In this paper, the author tries (following G. Agamben, J. Butler, M. Foucault, J.-L. Nancy, and P. Virlio) to reflect on the various forms of trading in life and our “media attention” devoted to disasters. The open goal of the paper is not so much to stimulate the apocalyptic imagination but to rethink our human (in)ability to “learn from disasters”. Are “we” (non-learners) condemned to what K. Marx called the mors immortalis [‘deathless death’] of capital and trading life is our ultimate destiny? Is humanity destined to drift towards final catastrophe, revealing its inability to correct the course of historical progress?