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    It is not the case that Death deprives its subject of all future pleasures, achievements, and relationships they would otherwise have had.

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    • 1.The dead cannot be harmed because harm requires a subject who experiences or is aware of their deprivation—the dead lack consciousness.
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    • 2.Death cannot deprive someone of goods they never would have experienced with certainty; future contingencies are not guaranteed possessions.
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    • 3.If death is bad due to lost future goods, then never being born would be equally bad—but most reject this symmetry as absurd.
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    Reasons Against

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    • 1.We value future goods (retirement, grandchildren, achievements) as parts of our life now, so losing access to them constitutes real harm.
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    • 2.Deprivation harm requires only that someone is worse off than they would have been, not that they suffer—death satisfies this condition.
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    • 3.A life cut short at 40 is intuitively worse than an identical life extended to 80, suggesting death's harm lies in lost future goods.
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