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The Oxford Handbook of Bioethics Steinbock, Bonnie, University at Albany, State University of New York Print publication date: 2009 (this edition) Print ISBN-13: 978-0-19-956241-1 Published to Oxford Handbooks Online: September 2009
14 Death is a Punch in the Jaw: Life-Extension and its Discontents doi:10.1093/oxfordhb/9780199562411.003.0015 Felicia Nimue Ackerman Abstract: Would Greatly Extended Life Benefit or Harm the Person Living It? – Would Greatly Extended Human Life Bring Some Other Sort of Harm? – Should Resources Be Allocated to Attempts to Extend Greatly the Maximum Human Lifespan?	Related Content in OHO 'Euthanasia and Physician-Assisted Suicide' in The Oxford Handbook of Practical Ethics
Felicia Nimue Ackerman is Professor of Philosophy at Brown University. Her essays on bioethics have appeared in the Hastings Center Report, Midwest Studies in Philosophy, Physician-Assisted Suicide: Expanding the Debate (Routledge, 1998), Ethical Issues in Modern Medicine (McGraw-Hill, 2002), and elsewhere. Her short stories on bioethical themes have appeared in Commentary, Mid-American Review, Prize Stories 1990: The O. Henry Awards (Doubleday, 1990), Clones and Clones: Facts and Fantasies About Human Cloning (Norton, 1998), and elsewhere. She is writing Bioethics Through Fiction, a book of essays and short stories, forthcoming in the Rowman & Littlefield series Explorations in Bioethics and the Medical Humanities. She writes a monthly column on higher education for The providence Journal.	Felicia Nimue Ackerman External web page