Tag: dying well
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“I have taken care of so many patients who arrived at their life’s end completely unprepared. They haven’t considered the many decisions they might be asked to make about end-of-life medical interventions. They aren’t familiar with the benefits and harms of things like CPR or mechanical ventilation ……. They haven’t…
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+ Ars Moriendi, death, dying well, living well, medicalization of death, Mors Improvisa, sacred secular+
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I’m going to quote a number of medical professionals in this post. Our determination to live longer and healthier has meant that we have also forgotten how to die well. “There seems to be an epidemic of medical overtreatment spreading across the world. Sometimes it seems to be driven by…
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Why do Christians die if death is the consequence of sin but our sin is forgiven? Death is the consequence of sin: But in Christ, Christians are forgiven their sin: Why then do Christians die if death is the result of sin but their sin is forgiven? Answer: Christians die…
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Ars Moriendi – Historians estimate that up to two-thirds of Europe’s population died during the Bubonic plague that decimated Europe in the Middle Ages. Deaths included clergy and other spiritual authorities. With so much death, there weren’t enough clergy to attend to the dying and bury the dead. Thus, the…
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Christian Apologetics 