ABSTRACT
Death can be bad for us because it can deprive us of additional good life, but coming into existence can never be bad for us because it is simply not possible (in the relevant sense of possibility) for anyone to have come into existence earlier than they did. An early death can deprive us of the biographical “thick personhood” that we care about and that we fear losing too soon. But even if a person could have been brought into existence earlier in a thin sense (i.e. the same human organism could have been brought into existence earlier), she could not have been brought into existence earlier with the same biographical thick personhood.
