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Whitman writes that for the man of faith, "no greater honor exists than for a man to die for his convictions." Several paragraphs later he sums up the nature of the cynic, who, without the aid of faith, is "reduced to a mere animal groping after the desires of the flesh." What we have here is animality versus spirituality. Whitman's reductionism is unfair to both faith and cynicism...
...might remember that Jesus was spirit made flesh, one might emphasize, contrary to Whitman, His incarnation over His sacrifice. To speak on Peninsula's own terms, one might advise Whitman that it is better to live a Christ-like life than to die for a cause. Religion is not nearly so far off from earthly cynicism as Whitman would have us believe...
...Dreams die hard and we watch them erode / But we cannot be denied the fire inside. Bob Seger...
America has produced grand drama in crime for decades. But only when the deceased are famous or near famous are the internal fires of fear and grief stoked. The death of Ennis Cosby is a tragedy, unquestionably, but others will die similar deaths in Los Angeles, New York City, Washington. Will those deaths incite the nation to show outrage against violence? MICHAEL TIMOTHY WATERMAN Washington THE CITADEL ERUPTS AGAIN...
Throughout the debate over assisted suicide, it has been understood that a certain number of American doctors--between 7% and 9%, say researchers--have been willing to help desperate patients die, regardless of legal sanction. But a study in last week's New England Journal of Medicine provides a grim window into the revised norms of a plague community. A group led by clinical psychologist Lee Slome reports that in a survey of 118 San Francisco-area physicians working with AIDS patients, 53% indicated (via an anonymous, self-administered questionnaire) that they had knowingly prescribed a deadly dose of narcotics...