1. Nagel’s Direct Challenge
 Death is a loss for the person who suffers it.
Since losses are bad for the person who
suffers them, death is bad for the person who
dies.
 Rosenbaum: If death is a loss, it’s unlike any
other loss we know of.

2. Why think death is a loss?
Explains the asymmetry between how we think
about death and how we think about pre-
conception.
Pre-Conception Death
Non-Existence Existence Non-Existence
Not Seen as Bad for Us Seen as Bad for Us

3. Summing Up
 Rosenbaum: Death, when understood as a
kind of non-existence, can’t be bad for the
person who dies, because we can’t
experience it. We can’t experience it, because
the state doesn’t begin to occur until after we
cease to exist, and therefore cannot cause
any effect in us.
“Where death is, you are not.”
-Epicurus