The ethics of cryonics : is it immoral to be immortal? /: is it immoral to be immortal?. (2018)

• Record Type: Book
• Further Information: Note: Francesca Minerva.
• Other Names: Minerva, Francesca
• Contents: Intro; Preface; Acknowledgements; Contents; Part I: Cryonics as an Ethical Problem; Introduction; Chapter 1: Pausing Death; Weird Goals; Starting and Ending Life in Liquid Nitrogen; The Information-Theoretic Criterion of Death; Public Scepticism Towards Biotechnology; Against Nature; Humans Should Not "Play God"; Weirdness and Repugnance; Uncertainty; Only the Rich Will Be Able to Afford It; References; Chapter 2: Resuming Life; Objections to Cryonics; Waste of Resources; Waste of Organs for Transplants; Waste of Money That Could Be Used for Donation to an Effective Charity. Indifference of the FutureNo Interest in Spending Resources on Reviving the Cryopreserved; No Interest in Developing Cryonics Technology; No Interest in "Homo sapiens"; Desirability of Being Revived in the Future; Trouble Adapting Even to an Objectively Better World; References; Part II: Cryonics as a Step Towards Immortality; 1.1 Introduction; References; Chapter 3: The Death Conundrum; Is Death Bad?; Death as Transition to Nonexistence; A Life Worth Starting and a Life Worth Living; Whose Nonexistence?; Death as Deprivation; The Harm of Deprivation; The Plausible Counterfactuals. Epistemic Disagreement About Plausible CounterfactualsDeath as Deprivation of Negative Counterfactuals; Death as Frustration of Desires; References; Chapter 4: The Immortality Conundrum; Different Types of Immortality; What Would an Indefinitely Long Life Look Like?; Freedom from Regrets; Personal Identity; A Recognizably Human Life; Would Virtual Immortality Deprive People of Eternity in Heaven?; Boredom; Tiredness; References; Part III: Alternative Uses of Cryonics; Introduction; Chapter 5: Cryothanasia; Objections to Euthanasia Applied to Cryothanasia; Deontological; Faith-Based. Principles of Medical EthicsWeirdness and Repugnance; Unlikelihood and Futility; Resource Use; References; Chapter 6: Cryosuspension of Pregnancy; Giving Pregnant Women Another Option; Would Objections to Abortion Apply to Cryosuspension of Pregnancy?; What Type of "Future Like Ours"?; Potentiality; Killing an Innocent Is Always Impermissible; Reproductive Technology; Therapeutic Aid; Adoption; Ectogenesis; Limits; References; Index.
• Publisher Details: Cham : Palgrave Macmillan
• Publication Date: 2018
• Extent: 1 online resource
• Subjects: 614.6; Social sciences; Cryonics -- Moral and ethical aspects; Immortality -- Moral and ethical aspects; Cryopreservation -- ethics; MEDICAL -- Forensic Medicine; MEDICAL -- Preventive Medicine; MEDICAL -- Public Health; Philosophy -- Ethics & Moral Philosophy; Social Science -- Anthropology -- Physical; Bio-ethics; Anthropology; Technology—Sociological aspects; Bioethics; Physical anthropology; Social Science -- Sociology -- General; Sociology; Electronic books
• Languages: English
• ISBNs: 9783319785998; 3319785990
• Related ISBNs: 9783319785981
• Notes: Note: Online resource; title from PDF title page (EBSCO, viewed June 11, 2018).
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