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The fact that we will die, and that our death can come at any time, pervades the entirety of our living. There are many ways to think about and deal with death. Among those ways, however, a good number of them are attempts to escape its grip. In this book, Todd May seeks to confront death in its power. He considers the possibility that our mortal deaths are the end of us, and asks what this might mean for our living. What lessons can we draw from our mortality? And how might we live as creatures who die, and who know we are going to die? In answering these questions, May brings together two divergent perspectives on death. The first holds that death is not an evil, or at least that immortality would be far worse than dying. The second holds that death is indeed an evil, and that there is no escaping that fact. May shows that if we are to live with death, we need to hold these two perspectives together. Their convergence yields both a beauty and a tragedy to our living that are inextricably entwined. Drawing on the thoughts of many philosophers and writers -ancient and modern- as well as his own experience, May puts forward a particular view of how we might think about and, more importantly, live our lives in view of the inescapability of our dying. In the end, he argues, it is precisely the contingency of our lives that must be grasped and which must be folded into the hours or years that remain to each of us, so that we can live each moment as though it were at once a link to an uncertain future and yet perhaps the only link we have left.

Death --- Death. --- Dying --- End of life --- Life --- Terminal care --- Terminally ill --- Thanatology --- Psychological aspects. --- Philosophy --- Psychology --- Philosophical anthropology --- General ethics

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The ever-present possibility of death forces upon us the question of life’s meaning and for this reason death has been a central concern of philosophers throughout history. From Socrates to Heidegger, philosophers have grappled with the nature and significance of death. In Annihilation, Christopher Belshaw explores two central questions at the heart of philosophy’s engagement with death: what is death; and is it bad that we die? Belshaw begins by distinguishing between literal and metaphorical uses of the term and offers a unified and biological account of death, denying that death brings about non-existence. How our death relates to the death of the brain is explored in detail. Belshaw considers the common-sense view that death is often bad for us by examining the circumstances that might make it bad as well as the grounds for thinking that one death can be worse than another. In addition, Belshaw explores whether we can be harmed after we die and before we were born. The final chapters explore whether we should prevent more deaths and whether, via cryonics, brain transplants, data storage, we might cheat death. Throughout Belshaw shows how questions of personhood and life’s value are bound up with our views on the sense and significance of death. Annihilation’s in-depth analysis and insightful exposition will be welcomed not only by philosophers working on the metaphysics of death but also by students and scholars alike looking for a foundation for discussions of the ethics of abortion, euthanasia, life-support and suicide.

Death. --- Death --- Dying --- End of life --- Life --- Terminal care --- Terminally ill --- Thanatology --- Philosophy --- Philosophical anthropology --- Physiology: reproduction & development. Ages of life --- Immortality (Philosophy)

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Death --- Death in literature --- English language --- Social Sciences --- Psychology --- Germanic languages --- Dying --- End of life --- Life --- Terminal care --- Terminally ill --- Thanatology --- Study and teaching --- Psychological aspects --- Rhetoric --- Philosophy --- Study and teaching. --- Psychological aspects.

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Justifying the Obligation to Die provides a critical survey covering classical, medieval, and modern political thinking on how the state or sovereign may justifiably oblige members of the community to risk their lives on its behalf by being sent into war, and it uses Zionism to illustrate how this obligation has been argued in practice. The author then turns to the political thought of Hannah Arendt in order to argue how the obligation could become justifiable.

Political obligation. --- War --- Death --- Zionism --- Jews --- Zionist movement --- Jewish nationalism --- Dying --- End of life --- Life --- Terminal care --- Terminally ill --- Thanatology --- War and morals --- Obligation, Political --- Political science --- Moral and ethical aspects. --- Political aspects. --- Politics and government --- Restoration --- Philosophy

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Every day, thousands of people quietly face decisions as agonizing as those made famous in the Terri Schiavo case. Throughout that controversy, all kinds of people--politicians, religious leaders, legal and medical experts--made emphatic statements about the facts and offered even more certain opinions about what should be done. To many, courts were either ordering Terri's death by starvation or vindicating her constitutional rights. Both sides called for simple answers. If That Ever Happens to Me details why these simple answers were not right for Terri Schiavo and why they are not rig

Decision Making -- ethics. --- Enteral Nutrition -- ethics. --- Euthanasia. --- Euthanasia, Passive -- ethics. --- Life Support Care -- ethics. --- Persistent Vegetative State. --- Right to die. --- Schiavo, Terri, 1963-2005. --- Schiavo, Terri. --- Terminal care. --- Withholding Treatment -- legislation & jurisprudence. --- Terminal care --- Right to die --- Euthanasia --- Euthanasia, Passive --- Life Support Care --- Withholding Treatment --- Enteral Nutrition --- Persistent Vegetative State --- Decision Making --- Ethics --- Nutritional Support --- Patient Care --- Unconsciousness --- Morals --- Brain Damage, Chronic --- Thinking --- Feeding Methods --- Therapeutics --- Health Services --- Mental Processes --- Nutrition Therapy --- Terminal Care --- Consciousness Disorders --- Brain Diseases --- Psychology, Social --- Psychological Phenomena and Processes --- Analytical, Diagnostic and Therapeutic Techniques and Equipment --- Central Nervous System Diseases --- Behavior and Behavior Mechanisms --- Neurobehavioral Manifestations --- Health Care Facilities, Manpower, and Services --- Health Care --- Psychiatry and Psychology --- Nervous System Diseases --- Neurologic Manifestations --- Diseases --- Signs and Symptoms --- Pathological Conditions, Signs and Symptoms --- Palliative Care --- Medicine --- Health & Biological Sciences --- Schiavo, Terri, --- Death, Right to --- Death with dignity --- Natural death (Right to die) --- End-of-life care --- Terminally ill --- Assisted death (Euthanasia) --- Assisted dying (Euthanasia) --- Death, Assisted (Euthanasia) --- Death, Mercy --- Dying, Assisted (Euthanasia) --- Killing, Mercy --- Mercy death --- Mercy killing --- Care and treatment --- Medical care --- Schindler-Schiavo, Terri, --- Schindler, Theresa Marie, --- Death --- Life and death, Power over --- Advance directives (Medical care) --- Do-not-resuscitate orders --- Suicide --- Care of the sick --- Critical care medicine --- Homicide --- Medical ethics --- Assisted suicide --- legislation & jurisprudence. --- ethics. --- PVS (Persistent Vegetative State) --- Persistent Unawareness State --- Post-Comatose Unawareness State --- Post-Traumatic Unawareness State --- Postcomatose Unawareness State --- Posttraumatic Unawareness State --- Prolonged Post-Traumatic Unawareness --- Transient Vegetative State --- Vegetative State --- Minimally Conscious State --- Permanent Vegetative State --- Post-Traumatic Vegetative State --- Vegetative State, Persistent --- Minimally Conscious States --- PVSs (Persistent Vegetative State) --- Permanent Vegetative States --- Persistent Unawareness States --- Persistent Vegetative States --- Post Comatose Unawareness State --- Post Traumatic Unawareness State --- Post Traumatic Vegetative State --- Post-Comatose Unawareness States --- Post-Traumatic Unawareness States --- Post-Traumatic Unawareness, Prolonged --- Post-Traumatic Unawarenesses, Prolonged --- Post-Traumatic Vegetative States --- Postcomatose Unawareness States --- Posttraumatic Unawareness States --- Prolonged Post Traumatic Unawareness --- Prolonged Post-Traumatic Unawarenesses --- State, Minimally Conscious --- State, Permanent Vegetative --- State, Persistent Unawareness --- State, Persistent Vegetative --- State, Post-Comatose Unawareness --- State, Post-Traumatic Unawareness --- State, Post-Traumatic Vegetative --- State, Postcomatose Unawareness --- State, Posttraumatic Unawareness --- State, Transient Vegetative --- State, Vegetative --- States, Minimally Conscious --- States, Permanent Vegetative --- States, Persistent Unawareness --- States, Persistent Vegetative --- States, Post-Comatose Unawareness --- States, Post-Traumatic Unawareness --- States, Post-Traumatic Vegetative --- States, Postcomatose Unawareness --- States, Posttraumatic Unawareness --- States, Transient Vegetative --- States, Vegetative --- Transient Vegetative States --- Unawareness State, Persistent --- Unawareness State, Post-Comatose --- Unawareness State, Post-Traumatic --- Unawareness State, Postcomatose --- Unawareness State, Posttraumatic --- Unawareness States, Persistent --- Unawareness States, Post-Comatose --- Unawareness States, Post-Traumatic --- Unawareness States, Postcomatose --- Unawareness States, Posttraumatic --- Unawareness, Prolonged Post-Traumatic --- Unawarenesses, Prolonged Post-Traumatic --- Vegetative State, Permanent --- Vegetative State, Post-Traumatic --- Vegetative State, Transient --- Vegetative States --- Vegetative States, Permanent --- Vegetative States, Persistent --- Vegetative States, Post-Traumatic --- Vegetative States, Transient --- Akinetic Mutism --- Coma --- Deciding --- Decision (Psychology) --- Decision analysis --- Decision processes --- Making decisions --- Management --- Management decisions --- Choice (Psychology) --- Problem solving --- Minimally conscious state --- Permanent vegetative state --- Persistent unawareness state --- Post-traumatic vegetative state --- Posttraumatic vegetative state --- PVS (Persistent vegetative state) --- Unawareness state, Persistent --- Vegetative state, Persistent --- Brain damage --- Loss of consciousness --- Decision making