What is a good death?

Question:Jeremy Bantham : Hedonistic Utilitarians, believe that a good death is a painless one.

John Stuart Mill: Eudaimonistic Utilitarians, believe that a good death is a happy death.

What do you think?

Best Answer - Chosen by Asker: Jeremy Bantham : Hedonistic Utilitarians, believe that a good death is a painless one.

John Stuart Mill: Eudaimonistic Utilitarians, believe that a good death is a happy death.

What do you think?

There aren't many people that are going to jump for joy when they get the news they are going to die tomorrow. Death isn't really happy, in my opinion. So I believe a good death is a painless one, like dying in your sleep. A bad death would be a very painful one like being stabbed with a pocket knife 200 times all over your body and then left in the street to die. Dying of a heart attack while you were asleep and weren't aware of it would be better. Then you would end on a peaceful not, not on a tragic one. No one really has parties when people are about to die or else hospitals wouldnt be so full.

Any honorable death. In battle is best.

Because we all have to die, all deaths are good ones.

No one who has died can come back and tell you any different. And anyone who is still living doesn't really know any better.

I think the pilots who hit the world trade center thought they had great deaths. I think a happy death with a going away party is best. Many Buddhist monks do that.

peace and love

no such thing, death is death

in my opinion............ a good death would be one that benefits or saves lives of others.
Of course I would go for the painless one if I had my choice.

a good death is painless, without fear, hesitation or regret.
a good death happens when the person dying is on good terms with everyone and understands that its not the end......something along those lines.

To me, a good death is not being murdered of any kind.

A good death is dying for something you believe in.
I have to agree with John Stuart Mill. A good death is a happy death.

A good death is any death that doesn't lead to life. Cry when a baby is born, rejoice at a funeral.

I would also prefer to be prepared for death.

dying in a strange place, alone and unloved, separated from my loved ones, is my greatest fear.
Pain of the body is insignificant compared to pain of the heart.
However, making my loved ones witness my years of excruciating pain due to illness or injury prior to my death is not how I want to be remembered.
For my loved ones, I want to die happy. For myself I need to be loved, to give my life meaning.

"Men in White Apparel," Ann Ree Colton,
"Testimony of Light," Helen Greaves, and
"The Path of the Higher Self," Mark Prophet, address this.

A good death is a death where you have prepared for it. You know you have done all you could have done with your life and now look towards passing on.

At the time of death, your passing will be painless and silent and you shall know your death will not be in vain because your actions in life will not be forgotten.

Knowing these things makes a good death. I believe one of philosophy's functions is it helps you prepare for death.

Think of Socrates death, how must he have felt? How did he prepare and what did he think when his followers saw him drink the poison.

can only be answered by the one who is dying mine would be with my family at my bedside knowing i am on my way to heaven