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Accounting for Asymmetry? Get access

F. M. Kamm
in Morality, Mortality Volume I: Death and Whom to Save From It
Published: 09 July 1998
... to a person who has already existed and undoes him; the Future Deprivation Factor, that death deprives the person who dies of significant future goods (the Thomas Nagel/Derek Parfit point); and the Extinction Factor, that death means the possibility of anything significant for the person in the future is over...
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Appropriate Attitudes Toward Nonexistence Get access

F. M. Kamm
in Morality, Mortality Volume I: Death and Whom to Save From It
Published: 09 July 1998
... happens to a person who has already existed and undoes him; the Extinction Factor, that death means the possibility of anything significant for the person in the future is over; and the Deprivation Factor, that death deprives the person who dies of significant future goods (the Thomas Nagel/Derek Parfit...