Sarah Perry-Every Cradle Is a Grave Rethinking the Ethics of Birth and Suicide-Nine-Banded Books (2014) by Perry, Sarah -- Read -- Imperial Library of Trantor

Index

Preface Introduction: Breaking the Ring of Motivated Ignorance PART I: A Worldview of Worldviews

Chapter One: Free Disposal and the Burden of Life

The Suicide Prohibition The Cost of Disposal The Land of Free Disposal The Burden of Life

Chapter Two: The Empirical Nature of the Meaning of Life

The Needs for Meaning Value Social belonging Purpose Efficacy Self-worth or status How Meaning Operates: Methods and Illusions Meaning infection False permanence Suffering measures meaning Illusion of control The Story Non-fungibility of meaning

Chapter Three: The Modern Sacredness and Moral Foundations

Morphology of the Sacred A Window into Sacredness: The Violation Sacredness Negotiations Moral Foundations Sacrednesses Old and New A Necessary Danger

Chapter Four: Experience Machines and Their Ratification

PART II: The Ethics of Suicide and the Suicide Prohibition

Chapter Five: Moral Foundations Analysis of Suicide and Childbearing

Suicide and Moral Foundations Childbearing and Moral Foundations

Chapter Six:What Really Causes Suicide

Failed Social Belonging Burdensomeness Competence What Doesn’t Cause Suicide Evolutionary Considerations Attempted Suicide as an Adaptive Behavior: Suicide Gambles

Chapter Seven: On Contagion

Behavioral Contagion Ethical Perspectives on Suicide Contagion The Science of Suicide Contagion Moral Contagion or Informational Contagion? Mass Clusters and Point Clusters The Death of Marilyn Monroe Why Women? Other Factors in Contagion: Negative Definition of Suicide

Chapter Eight: The Censorship of Suicide

Censorship of Suicide versus Censorship of Violence Contagion and Moral Responsibility Moral Responsibility and Willingness to Censor

PART III: The Ethics of Procreation

Chapter Nine: Procreative Responsibility: A Road Map

Liberty Harm and Measurement: Preferentist and Non-Preferentist Approaches Preferentist Approaches and Evidence Free Disposal and the Imaginary Survey Revealed Preference in Non-Suicidal Behavior Non-Preferentist Approaches Naive Weighing Benatar’s Asymmetry Shiffrin’s Asymmetries Uncertainty

Chapter Ten: The Mathematics of Misery

Truncated Utility Functions and the Value of Life Negative Utility and the Death Wish Economy Policy Implications What Real Human Utility Functions Are Functions Of Poor Baby or Rich Baby: Which is Worse? The Economics of Palliation and Bullshit

Chapter Eleven: The Burden of Life

Work and Leisure Poverty and Pain The Demand for Pain Relief Is Loss Aversion Irrational? A Place for Quantitative Methods

Chapter Twelve: Hurting People and Doing Good Chapter Thirteen: The World of Nature of Which We Are a Part

1. On The Ways In Which Nature Makes Andrea Yates Look Like June Cleaver 2. The Incoherence of Species-Relative Morality 3. Respect for Species? 4. Use Nature As We Please? 5. Is Being Human-Like Better?

Appendix: Living in the Epilogue: Social Policy as Palliative Care

The Story as a Cognitive Bias Living in the Epilogue There Are No Stories In Heaven The Cheery and the Damned Palliative Care: A Double Standard for People in the Epilogue Toward Social Policy as Palliative Care

Acknowledgments