The Cambridge Companion to Life and Death

Introduction Steven Luper Part I. The Metaphysics of Life and Death: 1. The nature of life Mark A. Bedau 2. The nature of people Eric T. Olson 3. Persistence and time Katherine Hawley 4. The malleability of identity Marya Schechtman 5. The nature of human death David DeGrazia Part II. The Significance of Life and Death: 6. Assessing lives Noah Lemos 7. On the length of a good life Eyjolfur K. Emilsson 8. Mortal harm John Martin Fischer 9. When do we incur mortal harm? Jens Johansson 10. The symmetry problem James Warren 11. Posthumous harm Simon Keller 12. Life's meaning Steven Luper Part III. The Ethics of Life and Death: 13. Enhancing humanity Nicholas Agar 14. Procreating David Archard 15. Abortion Michael Tooley 16. Killing ourselves Thomas Hill, Jr 17. Killing in self-defense Kadri Vihvelin 18. Imperfect aiding Matthew Hanser 19. Killing and extinction Krister Bykvist.