Questions of mortality
Words offer insight to ailing pope's mind-set
"Even in the frailty of the last hour," the pontiff said at Rennweg Hospice in Vienna, "human life is never meaningless or useless." His address that June afternoon in 1998 went largely unnoticed. But now -- with the 84-year-old pontiff confined to a hospital room and facing post-surgery speech therapy -- his past encyclicals, letters and messages on the sick and suffering resonate with new meaning."Suffering, old age, the unconscious state, the imminence of death do not lessen the person's intrinsic dignity" ...Click on Title for Pope article.
The timeline in the case of Terri Schiavo, who has been at the center of a protracted legal battle between her husband and parents over the husband's attempts to remove her feeding tube: Timeline (Case History)
"Even in the frailty of the last hour," the pontiff said at Rennweg Hospice in Vienna, "human life is never meaningless or useless." His address that June afternoon in 1998 went largely unnoticed. But now -- with the 84-year-old pontiff confined to a hospital room and facing post-surgery speech therapy -- his past encyclicals, letters and messages on the sick and suffering resonate with new meaning."Suffering, old age, the unconscious state, the imminence of death do not lessen the person's intrinsic dignity" ...Click on Title for Pope article.
The timeline in the case of Terri Schiavo, who has been at the center of a protracted legal battle between her husband and parents over the husband's attempts to remove her feeding tube: Timeline (Case History)
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