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    A posthumous event cannot be extrinsically (overall) bad ... — Carmelics
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    Supports→It is impossible for an event that occurs after a person dies to be bad for her.

    A posthumous event cannot be extrinsically (overall) bad for her because it cannot alter the amounts of pleasure or pain in her life.

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    We might also question the possibility of posthumous harm by drawing on the assumption (made by Mark Bernstein 1998, p. 19, and Walter Glannon 2001, p. 138, among others) that something is intrinsically good or bad for a person only if it reduces to her intrinsic, non-relational properties. For simplicity, we can focus on one version of this view, namely intrinsic hedonism. Suppose we assume that a person is harmed only by what is intrinsically or extrinsically bad for her, that intrinsic hedonism is the correct account of intrinsic harm and comparativism is the correct account of extrinsic ha...

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