“Glorious is the power of the art of contradiction.”

You consistently contradict the status quo, but do you really understand the nature of the status quo ?

What point do you make other than the demonstration of your contrary nature?

Are you a noun or an adjective DD.

Dan

Diver Dan,

What are you raving about? I feel like you missed a post somewhere which explains why you are so frantic about aged care or the aged.

You accuse me of expecting people to fall into line but don't actually seem to know what this 'line' is or where I expected others to accept it.

As best I can work it out you seem to have erroneously concluded that youth suicide is caused by money spent on aged care....or something.

But perhaps the whole thing is the manic scream of the ignorant, since you are completely wrong about needed aged being "effectively excluded on the grounds of affordability". While its true that many aged care facilities require a payment many more others don't and places are 100% subsidised by the government. But what have the facts got to do with it when in manic rant mode, eh?

Having read all the comments made to your reflective piece, Don, I was not really surprised that none commented on the spiritual and religious dimension of living and dying. it is a reflection of the deep secularisation that has infected modern humanity - one that ultimately sees the futility of a life which ends without purpose - in death itself.

But perhaps this is the best time in our lives to regain that genuine sense of purpose in a faith that assures us that death is a new beginning. 'I am the way, the truth and the life' (Jn 14:16) that assures you that you were created by a loving God to spend an eternity with him. His resurrection is a sign to you, Don, that you are called to a new and life of eternal peace within the Kingdom of God with the blessed who have gone before you.

Even now, to pick up a copy of the Gospels and reflect on its eternal significance for you by understanding that you are called ultimately not to die - but to live with him who has loved you from all eternity. In faith, I hope you follow that way, and experience the rest and peace that all of us ultimately want. May our Lord, a merciful, loving, forgiving - and welcoming God - be with you at this significant time. Please be assured of my prayers.

Thank you Yuri.

Indeed, isn't this whole world God's waiting room?

"As a person sheds worn-out garments and wears new ones, likewise, at the time of death, the soul casts off its worn-out body and enters a new one." [Bhagavad-Gita 2:22]

mhaze

The article is headed “death and dying”.

My comment is exactly inside the bounds.

You don’t do “hysterical ” well!

Dan

Yuri

Do you miss the point of the Christian message. It is loud and clear, our own salvation (for the believer), is the coincidence of belief in the one and only purpose of it; “all “ praise to God!

Reading the Gospel of Thomas, (IE the book available to the early Christian Church, since removed), gives a clear insight into the journey here on earth. It clearly states that heaven and hell are here and now on earth: Death is the parting of the physical body and the entry of the spirit into a non physical realm.

Yuyutsu

What is your personal belief system, I’m lost trying to work it out for myself!

Dan