Broome, JohnGamlund, EspenSolberg, Carl Tollef2023-03-319780190921446http://hdl.handle.net/1885/287927A common intuition suggests that it is less bad for an infant to die than for a young adult to die. This is puzzling because the infant has more life ahead of her than a young adult, so it seems she loses more when she dies. Jeff McMahan (2002, 165–174) supports the common intuition and defends it by means of what he calls the “Time-Relative Interest Account” of the badness of death. I shall describe two possible interpretations of the Time-Relative Interest Account and raise a problem for each. Then I shall offer an alternative defense of the common intuition.application/pdfen-AU© Oxford University Press 2019critical levelgradual creationneutral levelrelative valuevalue of life201910.1093/oso/9780190921415.003.00082022-01-16