Making Death Not Quite as Bad for the One Who Dies
- Faculty Name
- Kirsten Egerstrom
- Short Description
- One popular rival to Epicureanism is deprivationism, which maintains that a person’s death at a given time is bad for her to the extent that, and because, it prevents her from having a longer life that would have been, on the whole, good. Deprivationism has the surprising implication that we can lessen how bad a person’s death is for them by changing the life they would have had if they lived longer (for example, by convincing a person’s favorite author to stop writing additional books). Some have found this possibility to be “self-defeating”; Egerstrom defends deprivationism against this objection.
- Book Title & Info
- Exploring the Philosophy of Death & Dying: Classical and Contemporary Perspectives.
- Publisher Link
- Routledge
- Publication Year
- 2020
- Part Title
- Making Death Not Quite as Bad for the One Who Dies
- list of editors
- Michael Cholbi
- Travis Timmerman
- Type
- book chapter
- Item sets
- Social Sciences Department