Metaphysics as prolegomenon to ethics / Joel Kupperman -- Meaning of life / John Kekes -- In defense of a common ideal for a human life / E. M. Adams -- Can the dead really be buried? / Palle Yourgrau -- Later death/earlier birth / Christopher Belshaw -- Death and the psychological conception of personal identity / Jon Martin Fischer and Daniel Speak -- Thick and thin selves : reply to Fischer and Speak / Frederik Kaufman -- Termination thesis / Fred Feldman -- Evil of death revisited / Harry S. Silverstein -- Death and asymmetries in normative appraisals / Ishtiyaque Haji -- Appraising death in human life : two modes of valuation / Stephen E. Rosenbaum -- "For now have I my death" : the "duty to die" versus the duty to help the ill stay alive / Felicia Ackerman -- Taking life and the argument from potentiality / Roy W. Perrett -- Privatizing death : metaphysical discouragements of ethical thinking / John Woods -- Justification for killing noncombatants in war / F. M. Kamm -- Capital punishment and the sanctity of life / Philip E. Devine -- Aesthetics : the need for a theory / Mary Mothersill.
