Book Review: Death and the Afterlife (The Berkeley Tanner Lectures)
This is not a book about suicide or depression. It is not even really about “the afterlife” in the sense of a personal or spiritual afterlife. It is about the opposite of these topics. It is about why we value this opportunity to be alive. Samuel Scheffler is a philosopher at NYU who explores thought experiments in which there are no humans left alive some short time after we ourselves die. He believes that when most people imagine this scenario it takes something significant away from the pleasures of being alive.
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