23.09.2019:
The medical doctor and philosopher Carl Tollef Solberg defended his doctoral degree at the University of Bergen on 16 January 2018. Among other things, he reflects on counterfactual lives. For whom is death worst? Those who die, the bereaved or society? Who do we cry for at funerals? Do we cry on our own behalf or on behalf of the deceased? A death can undoubtedly be negative for the bereaved, and grief can be an earth-shattering experience. The bereaved lose the opportunity to meet the deceased again, but above all, by dying, the deceased loses his/her own future, with all that it could have...