Dying alone; The badness of death: part 1 [Death]

Educação Superior::Ciências Humanas::FilosofiaPresents a class with the Philosophy professor at Yale, Shelly Kagan about death. In this lecture the professor explores the claim that "we all die alone," presents a variety of arguments against it and ends by considering whether the primary badness of death could lie in the effects on those who are left behind. He uses Tolstoy's character Ivan Ilych to exemplify his argumen