Abstract
Abstract This chapter offers an account of meaning and how it is related to welfare or well-being. Meaning and welfare are not the same thing, as some things help make life worth having without conferring meaning on it, but what gives life meaning makes it better. The account of meaning defended here is achievementism, according to which the meaning of one’s life consists in achieving the things one devotes it to. The chapter also clarifies what it is for death to have meaning. The meaning of life stands in opposition to that of death and vice versa. Other things being equal, what gives one’s life positive meaning gives one’s death negative meaning. The reverse is true as well: what gives death positive meaning gives life negative meaning.
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