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Death is the one thing none of us escapes, and philosophers have disagreed for millennia about what, if anything, makes it bad. This course works through their best arguments. We start with whether death harms the one who dies, then ask whether the living can wrong the dead. The middle of the semester turns to the hardest cases in applied ethics: abortion, euthanasia, suicide, and the killing of animals. We end by asking whether you should want to live forever.