"One of the things he wanted to start screaming about was the surgeon’s knife that was almost certain to be waiting for him and everyone else who lived long enough to die. He wondered often how he would ever recognize the first chill, flush, twinge, ache, belch, sneeze, stain, lethargy, vocal slip, loss of balance or lapse of memory that would signal the inevitable beginning of the inevitable end" (Heller, 173).
Yossarian faces the war everyday but instead of accepting the fear of death it made him much more aware of the value and fragility of life. He can't stop thinking about all the ways in which he could die. His plane could get shot down or he could die of plenty of diseases. Yossarian is also fixated on the inevitability of death. In the army, Yossarian must feel trapped in his fear, and Catch-22 prevents him from escaping it. Though, his logic is flawed, as death is inevitable and is a greater trap than the army and he can never escape from that.
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