Living with the Dead Taylor & Francis Ltd

This book explores the moral place of the dead in our lives and in our afterlives. It argues that our lives are saturated by the past intentions and values of the dead, and that we offer the dead a form of modest immortality by fulfilling our obligations to remember them. Part 1 examines the scope and limits of our obligations to the dead, including cases when they conflict with vital interests of the living. Part 2 argues that tradition offers the dead a form of modest immortality—the dead live...