Death - 4/22/2016 - Wayne Hepler

Required reading material for the discussion is:

Catechism of the Catholic Church:
PP 396-421: Origin of death.
PP 998-1060: Christian understanding of death.
PP 2299-2301: Respect for the dead.
PP 1680-1690: Christian funerals.

Modern Perspective on Death:
April 2016 National Geographic:
Page 30-F: "The Crossing"
Page 53-F: "Where Death Doesn't Mean Goodbye"

Links

http://www.vatican.va/archive/ENG0015/__P1C.HTM

http://www.vatican.va/archive/ENG0015/__P2H.HTM

http://www.vatican.va/archive/ENG0015/__P80.HTM

http://www.vatican.va/archive/ENG0015/__P5A.HTM

http://www.nationalgeographic.com/magazine/2016/04/dying-death-brain-dead-body-consciousness-science/

http://www.nationalgeographic.com/magazine/2016/04/death-dying-grief-funeral-ceremony-corpse/

Unanswered questions:  

What interventions to prolong life are ethical?

Don't line people up on a continuum from Bad to Good.  only leads to trouble.