Almost Over
Aging, Dying, Dead
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 8095235 |
|---|---|
| Authors | F M Kamm (Henry Rutgers University Professor of Philosophy and Distinguished Professor of Philosophy, Rutgers University, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2020 |
| Publication date | 2020-06-18 |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | BOOK |
| Venue | Almost Over (SOURCE_BOOK) |
| Publisher | Oxford University PressNew York (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.1093/oso/9780190097158.001.0001 |
| OpenAlex | W4237944186 |
| ISBN | 9780190097158 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 10 |
This book is a discussion of philosophical, legal, and medical issues related to aging, dying, and death. It considers different views about whether and why death is bad for the person who dies, and whether these views bear on why it would be bad if there were no more persons at all. The book looks at how the general public is being asked to think about end-of-life issues by examining some questionnaires and conversation guides that have been developed. It also considers views about the process of dying and whether it might make sense to not resist death, or even to bring about the end of one’s life, given certain views about meaning in life and what things it is worth living on to get and do. Some hold that it is not only serious illness but ordinary aging that may give rise to some of these questions and the book considers various ways in which aging and the distribution of goods and bads in a life could occur. Physician-assisted suicide would be one way to end one’s life and the book examines arguments about its moral permissibility and whether or not it should be legalized as a matter of public policy. This discussion draws on capital punishment debates concerning state action and also on methods of balancing costs and benefits. The book examines the views of such prominent philosophers, doctors, and legal theorists as Shelly Kagan, Susan Wolf, Atul Gawande, Ezekiel Emanuel, Cass Sunstein, Neil Gorsuch, and others
Action (physics · Assisted suicide · Conversation · Meaning (existential · Political science · Psychotherapist · Sociology · Ethics in medical practice · Philosophical Ethics and Theory · Political Philosophy and Ethics · Psychology · Law
Permanent Value
Meaning in Lives Nearing Their End
Can We Measure the Badness of Death for the Person who Dies
Beneficence cannot justify voluntary euthanasia and physician-assisted suicide
Self‐Giving and Reflections on Life Extension
Beneficence‐Based Obligations and Ethics Consultation in Assisted Dying
The Future Is Not What It Used to Be
Value after death
Two Kinds of Arguments Against the Fittingness of Fearing Death
Death and Decline
| Citations per year | 2 |
|---|---|
| Citation span | 2021 - 2026 (6) |
| Highly cited | No |