Life, death, and meaning : key philosophical readings on the big questions

Part I: The meaning of life. The meaning of life / Richard Taylor 
 The absurd / Thomas Nagel 
 "Nothing matters" / Richard Hare 
 Philosophy and the meaning of life / W.D. Joske 
 Philosophy and the meaning of life / Robert Nozick 
 The meanings of life / David Schmidtz 
 The meanings of lives / Susan Wolf --
Part II: Creating people. Whether causing someone to exist can benefit this person / Derek Parfit 
 Why not let life become extinct? / John Leslie 
 On becoming extinct / James Lenman 
 Why it is better never to come into existence / David Benatar --
Part III: Death. How to be dead and not care : a defense of Epicurus / Stephen E. Rosenbaum 
 The misfortunes of the dead / George Pitcher 
 Annihilation / Steven Luper 
 Some puzzles about the evil of death / Fred Feldman 
 Pre-vital and post-mortem non-existence / Frederik Kaufman 
 Why death is not bad for the one who died / David B. Suits --
Part IV: Immortality. Immortality : a letter / James Lenman 
 The Makropulos case : reflections on the tedium of immortality / Bernard Williams 
 Why immortality is not so bad / John Martin Fischer 
 "From here to eternity" : is it good to live forever? / Christine Overall --
Part V: Suicide. Of suicide / David Hume 
 Suicide and duty 
 Immanuel Kant 
 Suicide : a qualified defense / David Benatar --
Part VI: Optimism and pessimism. Optimism / Margaret A. Boden 
 Optimism and meaning / Samantha Vice 
 The sad truth : optimism, pessimism, and pragmatism / Bruce N. Waller 
 On the sufferings of the world / Arthur Schopenhauer.