Exploring the philosophy of death and dying : classical and contemporary perspectives /: classical and contemporary perspectives. (2020)

• Record Type: Book
• Further Information: Note: Edited by Michael Cholbi, Travis Timmerman.
• Editors: Cholbi, Michael; Timmerman, Travis, 1986-
• Contents: PART I When Do We Die? 1 Defining Death: A Report on the Medical, Legal and Ethical Issues in the Determination of Death (Excerpt) President’s Commission for the Study of Ethical Problems In Medicine and Biomedical and Behavioral Research 2 Defining Death in a Technological World: Why Brain Death Is Death John P. Lizza 3 We Die When Entropy Overwhelms Homeostasis Michael Nair-Collins 4 What It Is to Die Cody Gilmore PART II Can We Survive Our Death? 5 The Tragic Sense of Life (Excerpts) Miguel de Unamuno 6 Can We Survive Our Deaths? Stephen Cave 7 The Possibility of an Afterlife David Hershenov and Rose Hershenov PART III Can Death Be Good or Bad for Us? If So, When Is It Good or Bad for Us? 8 Letter to Menoeceus Epicurus 9 Two Arguments for Epicureanism Jens Johansson 10 Why Death Is Not Bad for the One Who Dies James Stacey Taylor 11 Death Is Bad for Us When We’re Dead Neil Feit 12 Making Death Not Quite as Bad for the One Who Dies Kirsten Egerstrom PART IV Can Lucretius’ Asymmetry Problem Be Solved? 13 On the Nature of Things (Excerpts) Lucretius 14 If You Want to Die Later, Then Why Don’t You Want to Have Been Born Earlier? Travis Timmerman 15 Coming Into and Going Out of Existence Frederik Kaufman PART V Would Immortality Be Good for Us? 16 The Epic of Gilgamesh (Excerpts) 17 The Story of the Man Who Did Not Wish to Die Yei Theodora Ozaki 18 How to Live a Never-Ending Novela (Or, Why Immortality Needn’t Undermine Identity Benjamin Mitchell-Yellin 19 Taking Stock of the Risks of Life without Death August Gorman 20 Immortality, Boredom, and Standing for Something David Beglin PART VI What Is the Best Attitude to Take Toward Our Mortality? 21 Death, Mortality, and Meaning Todd May 22 Fitting Attitudes Towards Deprivations Ben Bradley 23 The Enchiridion (Excerpts) Epictetus 24 Setting the Wheel of Dhamma in Motion (Excerpts) 25 Voluntary Death Friedrich Nietzsche PART VII How Should We React to the Deaths of Others? 26 Letter to Lucilius Lucius Annaeus Seneca 27 Why Grieve? Michael Cholbi 28 The Significance of Future Generations Roman Altshuler 29 Death and Survival Online Patrick Stokes PART VIII Is Suicide Rationally or Morally Defensible? 30 Whether One Is Allowed to Kill Oneself St Thomas Aquinas 31 Of Suicide (Excerpts) David Hume 32 Suicide is Sometimes Rational and Morally Defensible David Benatar 33 Suicide and Its Discontents Philip Reed 34 An Irrational Suicide? Jukka Varelius PART IX How Does Death Affect the Meaningfulness of Our Lives? 35 World as Will and Representation (Excerpts) Arthur Schopenhauer 36 Death in Mind: Life, Meaning, and Mortality Kathy Behrendt 37 Meaning in Life in Spite of Death Thaddeus Metz 38 Out of the Blue into the Black: Reflections on Death and Meaning Michael Hauskeller
• Edition: 1st
• Publisher Details: London : Routledge
• Publication Date: 2020
• Extent: 1 online resource
• Subjects: 128.5; Death
• Languages: English
• ISBNs: 9781000216745; 9781000216684; 9781003106050
• Related ISBNs: 9781138393578; 9781138393585
• Notes: Note: Includes bibliographical references and index.; Note: Description based on CIP data; resource not viewed.
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