The Metaphysics of Death

includes index and biblioraphy

Introduction : Death, Metaphysics, and Morality ..........1 Death Knocks ............31 Rationality and the Fear of Death .............41 Death ..........59 The Makropulos Case : Reflections on the Tedium of Immortality ...............71 The Evil of Death ........93 How to be Dead and not care : A Defense of Epicurus ...........117 The Dead .........135 The Misfortunes of the Dead .......157 Harm to Others ..........169 Reasons and Persons ........191 Why is Death bad ...........219 Death and the Value of Life ...............231 Annihilation .......267 Epicurus and Annihilation ...........291 Some Puzzles about the evil of Death ........305 Well- Being and Time ............327