Journal article
Value after death
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Does our life have value for us after we die? Despite the importance of such a question, many would find it absurd, even incoherent. Once we are dead, the thought goes, we are no longer around to have any wellbeing at all. However, in this paper I argue that this common thought is mistaken. In order to make sense of some of our most central normative thoughts and practices, we must hold that a person can have wellbeing after they die. I provide two arguments for this claim on the basis of postmortem harms and benefits as well as the lasting significance of death. I suggest two ways of underwriting posthumous wellbeing.
- Publication status:
- Published
- Peer review status:
- Peer reviewed
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- Publisher copy:
- 10.1111/rati.12333
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- Publisher:
- Wiley
- Journal:
- Ratio More from this journal
- Volume:
- 35
- Issue:
- 3
- Pages:
- 194-203
- Publication date:
- 2022-03-28
- Acceptance date:
- 2022-03-06
- DOI:
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1467-9329
- ISSN:
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0034-0006
- Language:
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English
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- Pubs id:
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2092040
- Local pid:
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pubs:2092040
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2025-02-25
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- Copyright holder:
- Christopher Frugé
- Copyright date:
- 2022
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- © 2022 The Authors. Ratio published by John Wiley & Sons Ltd. This is an open access article under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial License, which permits use, distribution and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited and is not used for commercial purposes.
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