Our Stories: Essays on Life, Death, and Free Will

摘要

[...] there are four essays that explore whether death can be bad for the person who dies. Philosophers typically respond to this argument by asserting that it is a brute fact that human beings have "asymmetric attitudes toward death and prenatal nonexistence" - we "consider the prospects of our future deaths as bad or unfortunate for us, whereas we do not regret the fact that we were born when we actually were born, rather than earlier."