Part I. Human Personal Death: 1. Introduction
3. So-called 'personal death'
4. The anthropological challenge of neocortical death
5. Ethics as the criterion for defining death
6. Diversity of definitions of death in a secular ethic
Part II. Theory of Knowledge about death: 8. Scheler's intuitive knowledge of mortality
9. Heidegger's being-towards-death
10. Is mortality the object of foreknowledge"
11. Inductive knowledge of death and Jean-Paul Sartre
12. Knowledge of mortality is inseparable from the relation to the other
13. Death as the object of experience
Part III. Does Death Mean Nothing to Us": 14. The 'nothingness of death': Epicurus and his followers
15. Discussion of experientialism and the need for a subject
16. Death: an evil of privation
Part I. Human Personal Death: 1. Introduction
3. So-called 'personal death'
4. The anthropological challenge of neocortical death
5. Ethics as the criterion for defining death
6. Diversity of definitions of death in a secular ethic
Part II. Theory of Knowledge about death: 8. Scheler's intuitive knowledge of mortality
9. Heidegger's being-towards-death
10. Is mortality the object of foreknowledge"
11. Inductive knowledge of death and Jean-Paul Sartre
12. Knowledge of mortality is inseparable from the relation to the other
13. Death as the object of experience
Part III. Does Death Mean Nothing to Us": 14. The 'nothingness of death': Epicurus and his followers
15. Discussion of experientialism and the need for a subject
16. Death: an evil of privation