Tag: Death
Stand against death Bill: MP
As attacks on the dignity of human life escalate in NSW, a State MP has launched an ePetition in the latest attempt to stop...
British lawmaker David Amess’s death ‘a painful loss,’ says cardinal
He is the second English lawmaker to be murdered in five years.
Fr John Flader: Palliative Care Advice
Time spent with the sick and dying is invaluable. You are truly “remaining” with them, comforting them, showing them the love of Christ, giving them hope.
Peak health group rejects dying bill
Catholic providers in Tasmania will resist proposed law
Catholic Health Australia has strongly rejected Tasmania's proposed euthanasia legislation and says its members in the state...
Dr Jeremy Bell: Are we really pacifists?
Last week in Terre Haute prison, IndiaCatechismna, three men were given lethal injections. Convicted murderers Daniel Lewis Lee, Wesley Ira Purkey and Dustin Lee...
Simcha Fisher: Words about death
We buried my father this month. He and my mother had bought plain Trappist coffins for themselves years ago, to spare us children the...
Margaret Somerville: Withdrawing artificial hydration and nutrition
Withdrawing artificial delivery of food and water to patients can be ethically complex
It can be unethical to withdraw artificial hydration and nutrition and doing...
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One of Australia’s leading news photographers Brendan Esposito has built a career out of running head-on into mayhem, and says much of what makes...
