"Exploring the Philosophy of Death and Dying: Classical and Contemporary Perspectives is the first book to offer students the full breadth of philosophical issues that are raised by the end of life. Included are many of the essential voices that have contributed to the philosophy of death and dying throughout history and in contemporary research. The 38 chapters in its nine sections contain both classic texts (by authors such as Epicurus, Hume, Nietzsche, and Schopenhauer) and new short argumentative essays by world-leading contemporary experts"--
Pt. 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 -- pt. 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 / Rose Hershenov -- pt. 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 -- pt. 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 -- pt. 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 Berlin -- pt. 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) / Buddha -- 25.Voluntary Death (excerpts) / Friedrich Nietzsche -- pt. 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 -- pt. VIII Is Suicide Rationally or Morally Defensible? -- 30.Whether One Is Allowed to Kill Oneself (excerpts) / 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 -- pt. 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.
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