In this excerpt from The Cambridge Companion to Life and Death, discover the complex connections between ethics, metaphysics, and significance when it comes to the question of life and death.
Read MoreThis week, Steven Luper, the editor of The Cambridge Companion to Life and Death, analyzes the controversial question of euthanasia. Should the decision to die be left in the hands of the suffering? And should we help them to carry out their wishes?
Read MoreHow does what we are change our definitions of those states? These philosophical questions are at the heart of modern issues like abortion and assisted suicide. In the first of three posts on The Cambridge Companion to Life and Death, editor Steven Luper tackles these philosophical questions and offers a history of the debates.
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