A puzzle about death's badness: Can death be bad for the paradise-bound?

TW Cyr - International journal for philosophy of religion, 2016 - Springer
Since at least the time of Epicurus, philosophers have debated whether (and how) death
could be bad for the one who has died, since (it is typically assumed) death is a permanent …

Asymmetry and incoherence: a reply to Cyr

J Johansson - The Journal of Ethics, 2017 - Springer
In defense of the Deprivation Approach to the badness of death against the Lucretian
objection that death is relevantly similar to prenatal nonexistence, John Martin Fischer and …

The Lucretian Puzzle and the Nature of Time

J Johansson - The Journal of Ethics, 2017 - Springer
If a person's death is bad for him for the reason that he would have otherwise been
intrinsically better off, as the Deprivation Approach says, does it not follow that his prenatal …