"By ""the problem of mortality,"" I mean human concern about the fact of mortality: the fact that every human being dies within a limited time from birth. This concern generates a host of interesting philosophical questions, many of them very difficult. Below, I consider a few of these questions in a preliminary, unsystematic, and to a considerable extent speculative way. It is possible that contradictions lurk among my answers. If so, they represent a task for a later time-if there is one!"philosophymetaphysicsmortalitydeathsurviva
