> So, we judge retrospectively, but we do not call the dead > happy; we say that their lives were or were not happy, and > as Wittgenstein says, death is not an event in life; we do > not live to experience death. Maybe. But this is an interestg view of W's apercu: I had his thought was more general: for one, we do live to experience death (not it's after-affects, obv.). He didn't say "Being dead is not an event in life". He was talking about the metapys. of experience and what can or cannot be said about them. D ------------------------------------------------------------------ To change your Lit-Ideas settings (subscribe/unsub, vacation on/off, digest on/off), visit www.andreas.com/faq-lit-ideas.html