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Bernard N. Schumacher

Keywords: Tod, person, Körper, natürlicher Tod, Bioethik

The author discusses the definition of the so called personal death and maintains that the negation of the biological dimension of death – which follows from a dualistic lockean anthropology adopted by many contemporary bioethicists – represents a banalisation of human death. The author proposes a biological definition of human death entailing that the destruction of the body is identical with the death of the person. He then discusses the radicalisation of this biological death definition, which depersonalizes human death by reducing it to a simple natural dysfunctioning of the human organism (degrading it to a thing) and refusing to recopying it as a drama and an evil.

Deutsche Zeitschrift für Philosophie, Akademie Verlag

Print ISSN: 0012-1045
Volume: 56, 01/2008
Pages: 055 - 072

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