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Apr 22, 2016 · Death can be bad by causing you to miss the rest of your life. More precisely, death, like sleep, can be good, bad, or a mixture of the two, depending on the circumstances. It’s good by sparing us from bad things, and bad by depriving us of good ones. In ordinary cases it will have consequences of both sorts.
Oct 2, 2020 · Fear is rational only for something bad. So Epicurus concludes that fearing death is pointless. [1] To be clear: the issue is being dead, not dying, since while dying we still exist. Dying can be awful and so rightly feared. 2. Reaction to Epicurus. Common sense has long recoiled to Epicurus. Surely death is bad if it deprives us of the goods ...
Jun 1, 2010 · If death is not a bad thing then many of the objections to euthanasia vanish. If we put aside the idea that death is always a bad thing, we are able to consider whether death may actually ...
And in any case, they have already passed on their genes successfully once. But the current understanding of why things die is a little more specific. When organisms reach sexual maturity, the ...
May 22, 2002 · This view overlooks something that Thomas Nagel (1970) noted in his seminal essay “Death,” namely the fact that things may be extrinsically good or bad for us, other things being equal, by virtue of causing us not to have—by virtue of precluding our having—things that are intrinsically good or bad for us. Consider that being rendered unconscious prior to surgery is extrinsically good ...
Nov 1, 2021 · Death is standing. It’s standing in the way liquid stands still in a container. Sometimes cooking instructions tell you to boil a mixture and then let it stand, while you complete another part of the recipe. That’s the way death is in the poem: standing, waiting for you to get farther along with whatever you are doing.
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Nov 29, 2020 · Given these depictions, one might conclude that the belief that death is a bad thing cannot derive from the post-mortem judgment myths in ancient Greek culture, because these stories tell us that death is a good thing for virtuous souls, but also may have had a corrective (and thus beneficial) effect even on vicious souls.
