“Dying well is part of living well and one day our society will surely recognize that. But I suppose we'll only know that we've reached that promised land on the day that the President of the Voluntary Euthanasia Society begins his address to the Annual General Meeting with the words: 'Tremendous news for the society. It's been our most successful year ever. So successful, indeed, that we now have no members at all.” KnowsYearsWellsPresidentSuccessfulLandDyingOne DayMembersNewsMeetingsAddressesOur SocietyAnnualsLive WellEuthanasiaPromised LandDying Well Author:Victor Lewis-Smith
“A society will be judged on the basis of how it treats its weakest members; and among the most vulnerable are surely the unborn and the dying.” DyingMembersTreatsBasesVulnerableJudgedUnborn Author:Pope John Paul II
“If you could read some of the stories that we had before us of parents of children dying of, let's say, bone cancer. Or people who dealt with family members drowning in their own bodies, in the end, suffering without any hope of modern medical science easing their pain or offering any comfort. With the absolute knowledge that they were going to die anyway. I can't quite comprehend how we could want those people to continue to suffer that extreme agony on the understanding that it is the will of a creator or some other philosophical concept.” PeopleIfsWantChildrenI CanEndsStoriesBodyPainSufferingDiesParentUnderstandingModernDyingComfortMembersConceptsAbsolutesPhilosophicalCancerCreatorExtremesBonesMedicalOfferingAgonyDrowningFamily MembersMedical ScienceChildren DyingBone Cancer Author:Kelvin Ogilvie
“I think at every moment in the last probably 100 years, when the institutional church had the opportunity to do the right thing, they did the wrong thing. They're a dying institution in many parts of the world because they refuse to ordain women or married people. And now they're a dying institution because some of their members did enormous harm to young people and instead of responding aggressively with humility, and with love, and with the confession of wrongdoing, they tried to spin it as though they were a political party, and that's just deplorable.” PeopleThinkingWorldYearsMomentsLastsYoungPoliticalOpportunityChurchPartyDyingHumilityMembersMarriedInstitutionsRefuseHarmEnormousRight ThingConfessionPolitical PartiesWrong ThingsRespondingWrongdoing Author:Anna Quindlen