Death has long been a pre-occupation of philosophers, and this is especially so today. The
Oxford Handbook of Philosophy of Death collects 21 newly commissioned essays that cover …

The questions that surround death--Is death a harm to the person who dies? Should we be
afraid of death? Can the dead be harmed? Can they be wronged?--have been of …

This book contributes to current bioethical debates by providing a critical analysis of the
philosophy of human death. Bernard N. Schumacher discusses contemporary philosophical …

What is death? Do people survive death? What do we mean when we say that someone is"
dying"? Presenting a clear and engaging discussion of the classic philosophical questions …

This anthology of major classical and contemporary views on key ethical aspects of death
and dying is the only philosophically sophisticated, interdisciplinary, and up-to-date …

One of the points where there is a significant, long-lasting intersection of the interests of
many philosophers with the interests of many people of all kinds and conditions concerns …

TO APPRECIATE THE chapters included in this volume, one cannot simply attend to their
arguments. One must place them within the framework of our controversies, with our failure …

This collection of seventeen essays deals with the metaphysical, as opposed to the moral
issues pertaining to death. For example, the authors investigate (among other things) the …

My purpose in this essay is to consider some views about death and dying presented in two
recent books. One book is Death by philosopher Shelly Kagan and the second is Being …

Death, Posthumous Harm, and Bioethics offers a highly distinctive and original approach to
the metaphysics of death and applies this approach to contemporary debates in bioethics …