Aug
28
Pro-life and end-of-life issues
Filed Under Ethics, Resources, Ten Commandments
In my sermon on the 6th Commandment I urged those over the age of 60 to take a special interest in the future of pro-life issues, because their lives are “next in line” to be counted as worth “terminating” because of economic and social pressures. Such is the progression of the culture of violence and death around us. We must develop and apply a biblically informed view these issues which many of us face (or will face): living wills, medical directives, managed care, physician-assisted suicide, deciding when to discontinue treatment, talking to children about death, and helping the grieving.
Later in the day I remembered an oustanding resource that I want to recommend. In 1998, First Presbyterian Church of Jackson, Mississippi, the Christian Medical and Dental Society and Baptist Medical Center of Jackson sponsored a weekend seminar called Breathtaking Decisions. The seminar gathered physicians and other health care professionals, ethicists, theologians and pastors who delivered lectures on a wide range of end-of-life issues from a Christian perspective.
You can see the list of topics and speakers and find information on how to order individual lectures or the entire set from the library section of the First Church, Jackson web site. I would recommend purchasing the entire set. Click here.
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