Part III. Ageing and society -- The desirability and morality of life extension / John K. Davis. Ageing and the temporality of the good life / Mark Schweda -- Children's prudential value / Anthony Skelton -- The ethics of ageing in Frank Perry's The Swimmer / Christopher Hamilton -- Is ageing good? / Christine Overall -- Mental health in old age / Simon Keller -- In defense of a semi-stoical attitude about ageing and death / David De Grazia -- Part II. Ageing and morality -- Personhood across the lifespan / Søren Holm -- African and East Asian perspectives on ageing / Thaddeus Metz -- Special obligations in long-standing friendships / Diane Jeske -- Forgiveness and ageing / Geoffrey Scarre -- Life-extending treatments for people with dementia / Nancy S. Jecker -- 'Half in love with easeful death': rational suicide and the elderly / L. W. Sumner -- Part III. Ageing and society -- 'To Grandmother's house we go': on women, ethics, and ageing / Samantha Brennan -- Ageing, unequal longevities and intergenerational justice / Axel Gosseries -- Ageing, justice, and work: alternatives to mandatory retirement / Daniel Halliday and Tom Parr -- Age and well-being: ethical implications of the U-curve of happiness / C. S. Wareham -- The desirability and morality of life extension / John K. Davis.
Summary:
"As one enters and progresses through old age, one experiences various unwelcome changes. One suffers declines in most physical abilities as well as in certain cognitive capacities; one becomes physically less attractive - or, perhaps, more unattractive; one's friends and loved ones succumb with increasing frequency to illness and death, leaving one submerged in grief and loneliness; and the familiar world one has known continues to recede into a past that few remember. Perhaps worst of all, the goods of life that remain in prospect are few, and rapidly become ever fewer"-- Provided by publisher.
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