got there I was already so drowning in that sea of vocabulary-bee words that I barely noticed :).
And the book was translated from R Soloveitchik’s Hebrew by a third party. I want to read it in Hebrew as well just to see how the translation compares to it.
And I appreciated a lot of his points, but this particular one I didn’t really get so much. But I do see where he was coming from.
(There is definitely a distaste for death in that book in general- especially toward the beginning- maybe the two ideas are linked….)