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Dying: The Philosophy of the End of Life
The philosophy of dying: what a good death might be, Seneca on practicing death, Tolstoy on dying in denial, and how philosophy and ethics approach the end of life.
Dying is the process of death — the end of life as it is lived, faced, and prepared for. The philosophy of dying asks whether there is such a thing as a good death, what it would be, and how the awareness of our end should shape how we live toward it.
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