One who truly discovers and lives the experience of powerlessness and solitude does not remain alone. Only one who has experienced powerlessness to its depths,and hence personal solitude, feels close to others and is easily drawn to them. Like someone lost, without shelter in a storm, he or she feels his or her cry at […]
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… Benedict XVI in a recent television interview answers a mother’s question about the state of her comatose son’s soul … … Certainly his soul is still present in his body. The situation, perhaps, is like that of a guitar whose strings have been broken and therefore can no longer play. The instrument of the
Jesus’ Resurrection points beyond history but has left a footprint within history. Benedict XVI – Jesus of Nazareth: Holy Week p. 274
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Derek Doyle in his book The Platform Ticket … Perhaps it is only when you have worked in a hospice that you truly appreciate … that it is not death which people fear but the manner of dying, whether it be the pain or the fear or, we are often told, the loneliness. Let me
… at “Ask Medicare” … for those who care for the elderly with serious illness.
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Theodore Géricault portrayed a series of psychiatric patients, performing introspective studies with almost scientific features, as required by the customer, who intended to use these paintings for educational purposes. Gericault painted real portraits, characterized by a deep analysis of man’s psychology, even though in the 19th century portraits were destinated only to important clients. This
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… “Maybe those two years when I was sick make a difference … I was grateful to God for all the good things He’d given me – my family, growing up in this country with so much opportunity, my good health, my education, my faith – and I was determined to be worthy of them,
… in a recent conference Diane Meier discusses her experience re assisted suicide … transcript of key passage … video of her entire talk … “And as I got a bit older and had more experience taking care of patients and families, and realizing autonomy was not really relevant to the human condition – We
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Do not go gentle into that good night, Old age should burn and rave at close of day; Rage, rage against the dying of the light. Though wise men at their end know dark is right, Because their words had forked no lightning they Do not go gentle into that good night. Good men, the
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