Word: euthanasia
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...heavy subject of euthanasia Urale next lent a winning mix of lightness and grace in her short Still Life (2001), which brought her more trophies, including top prize at the Montreal Film Festival. The filmmaker focused on an elderly white couple slowly drowning under the weight of illness, neglect from their children, and love for each other. But Urale's tenderness and respect for the aged (her camera caresses their wrinkled skin) are typically Samoan. More a cautionary tale than a call for euthanasia, "it hits a real nerve with people," the director says. "And particularly it reminds people...
...change fundamentally. Critics of the Church have pressed for a pope more open-minded to dissenting views, to views that differ from the orthodoxy that seems to be imposed from a Vatican out of touch with the wider world. Yet if the new pope consents to contraception, abortion, euthanasia, homosexual marriage, or any of the other issues on which it is behind the times, he will allow the doubt that is so pervasive in modern society to become institutionally embedded in the worlds oldest functioning religious body. This would be a mistake of monumental proportions, because one of the last...
...wrong, irrespective of the life circumstances of the individual and the benign intention underlying the act. In the case of Schiavo, the immediate cause of death was the withdrawal of nutrients. Allowing her to die that way may have set a dangerous precedent and moved humanity closer to accepting euthanasia. Joe McBride Dublin...
...moral matters, the Pontiff was not a man given to seeing complexities, fine distinctions, or shades of gray. His refusal to compromise on matters such as contraception, abortion, euthanasia, and homosexuality seemed something out of another age. Many thought—and still think—him to be an out of touch relic: the leader of an old and superstitious faith who will soon be forgotten by a more sophisticated society...
...social philosophy. His oft-repeated concept of the "dignity of the human person" defined person as a divine creation intrinsically inclined toward God and thus subject to divine laws best enunciated through the church. In his view, that dignity, which commenced at conception, was mortally affronted by contraception, abortion, euthanasia and the death penalty and wounded by war, anti-Semitism and the crushing debt repayments imposed upon poor nations. The pursuit of individual freedoms, untempered by moral teaching, meanwhile, would eventually lead to a "culture of death" corrosive to respect for family, for church and, eventually, for life. The West...