TY - BOOK AU - Linden,Patrick Ingemar TI - The case against death T2 - Basic bioethics SN - 0262543168 AV - BD444 .L4895 2022 U1 - 128/.5 23 PY - 2022///] CY - Cambridge, Massachusetts PB - The MIT Press KW - Death N1 - 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 N2 - "An argument against the "Wise View" of death that it is an inevitable and acceptable part of life"-- ER -