Nagel follows the view that death is “timelessly bad” for the one who dies, considering death as an evil which deprives one of the benefits of living. This key assumption within Nagel’s notion links closely with the view of Marquis, who believes that killing a human being deprives one of the value of our future, what we have now and what we possibly could have had. Similarly to Nagel’s view on death, Marquis looks at a future-like-ours argument: depriving a being of a future like ours makes killing wrong, and killing a foetus deprives it of a future like ours, so therefore killing a foetus is wrong. However, Nagel considers some objections within his assumption. His first question proposes how deprivation of life can be evil unless someone