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| Introduction: Confronting the Reaper | |
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| The Reaper--Mysterious and Evil | |
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| The Structure of the Book | |
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| The Nature of Death | |
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| The Search for Death Itself | |
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| The Problems of Death | |
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| Conceptual Analysis | |
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| Analysis of Death or Criterion for Death? | |
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| The Biological Concept of Death | |
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| Life as a Part of Death | |
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| Life-Functional Theories of Life | |
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| Life Itself | |
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| Some Preliminary Objections | |
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| Aristotle's Life-Functional Analysis of Life | |
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| Some Modern Life-Functional Analyses of Life | |
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| The Matthews Approach | |
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| Conclusion | |
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| Vitalist Theories of Life | |
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| Vitalism | |
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| The Empirical Problem | |
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| The Jonah Problem | |
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| The Failure of Analyticity | |
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| DNA-ism | |
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| Genetic Informationism | |
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| Problems for Genetic Informationism | |
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| The Enigma of Death | |
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| The Gift of Life | |
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| The Biological Concept of Death | |
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| Perrett's Analysis | |
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| The Standard Analysis | |
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| Puzzles About Suspended Animation | |
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| Problems Concerning Fission and Fusion | |
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| The Mystery of Death | |
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| On Dying as a Process | |
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| Two Senses of 'Dying,' | |
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| Some Preliminary Proposals | |
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| Smart's Analysis of Dying2 | |
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| Problems for Smart's Analysis | |
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| A New Proposal | |
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| More Mysteries of Dying2 | |
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| On Death and Dying2 | |
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| The Survival of Death | |
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| The Termination Thesis | |
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| Some Philosophers Who Have Accepted the Termination Thesis | |
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| Doubts About the Termination Thesis | |
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| The Argument from Definition | |
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| The Argument from Dualism | |
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| Corpses and People | |
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| Death and Nonexistence As | |
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| A Materialist Conception of Death | |
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| A New Approach to Death | |
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| The Lifeline | |
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| Death Itself, "a Death," and Being Dead | |
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| Death and Life | |
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| Death and Existence | |
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| Deaths, Lives, and Histories | |
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| Death and Humanity | |
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| Death and Personality | |
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| A Materialist Way of Death | |
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| The Value of Death | |
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| Epicurus and the Evil of Death | |
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| Epicurus's Argument Against the Evil of Death | |
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| Difficulties for the First Version of the Argument | |
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| A New Version of the Argument | |
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| The Fallacy in the New Version | |
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| How Death Can Be Bad for the One Who Dies | |
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| More Puzzles About the Evil of Death | |
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| The Puzzles | |
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| Axiological Preliminaries | |
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| Things That Are Bad for People | |
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| The Evil of Death | |
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| Some Proposed Answers | |
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| Conclusions | |
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| Utilitarianism, Victimism, and the Morality of Killing | |
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| "Thou Shalt Not Kill," | |
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| Hedonic Act Utilitarianism and the Morality of Killing | |
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| Why HAU Fails to Explain the Wrongness of Killing | |
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| Theories Based on Harm to the Victim | |
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| And Why They Fail, Too | |
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| Why Killing Is Wrong | |
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| Ideal Act Utilitarianism | |
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| Vitalistic Act Utilitarianism | |
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| Hedono-vitalistic Act Utilitarianism | |
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| Problems for HVAU | |
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| Justicism | |
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| Justicized Act Utilitarianism | |
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| Abortion and the Failure to Conceive | |
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| Three Examples | |
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| Justicism, Murder, and the Failure to Conceive | |
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| Justicized Act Utilitarianism and the Problem of Abortion | |
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| The "Right to Life," | |
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| Advantages of This View | |
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| The Morality and Rationality of Suicide | |
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| Welcoming the Reaper | |
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| Three Arguments for the Immorality of Suicide | |
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| An Argument for the Irrationality of Suicide | |
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| An Epistemic Argument Against the Rationality of Suicide | |
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| "Calculative Rationality" and Suicide | |
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| Euthanasia | |
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| Epilogue | |
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| Notes | |
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| Bibliography | |
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| Index | |