The case against death / Ingemar Patrick Linden.
Series: Basic bioethicsPublisher: Cambridge, Massachusetts : The MIT Press, [2022]Description: x, 258 pages ; 23 cmContent type:- text
- unmediated
- volume
- 0262543168
- 9780262543163
- 128/.5 23
- BD444 .L4895 2022
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Includes bibliographical references and index.
The case against death -- The case against dying -- Death is harmless -- Life is overrated -- Death is natural and therefore good -- It would be boring to live longer -- We need a deadline -- Morality, character, virtue, and moral excellence -- Death is the mother of beauty -- Death saves us from overpopulation -- Death saves us from social consequences worse than death -- The state of the debate and a concluding dialogue concerning the badness of human mortality.
"An argument against the "Wise View" of death that it is an inevitable and acceptable part of life"-- Provided by publisher.