Accounting for the Harm of Death

Pacific Philosophical Quarterly 97 (1):89-112 (2014)
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I defend a theory of the way in which death is a harm to the person who dies that fits into a larger, unified account of harm ; and includes an account of the time of death's harmfulness, one that avoids the implications that death is a timeless harm and that people have levels of welfare at times at which they do not exist.

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10.1111/papq.12031

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Duncan Purves
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