Vladimir Jankélévitch was born into a family of Russian Jews who immigrated to France. During the Second World War, he actively participated in the Resistance. Later, he devoted himself passionately to the cause of Israel and the defence of minorities. He creates an original philosophy of the instant, as a radical caesura of revolutionary significance. Time as an instant is an opportunity for cognitive, moral and artistic creation (he was indeed a pianist and a music expert as well). Death is in his thought something that excludes all forms of thinkability, and at the same time is a necessary presupposition for life itself.
I think his background should be taken into consideration.

The original text goes as follows:
"Celui qui ne vit pas, a fortiori ne souffre pas, ne connaît ni la maladie, ni le vieillissement, ni l'angoisse de l'agonie, ni le suprême arrachement".
https://books.google.it/books?id=937IL1ROgVAC&lpg=PA61&ots=S...

arrachement
Action d'arracher, en particulier quelqu'un à quelqu'un ou à quelque chose, de s'arracher à quelqu'un, à quelque chose : L'arrachement d'un enfant à sa mère.
(To tear away, especially from someone or something, to tear oneself away from someone or something: The tearing of a child from its mother).

2. Littéraire. Peine, déchirement causés par une séparation.
Synonymes : déchirement - rupture

https://www.larousse.fr/dictionnaires/francais/arrachement/5...

"Migrations are a tragedy, an “ultimate uprooting” is a catastrophe, a sense of abandonment, tampering and despair." https://lpdc.gov.lb/josourarticles/the-palestinian-eats-his-...


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Note added at 4 days (2022-12-05 20:07:15 GMT)
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As Domini pointed out, 'rupture' is also a valid translation.