Does our life have value for us after we die? Despite the importance of such a question, many would find it absurd, even incoherent. Once we are dead, the thought goes, we are no longer around to have any wellbeing at all. However, in this paper I argue that this common thought is mistaken. In order to make sense of some of our most central normative thoughts and practices, we must hold that a person can have wellbeing after they die. I provide two arguments for this claim on the basis of postmortem harms and benefits as well as the lasting significance of death. I suggest two ways of underwriting posthumous wellbeing.

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死后的价值

我们死后的生命对我们有价值吗？尽管这样一个问题很重要，但许多人会觉得它很荒谬，甚至语无伦次。一旦我们死了，这个想法就会发生，我们就不再有任何幸福了。然而，在本文中，我认为这种普遍的想法是错误的。为了理解我们一些最核心的规范性思想和实践，我们必须认为一个人在死后可以拥有幸福。基于死后的危害和益处以及死亡的持久意义，我为这一主张提供了两个论据。我提出了两种保障死后福利的方法。