Do You Believe That the Question of Whether Our Lives

Essay

Do you believe that the question of whether our lives have meaning can be settled merely by appealing to events that occur during the--or could events that occur after our lives affect their meaning? For example, suppose that a person spent her life writing a novel that her friend promised to publish posthumously, but as soon as she died her friend destroyed it. Would the posthumous destruction of her work affect the meaning of the novelist's life in any way? Argue for your view here.