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    Death cannot harm the one who dies because harm requires ... — Carmelics
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    Challenges→No matter when it happens, dying is bad for those who die.

    Death cannot harm the one who dies because harm requires a subject who exists to be harmed, and the dead do not exist (Epicurus, Letter to Menoeceus).

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    • 1.Harm is a relational property requiring both a subject experiencing it and a time at which they experience it.
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    • 2.Death eliminates the subject's existence, so there is no entity present to undergo the experience of being harmed.
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    • 3.We cannot coherently say someone is harmed at a time when they do not exist, as harm requires conscious awareness or interests.
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    • 1.A person's interests and projects can be thwarted by death even if they don't exist to perceive it afterward.
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    • 2.Harm can occur to past or non-existent entities—e.g., a broken promise harms someone's legacy despite their non-existence.
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    • 3.Death's harm lies in the deprivation of future goods the person would have had, not in post-mortem suffering.
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