Morality, Mortality Volume I: Death and Whom to Save From It

Abstract

Morality, Mortality as a whole deals with certain aspects of ethical theory and with moral problems that arise primarily in contexts involving life-and-death decisions. The book explores fundamental questions about death: Why is death bad for us, even on the assumption that it involves the absence of experience? Is it worse for us than prenatal nonexistence? The importance of the theoretical issues is not limited to their relevance to these decisions; they are, rather, issues at the heart of basic moral and political theory.