IX.

"It's as though we've been assuming, and I have been assuming up to this moment, that being alive per se has no value. It's — life itself is a container which we fill with various goods or bads. And deciding how valuable it is, how good it is for me to be alive is a matter of adding up the value of the contents of the life. But the container itself is a mere container. It has no value in and of itself."

© Shelly Kagan
Yale Lectures on Philosophy of Death, 2007