Death in life

Does "which always already implies death in life" in the following extract mean "which does not imply the absolute death, but implies death within the borders of life"?

Extract:

Summing up Freud’s view, Sarah Kofman says that narcissism lulls one into sterile self-contemplation or, in the case of collective narcissism, lulls society into contemplation of its own values: art as ‘reflection’ is conservative [...] Erected to conquer death, art as a ‘double’, like any double, turns itself into an image of death. The game of art is a game of death, which always already implies death in life, as a force of saving and inhibition (Art and Psychoanalysis by Maria Walsh).?