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    It is not the case that A person's death does not cause her to have any experiences (sensations).

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    • 1.The harm of deprivation does not require a subject to experience the deprivation at the time it occurs.
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    • 2.Death deprives a person of future goods (pleasures, achievements, relationships) that they had a stake in acquiring.
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    • 3.A harm that deprives one of future goods is a genuine harm to that person even if unfelt, as Nagel argues in 'Death' (1970).
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    Reason for 2 of 2
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    • 1.The Epicurean argument assumes that temporal overlap between subject and harm is necessary for harm to occur.
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    • 2.This assumption is falsified by ante-mortem harms: being betrayed by a friend who dies before you discover it still wrongs you.
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    • 3.If harms can be real without experiential simultaneity, the non-overlap of death and existence does not establish death is harmless.
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    • 1.When we are, death is not, and when death is present, then we are not.
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    • 2.The death of a person and that person's existence do not overlap in time.
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