Benefits Of Early Expiry Date

Everyone will inevitably die at some point. But despite this truth, few people think about death; about when it will come, or under what circumstances. Many see death as a frightful harm, for it involves the end of a familiar condition: physical existence. Others are divided, and think that while death from accidents is unfortunate, it can also be a merciful deliverance from disease or suffering. But would death be a harm if everyone died on an expiry date, which they would know? If death never occurred from accidents or diseases, would a death on the expiry date harm the one who dies? Here, death on an expiry date is assumed to be the permanent end of existence and is much like ordinary death, since it still involves a loss of life. But we will explore …show more content…
Arguably, the harm would not lie in dying on an early expiry date per se, but in having an early expiry date at all. In this essay, I will argue that having an early expiry date is harmful because it is the condition which allows the subject less time to enjoy the benefits of being alive; moreover, I will also argue that having an early expiry is harmful because it can render a young life hopeless. To accomplish this, I will supplement my own thoughts with Nagel’s work called “Death” and relate having an early expiry to an early deprivation of life’s benefits, and to the deterministic nature of an expiry date, respectively. Firstly, having an early expiry date harms because it decreases time one has to experience the benefits of being alive. To understand why that is unfavorable, we must first understand why living is good. For Nagel, being alive is considered good because it allows us to do things and have certain experiences. But his idea is somehow incomplete, since