"Death" Self-Quiz

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. Why do some people hold that death isnt bad, according to Nagel?

They argue that in certain cases, death actually relieves one of suffering correct incorrect

They argue that death merely deprives one of life, which has no value in itself correct incorrect

They argue that death is simply an experiential blank, so it has no value at all correct incorrect

All of the above correct incorrect

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. If death is an evil, for Nagel, this is because it is . . .

A state of non-existence correct incorrect

A loss of life correct incorrect

Often premature correct incorrect

Experienced as bad by its sufferers correct incorrect

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. Why does Nagel reject the notion that people only fear death because they try and fail to imagine what it is like to be dead?

Nagel doesnt reject this notion correct incorrect

This suggests that death is a state, and death isnt a state correct incorrect

People also cant imagine what it is like to be unconscious but unconsciousness itself isnt scary correct incorrect

People can imagine what it is like to be dead correct incorrect

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. Which of the following isnt a problem Nagel considers for his thesis?

The idea that something can only be bad for someone if he or she experience it correct incorrect

The notion that for many people we can live beyond our deaths correct incorrect

The idea that there is no subject for death to be bad for correct incorrect

The asymmetry between our attitudes toward prenatal and posthumous nonexistence correct incorrect

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. Death is bad, for Nagel, because of its positive features, like the pain it causes.

TRUE correct incorrect

FALSE correct incorrect

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. According to Nagel, the value of life attaches to mere organic survival.

TRUE correct incorrect

FALSE correct incorrect

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. Nagel rejects the idea that death is bad because it is a period of nonexistence.

TRUE correct incorrect

FALSE correct incorrect

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. Which of the following best describes what Nagel means by the term death?

The process of dying correct incorrect

Non-existence correct incorrect

Unconsciousness correct incorrect

Permanent non-existence correct incorrect

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. Why do some people hold that death isnt bad, according to Nagel?

They argue that in certain cases, death actually relieves one of suffering correct incorrect

They argue that death merely deprives one of life, which has no value in itself correct incorrect

They argue that death is simply an experiential blank, so it has no value at all correct incorrect

All of the above correct incorrect