He understands that even his own body can at any moment turn on him, and having acknowledged this about himself, he also understands that every human around him can or will threaten his life.
Yossarian has difficulty separating how the Germans are out to kill all Americans verse targeting him individually amongst the crowd. It is all the same in his mind; being killed is being killed, either way you do not make it out alive. At one point Yossarian is diagnosed with “morbid aversion to dying”. Major Sanderson asks-“ You probably resent the fact that you’re at war and might get your head blown off any second” to which Yossarian relpies, “I more than resent it, sir. I’m absolutely incensed”(Heller, 303). Hellers makes a point to include this
Yossarian has difficulty separating how the Germans are out to kill all Americans verse targeting him individually amongst the crowd. It is all the same in his mind; being killed is being killed, either way you do not make it out alive. At one point Yossarian is diagnosed with “morbid aversion to dying”. Major Sanderson asks-“ You probably resent the fact that you’re at war and might get your head blown off any second” to which Yossarian relpies, “I more than resent it, sir. I’m absolutely incensed”(Heller, 303). Hellers makes a point to include this