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In Tuck Everlasting, Natalie Babbitt tells the story of ten-year-old Winnie Foster, who is about to drink from a spring in her family's wood, but is suddenly kidnapped by the Tuck family. They explain that they all drank from that spring 87 years ago and stopped aging. "If you'd had a drink of it today, you’d stay a little girl forever.” Some philosophical thought experiments help us decide if a certain attitude we have towards something is appropriate. Most of us lament our own mortality and fear death. But would an endless life be worth living?

Publication Date

2026

Publisher

Institute for the Advancement of Philosophy for Children

City

Montclair

Keywords

death, mortality, philosophy for children, thought experiments

Disciplines

Education | Philosophy

Comments

This review was originally published in Thinking: The Journal of Philosophy for Children 2(3-4): 95, 1980.

<em>Tuck Everlasting</em> (1976) by Natalie Babbitt

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