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  1. Dale Dorsey, “The Significance of a Life’s Shape,” Ethics 125 (2015): 304.

  2. See Fred Feldman, Pleasure and the Good Life (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 2004), pp. 124-141.

  3. Dorsey, op. cit., pp. 313-314.

  4. Ibid., p. 330.

  5. Ibid., pp. 304-305.

  6. Ibid., p. 312.

  7. J. David Velleman, The Possibility of Practical Reason (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2000), p. 61.

  8. Ibid., p. 62.

  9. Ibid., p. 63.

  10. Jeff McMahan, The Ethics of Killing (New York and Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2002), p. 175.

  11. Ibid.

  12. Elizabeth Anderson, Value in Ethics and Economics (Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1993), p. 24.

  13. Ibid., pp. 34-35.

  14. Douglas Portmore, “Welfare, Achievement, and Self-Sacrifice,” Journal of Ethics and Social Philosophy 3 (2007): 22.

  15. Ibid., p. 13.

  16. Ibid., p. 22.

  17. Robert Nozick, The Examined Life (New York: Simon & Schuster, 1989), p. 100.

  18. Ibid.

  19. F.M. Kamm, “Rescuing Ivan Ilych: How We Live and How We Die,” Ethics 113 (2003): 222.

  20. Ibid., p. 223.

  21. Ibid.

  22. Johan Brannmark, “Goods and Lives: Parts and Wholes,” American Philosophical Quarterly 38 (2001): 226.

  23. Antti Kauppinen, “Meaningfulness and Time,” Philosophy and Phenomenological Research 84 (2011): 371.

  24. Ibid., p. 346.

  25. Ibid, p. 349.

  26. Ibid., p. 350.

  27. Ibid.

  28. Ibid.

  29. Dorsey, op. cit., p. 310.

  30. Ibid., 312.

  31. Ibid.

  32. Ibid., 311.

  33. Ibid., 330

  34. Ibid.

  35. Galen Strawson, “Against Narrativity,” Ratio 17 (2004): 433.

  36. Ibid., pp. 432-433.

  37. Alan Goldman, “Meaningful Lives,” in Robert B. Talisse and Maureen Eckert, eds., A Teacher’s Life: Essays for Steven M. Cahn (Lanham, MD: Lexington Books, 2009), p. 39.

  38. Todd May, A Significant Life: Human Meaning in a Silent Universe (Chicago/London: The University of Chicago Press, 2015), pp. 65-66.

  39. Ibid., p. 66.

  40. Ibid.

  41. See Ben Bradley, Well-Being and Death (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 2009).

  42. See Ed Diener, Derrick Wirtz, Shigehiro Oishi, “End Effects of Rated Life Quality: The James Dean Effect,” Psychological Science 12 (2001): 124-128.

  43. Bradley, op. cit., p. 160.

  44. Ibid.

  45. John Martin Fischer, “Free Will, Death, and Immortality: The Role of Narrative,” in Exploring the Meaning of Life, ed. Joshua W. Seachris (Chichester, England: John Wiley & Sons, 2013), p. 449.

  46. Ibid., p. 458.

  47. Dorsey, op. cit., p. 312.

  48. Ibid., pp. 312-313.

  49. Fred Feldman, op. cit., p. 141.

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Vitrano, C. What Does the Shape of a Life Tell Us About Its Value?. J Value Inquiry 51, 563–575 (2017). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10790-017-9594-9

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