Death’s Values and Obligations: A Pragmatic Framework

• Main Author: Cooley, Dennis R. (Author)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Dordrecht : Springer Netherlands : Imprint: Springer, 2015.
• Series: International Library of Ethics, Law, and the New Medicine, 62
• Subjects: Philosophy.; Neurosciences.; Ethics.; Health psychology.; Health Psychology.

This book brings together the relevant interdisciplinary and method elements needed to form a conceptual framework that is both pragmatic and rigorous.  By using the best, and often the latest, work in thanatology, psychology, neuroscience, sociology, physics, philosophy and ethics, it develops a fr...

Table of Contents:

• A Pragmatic Method
• A Pragmatic Framework of Values and Principles: The Beginning
• Defining and Valuing Properties and Individuals
• What harm does death do to the decedent?
• How should we feel about our own death?
• How should we feel about another’s death?
• Is there a duty to die?
• A duty to suicide.