tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-28189019.post6873305530495045534..comments2023-11-03T11:37:04.473+00:00Comments on nothing new under the sun: On leaving the dying in the darkbyron smithhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17938334606675769903noreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-28189019.post-12869801400676058592012-08-24T21:01:52.655+01:002012-08-24T21:01:52.655+01:00Guardian: On making a death plan.Guardian: <a href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2012/aug/24/peaceful-death-plan-it" rel="nofollow">On making a death plan</a>.byron smithhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17938334606675769903noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-28189019.post-29512218359951938592009-01-12T12:43:00.000+00:002009-01-12T12:43:00.000+00:00Ninja Clement - thanks for that quote; it really c...Ninja Clement - thanks for that quote; it really captures something profound in a culture that so often ignores death.<BR/><BR/>Death is funny isn't it? At once the most common of all experiences, universally experienced, and yet also profoundly "unnatural" in the light of the resurrection, which reveals it as an <A HREF="http://nothing-new-under-the-sun.blogspot.com/2006/12/byron smithhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17938334606675769903noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-28189019.post-37104234155404042102009-01-12T06:11:00.000+00:002009-01-12T06:11:00.000+00:00As the now late Richard John Neuhaus said of the o...As the now late Richard John Neuhaus said of the ordinariness of death:<BR/><BR/>"Death is the most everyday of everyday things. It is not simply that thousands of people die every day, that thousands will die this day, although that too is true. Death is the warp and woof of existence in the ordinary, the quotidian, the way things are. It is the horizon against which we get up in the morning andAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-28189019.post-50282805748215541262009-01-10T05:55:00.000+00:002009-01-10T05:55:00.000+00:00Of course, what really bugs me is that this common...Of course, what really bugs me is that this common disservice is a breach of medical ethics! I don't know why doctor-patient privilege is suddenly deemed irrelevant, but it irks me no end. <BR/><BR/>When somebody tries it on me, they'll hear about it!! ;-)<BR/><BR/>Meanwhile, thanks for the chance to vent...Anthony Douglashttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16277745466192451883noreply@blogger.com