Article: Let church speak out on death, dying.(Column)

The century continues to be drenched in death. Increased population and sophisticated technology have facilitated mega death on a brutal scale. Back in the 1950s, there was much talk of collective neurosis in the aftermath of World War II and the atomic annihilations of Hiroshima and Nagasaki. People, it was said, had lost hope in the future. Living on the edge of the abyss, many gave themselves to short-term goals or hedonistic distractions.

While the threat of nuclear omnicide may have receded, we have recently witnessed genocide in the former Yugoslavia and in parts of Africa. We are over-familiarized with death on a massive scale, which yet we keep at a ...

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