Re: cruzan v schiavo what a difference a decade makes

Personally I am confused and curious about a topic that was brought up, and
that is, what is the relationship between the body, the brain and the soul.
I have been dealing with this issue for the past 15 years or so, and still
have no clue about where the soul resides, when it leaves the body, what
does it mean to be a person, and what does it mean to die for that matter.

I will read some Polkinghorne as Wayne suggested, but would be interested on
others thoughts about this too.
----- Original Message -----
From: "George Murphy" <gmurphy@raex.com>
To: "jack syme" <drsyme@cablespeed.com>; "Glenn Morton"
<glennmorton@entouch.net>; "'ASA'" <asa@calvin.edu>
Sent: Saturday, March 19, 2005 10:56 AM
Subject: Re: cruzan v schiavo what a difference a decade makes

> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "jack syme" <drsyme@cablespeed.com>
> To: "George Murphy" <gmurphy@raex.com>; "Glenn Morton"
> <glennmorton@entouch.net>; "'ASA'" <asa@calvin.edu>
> Sent: Saturday, March 19, 2005 10:34 AM
> Subject: Re: cruzan v schiavo what a difference a decade makes
>
>
>> George,
>>
>> Who makes these decisions, what to do if there is a conflict, when it is
>> appropriate to withdrawal, and what level of evidence is needed, has all
>> been "worked out" so to speak over the last 15 years or so.
>>
>> As far as I know each state has statutes addressing this. The debates
>> about this likely occured in your state legislature a few years ago, so
>> the time for just theoretical discussion has passed. Not that there is
>> still not any value to it, I am just saying that this has already been
>> discussed many times, and there is a lot of case history already behind
>> us.
>
> I'm aware that the legal issues have been dealt with - which of course
> doesn't mean that the law will never be changed. I was simply trying to
> make make the necessary distinctions between different - though of course
> related - issues.
>
> Though the legal standards are fairly well defined, the theological &
> ethical ones are not for many Christians, & for others their theological &
> ethical views are in conflict with the legal standards.
>
> Shalom
> George
> http://web.raex.com/~gmurphy/
>
>
Received on Sat Mar 19 13:17:52 2005