Death, Posthumous Harm, and Bioethics

✍ Scribed by James Stacey Taylor

Publisher: Routledge
Year: 2012
Tongue: English
Leaves: 243
Series: Routledge Annals of Bioethics
Category: Library

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✦ Synopsis

Death, Posthumous Harm, and Bioethics offers a highly distinctive and original approach to the metaphysics of death and applies this approach to contemporary debates in bioethics that address end-of-life and post-mortem issues. Taylor defends the controversial Epicurean view that death is not a harm to the person who dies and the neo-Epicurean thesis that persons cannot be affected by events that occur after their deaths, and hence that posthumous harms (and benefits) are impossible. He then extends this argument by asserting that the dead cannot be wronged, finally presenting a defence of revisionary views concerning posthumous organ procurement.

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