Ian Farrell Dr. Longo AP Language and Composition November 26, 2012 The Meaning of Life Despite what almost every major world religion has claimed, no one really knows for certain what happens after death. Some believe in a specific kind of afterlife. Some believe in reincarnation, and others believe in nothing but an abrupt and final end. Obviously, no one has managed to come back and inform the world who has the right answer. For this reason, we can define death only by what it is not.
Even being brain dead he is still Matthew. From Plato’s “defense” of existence of the soul, Melinda may use the fact that they should not tamper with Matthew’s soul. Of course, she would be speaking for a metapsychical stand point at the same time worrying about her own soul. Melissa would argue that Matthew is gone meaning there is no soul left. When he was no longer able to function on his own he was then just a shell.
Does our soul or spirit go to heaven or hell, do we get reincarnated, or does nothing at all happen? There are many different theories, but these questions will never have an answer. Many people don’t believe in suicide of any kind, God or whomever a person believes in will make the ultimate decision on when it is time to leave this earth. My parents raised me believing that suicide is selfish, and a coward’s way out. I still believe this, but on the other hand I also think physician assisted death is the humane thing to do for people who are suffering.
He will never leave them nor has he forgotten them. Overcoming the Disbelief In his book, The Great Divorce, Lewis provides a fictional account of conversion and a person's will and process to convert. "In these accounts, conversion is blocked until the potential convert decides that he will allow the redemption event to happen. They can all leave at any time, simply by returning the way in which they came. The ghosts must choose to stay in heaven, even after being met with their "mentors" or "servants”, spirits they knew from some point in their earthly lives and that knew their entire life story.
Physician Aid-In-Dying SOC120: Introduction to Ethics & Social Responsibility (ABK1121D) Date: June 20, 2011 Physician Aid-in-Dying Physician aid-in-dying will always be debated as long as there are conservatives on this earth. That statement is not made to instigate anger but as a reality factor. The taking of life is for God only. Therefore the issue of man assisting with the termination of life is controversial. One of the people who brought this issue to the forefront was Dr. Jack Kevorkian in the early 1990’s.
My view on the world was a selfish view. I didn’t care about current events, I thought school was lame and figuring you out was lame too. I put on more of a front than I actually really, truly believed in my heart. At church and youth, I wanted to seem like one of those really great, Godly, Christian girls you see around the church but I wasn’t, so I faked it. In March 2013, our close friend was put in the hospital under a coma for an unknown illness.
Although he became a licensed physician, Abe never practiced medicine. Instead he began writing professionally upon his father’s death once his family obligations were absolved (Lamont-Brown, 31 pp.1). Abe’s writing was strongly influenced by a number of factors including: a lack of patriotism, medical school, and famous writers of the time. He strongly opposed the war and the strong sense of nationalism that many of his countrymen held during end of the war. Abe felt that he had no obligations to his country for he was “rootless” (Lamont-Brown, 33 pp.2).
This chapter does not authorize euthanasia or any affirmative or deliberate act or omission to end life other than to permit the natural process of dying, including the withholding or withdrawing of life prolonging procedures under this chapter (FINDLAW.com). I do not agree with this law completely, hopelessly ill people who in the end will have to die in unbearable pain, wish to be freed from a life that has become a burden to them. They should not be compelled against their will to endure their meaningless suffering (Fenigsen, R. 2011). The government does not always think of how patients feel about the subject which is sad. Unfortunately the law that we follow is not made to think of how patients feel but how others will feel.
Hicks Replica Theory states that the soul cannot be separated from the body and at the point of death on earth, God creates an exact replica of that person in another space. They would look the same and have the same memories; however there are many problems with Hicks ideas. First of all it could be argued that if the replica has the same ‘consciousness, memory, emotion and, violation’ as the original it is then logically possible to identify the replica as the original. Further to this Bernard Williams argues that Hick’s portrayal of an endless life of replications would be a meaningless life. It might prove a boring
Descartes tried to prove that the thinking self is separate from the physical, through his statement, “I think therefore I am”. Plato was a dualist, as he believed that the soul existed in a realm of forms before coming into the body. He believed that the body has an affinity (understanding) with the earth and that the soul has an affinity with the eternal realm of forms. At death, he believed the body dispersed to the earth, and the soul returns to the realm containing the truths. Materialism, distinct from the other views of what constitutes human life, argues that there is no separate soul - the body is just matter.