“If Margaret Pabst Battin hadn’t had a cold that day, she would have joined her husband, Brooke Hopkins, on his bike ride. Instead Peggy (as just about everyone calls her) went to two lectures at the University of Utah, where she teaches philosophy and writes about end-of-life bioethics. Which is why she wasn’t with Brooke the moment everything changed.” — from the article.
In an excellent article in the Sunday New York Times magazine, writer Robin Marantz Henig profiles Brooke Hopkins and his wife Peggy Battin and how their life — and views of life — changed dramatically after a bicycle accident left Brooke a quadriplegic.
Both had what they thought were well-reasoned views on the right to die. Peggy, as a philosophy professor who teaches and writes about end-of-life care, found herself looking at the issues from a different perspective.
This week’s guest on the Seekers of Meaning Podcast is Dr. David Barile, Founder and Chief Medical Officer of Goals of Care Coalition of New Jersey (GOCCNJ), a non-profit organization dedicated to helping patients get the care they need and no less — and the care they want and no more. [Read more…]
Over almost forty years in the pulpit have given me ample ammunition for almost every imaginable inquiry. Sifting through all of those interrogations – some of them very formal and others closer to drive-by-shootings at [Read more…]
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