"Excerpt from Death, Immortality and Meaning in Life" Self-Quiz

. Subsenquentism is the view that

death is bad for the deceased before their death.

death is bad for the deceased after their death.

death is bad for the deceased but at no particular time.

death is not bad for the deceased.

. Atemporalism is the view that

death is bad for the deceased before their death.

death is bad for the deceased after their death.

death is bad for the deceased but at no particular time.

death is not bad for the deceased.

. One potential problem for priorism is that

if the deceased do not exist after death, then they cannot be harmed.

if the deceased are harmed before their death, then someone can be harmed by an event before it occurs.

every harm occurs at a particular time.

death doesn't involve any bad experiences.

. According to the deprivation thesis,

death is bad because it harms the deceased.

death is bad because it deprives the deceased of the good things of life.

death is bad because death can be painful for the deceased.

death is not bad because it does not deprive the deceased of anything.

. According to Nagel, the answer to the Symmetry Problem is that

while one could have died much later, one could not have been born substantially earlier.

while death often is very painful, being born is not as painful.

while it is rational to fear future harms, it is not rational to fear past harms.

while death closes possibilities, not being born merely prevents possibilities.

. Priorism claims that death harms the deceased before their death.

True

False

. Fischer accepts subsequentism.

True

False

. Fischer accepts that death is bad for the deceased.

True

False

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