In other words, my view parallels ordinary cases of bad in all respects except one. The one respect in which it differs is the one respect in which death33 differs from ordinary bads. It denies that a person must exist at the time he is dead in order for death to be bad for that person. The reason why death is bad for that person is precisely because it ends his existence and deprives him of all the good he would have had if he had continued existing. The view involves no “backward causation” because whatever it is that brings about the being’s death causes the annihilation and subsequent
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