Abstract This article engages with the legal regulation of end-of-existence decisionmaking for novel beings, specifically assisted nonexistence such entities. The author explains concept a model death by reference to substantive features regimes in three jurisdictions which suicide or euthanasia is lawful. He considers how these models might fit beings who may require prefer assistance end thei...

Heidegger famously draws a distinction between the present-at-hand and the ready-to-hand, also sometimes known as the distinction between occurents and equipment. Some entities are ready-to-hand: they are tools, objects of use, cultural products, things of value and significance. Examples include hammers, doorknobs, books, can-openers, and pinball machines. Some entities are present-at-hand: am...

In ‘When Does a Human Being Die?’ Schofield et al. present a definition of death focused on the ‘final denouement’ of human beings as biological organisms. Their view is such that the moment of death occurs ‘when the last process in the collection of bodily processes that maintain homoeostasis finally cease[s]’. Whilst this definition avoids certain conceptual problems there are difficulties wi...