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- W4244018049 abstract "Extract A line attributed to Woody Allen goes: “I don’t want to achieve immortality through my work, I want to achieve immortality through not dying. I don’t want to live on in the hearts of my countrymen, I want to live on in my apartment.”1 Part of the joke's effect comes from the abrupt drop from lofty metaphor (living on in hearts) to pedestrian literalness (living on in apartments). Part just comes from Allen's nebbishy, self-deprecating persona. (Leave world-historical fame and noble self-sacrifice to others; a prewar walk-up is enough for me.) What strikes a more sustained chord, though, is the joke's bleak knowingness, a kind typical of gallows humor. Try as you might to console or distract yourselves with substitutes, what matters—and deep down we all know this—is simply not dying. In the papers that form the core of this book, Samuel Scheffler suggests that, while our situation may not be more reassuring, it is at least more complicated. What happens after we die may be more important to us, and our not dying may be less important for us, than Allen's joke, or the sentiment it resonates with, would have it. This is not because Scheffler aims to show that we will somehow survive our deaths or should be unusually selfless. He makes his case simply by asking us to reflect carefully on what we do value and what our valuing it requires." @default.
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- W4244018049 title "Introduction" @default.
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