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Book SynopsisThis collection of papers aims to increase our understanding of a) what meaning in life is: how it is to be understood, what its constituents are, and how it can be properly distinguished from other features that are commonly thought to be required for a good life, such as happiness, b) in what way, if any, mortality can be said to be detrimental to a life''s meaningfulness and what follows from this for the desirability of radical life extension and other (limit-removing) alterations of the present human condition, and c) in what way, if any, death and mortality can be said to be requisites or at least constituents of a meaningful life.
Table of ContentsNotes on Contributors; Introduction: Death and Meaning Michael Hauskeller; 1. Meaning and Anti-Meaning in Life and What Happens After We Die Sven Nyholm; 2. Importance, Fame, and Transcending Limits Guy Kahane; 3. Dying for a Cause Antti Kauppinen; 4. Promises to the Dead James Stacey Taylor; 5. Comparting the Meaningfulness of Finite and Infinite Lives: Can We Reap What We Sow if We Are Immortal? Thaddeus Metz; 6. God, the Meaning of Life, and Meaning in Lives Daniel Hill; 7. When Death Comes Too Late. Radical Life Extension and the Makropulos Case Michael Hauskeller; 8. Desirability without Desire. Life Extension, Boredom and Spiritual Experience Drew Chastain; 9. Meaning, Value, and the Imperfect Life Havi Carel; 10. The Meaning of Pain and the Pain of Meaning Teodora Manea; 11. Grieving Our Way Back to Meaningfulness Michael Cholbi; 12. Can We Measure the Badness of Death for the Person Who Dies? Thomas Schramme; 13. Meaning in Lives Nearing Their End F.M. Kamm; 14. Why Do People Want to Die? The Meaning of Life from the Perspective of Euthanasia Fredrik Svenaeus.
