ABSTRACT
Dead people are legal troublemakers. Some philosophers find them so troublesome that they deny that there are any dead people. They think people literally 'go out of existence' when they die. Others think people continue to exist after death. But even those who think that people continue to exist after they die disagree about other important questions. There are some interesting things to note about persons, their bodies, and death on this view. First, note in the diagram that the person does not begin to exist until quite a while after the body began to exist. Baker thinks that the person begins to exist only when 'the first-person perspective' emerges.10 Something has the first-person perspective if it is able to conceive of itself as itself - it has a certain sort of reflective self image. Notice also that the person rectangle terminates well to the left of the spot where the body rectangle terminates.
