Table of Contents

Contributors
Acknowledgements
Introduction - James Stacey Taylor

Section I: Classical Approaches to Death and their Critics
The Damage of Death: Incomplete Arguments and False Consolations - Martha C. Nussbaum
The harm of death in Cicero's first Tusculan disputation - James Warren
Epicurus on the Value of Death - Kai Draper

Section II: Death, and the Value of Death
The Evil of Death One More Time: Parallels between Time and Space - Harry S. Silverstein,
Adaptation - Steven Luper
Death and Desires - Ben Bradley and Kris McDaniel
Kripke's Moses - Palle Yourgrau
Concepts of Value and Our Thinking about Death - Stephen E. Rosenbaum

Section III: Posthumous Harm
The Vulnerability of the Dead - Geoffrey Scarre
Welfare and Harm After Death - Barbara Baum Levenbook

Section IV: Death and Bioethics
Doing Posthumous Harm - John Harris
Suicide: A Qualified Defense - David Benatar
Brain Injury and Survival - Walter Glannon

Index

About the Author

James Stacey Taylor is an Associate Professor of Philosophy at The College of New Jersey. He primarily writes on autonomy theory, and the metaphysics of death, as well as on how these theoretical issues relate to matters of practical ethical concern.

Reviews

"this book contains many significant contributions to the field. It is a collection of essays by various authors who have established themselves as important contributors to the growing literature in this area, and who generally take this opportunity to present elaborations or developments of their views... Overall, there is much here to reward 'philosophical thanatologists,' whether they are new to the field or already well steeped in the literature." -- Eldon
Soifer, Philosophy in Review