Sentences with phrase «human face of the death»

Riding the publicity wave of Brittany Maynard, a young woman who suffered much and became the human face of the death - with - dignity movement, they have redefined compassion as respect for a patient's autonomous determination of the time, location, and method of death.

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I suffered a terrible car accident... during 3 weeks I almost died «many times»... Now I can read a beautiful article like this one and agree with it... Believe me... no matter your faith, your fortune or whatever you may be involved with... on the face of death if you are human you will only care about your loved ones... you will remember about the moments you were happy together and dream they happen again... you will remember your childhood like you were 7 again... you will ask forgiveness and try to show your love, no matter how hard you are... In the face of death we realize that nothing more then our family matters... For the professor, once his life of arrogance reaches an end, he will then understand what is the meaning of family...

Hope amidst suffering, hope when men know only defeat and despair, hope when death seems to smother out the shoots of life springing from the hearts of men, hope for our society, our world, our city, our schools, courts, prisons, legislatures, hope for our children, for our elderly, hope for all the millions of men and women over the face of this globe who simply want to live out their lives as free human beings not trampled down and stepped on by the overlords of this world.

Flannery O'Connor's novel The Violent Bear It Away does suggest a more satisfactory relation for human beings between the ordinary and the transcendent though it is, on the face of it, a very strange one indeed.19 Her novel is about a fourteen - year - old boy, Francis Tarwater, who, after the death of his great - uncle, a self - proclaimed prophet, goes to his uncle Rayber in order to fulfill the Lord's «call» that he, Tarwater, baptize Rayber's young idiot son.

For Lutheran Christians, such despair in face of the universal and radical human predicament can only be overcome through the gospel, which announces forgiveness of sins and redemption of life under the conditions of an ambiguous world chained by sin and death.

I was struck yesterday while I was preparing my cartoon on the death of Brennan Manning that he called Jesus «the human face of God».

Face to face, two human beings in love become locked in an embrace of deFace to face, two human beings in love become locked in an embrace of deface, two human beings in love become locked in an embrace of death.

If refusal to face squarely the fact of death is found so widely in these days, so also is loss of belief in a continuation of human existence, beyond death, in what used to be called the «after - life» It is indeed true that among conventionally - minded church - people and many others there is a vague feeling that when the body dies the «soul» goes on.

A possible real connection with the animal kingdom is itself of relatively little theological importance, for anything in it that would be important for the theological interpretation of human life in the present, can also be known without it, that is to say, the vulnerability of man in face of the powers of this earth, man's temptation to see himself from the point of view of his animality, his liability to death, man's dynamic orientation and task of developing to his perfection from below upwards, beyond his beginnings.

There are four affirmations about Jesus Christ that historically have been stressed in Christian faith: (1) Jesus is truly human, bone of our bone and flesh of our flesh, living a human life under the same human conditions any one of us faces — thus Christology, statement of the significance of Jesus, must start «from below,» as many contemporary theologians are insisting; (2) Jesus is that one in whom God energizes in a supreme degree, with a decisive intensity; in traditional language he has been styled «the Incarnate Word of God»; (3) for our sake, to secure human wholeness of life as it moves onward toward fulfillment, Jesus not only lived among us but also was crucified for us — this is the point of talk about atonement wrought in and by him; (4) death was not the end for him, so it is not as if he never existed at all; in some way he triumphed over death, or was given victory over it, so that now and forever he is a reality in the life of God and effective among humankind.

Human personality and culture are inherently about the denial of death, about helping the human animal achieve day - to - day equanimity in the face of our existential burden and helping us manage our instinct for self - preservation in the face of a cognitive awareness that we are bound for death, that we can not run away or escape our Human personality and culture are inherently about the denial of death, about helping the human animal achieve day - to - day equanimity in the face of our existential burden and helping us manage our instinct for self - preservation in the face of a cognitive awareness that we are bound for death, that we can not run away or escape our human animal achieve day - to - day equanimity in the face of our existential burden and helping us manage our instinct for self - preservation in the face of a cognitive awareness that we are bound for death, that we can not run away or escape our fate.

The Christian tradition has never sought to evade the reality of human death, neither has it been remiss in calling the attention of believers to their own mortality and the importance of their being prepared to face this inescapable fact.

Perhaps it is our inability to face the prospect of our own death, our own intimate participation in the ways of nature, that causes us to be uncomfortable with killing animals to meet human needs.

The death - of - God myth symbolically articulates, from within the Christian perspective which is my religious framework, my own inability any longer to affirm anything more in the way of grace and love than the human faces and voices and bodies around me, those persons with whom I enter into relationships of various kinds and intensities and patterns of communion and brokenness.

What that sentence did, however, was to make me starkly conscious of the fact that not only do men die but that I, in my concrete actual human existence, faced death too.

The easy dismissal of death, or the assertion that «for those who believe, there is no death», is taken to be, what it often is, an easy evasion of the dread reality itself — escapism, childish refusal to face facts, and above all (in our special interest) unwillingness to accept our human mortality.

It slips up on a self - aware human being whenever he becomes conscious of his fragile position in the face of sickness, nature, fate and, ultimately, death.

As I see it, both the Epistle to the Hebrews and the Fourth Gospel (not to mention I Corinthians) provide evidence of the early church's insistence on human communion, even in the face of persecution and death.

It animated the vibrant pontificate of Pope St. John Paul II, from his anticommunist writings on human freedom in its relationship to truth, to assertions of universal human dignity in the face of the culture of death, as well as in his approaches to ecumenism and interreligious dialogue.

According to Peter Berger, moral outrage in the face of evil, courage in defiance of death, and trust in an underlying cosmic order are among the «prototypical human gestures» which can be interpreted as «signals of transcendence».

The physician tends to react to death exclusively as the alien intruder, whereas the pastor looks upon it as a part of the bundle of human existence — an inevitable dimension of the life process which is to be faced with realism and faith.

All human beings face death as an inevitable destiny, but those of us who are crippled by heart disease or cerebral injury or other illness are more conscious of this destiny, particularly as we advance in years.

This week's video put a human face on the power of the culture of death.

If this type of therapy proves safe in humans, a syringe full of oxygen microbubbles could help avert brain damage and death for the victims of cardiac arrest, asthma attacks, strokes, and injuries to the lungs, airway, or face.

Fear of death is a fundamental part of the human experience — we dread the possibility of pain and suffering and we worry that we'll face the end alone.

Mowgli discovers that his life is in danger because of the return to the area of Shere Khan the Tiger (voice of George Sanders), whose hatred of humans is such that Mowgli faces certain death if discovered.

«Killing Ground» is primal and nerve - shredding, a savvily constructed horror film of very real human monsters and innocent victims staring death in the face.

... what I'm saying is that if we and all the other species on earth are the only life forms in the universe and if there are no gods and let's face it apart from a few tired scrolls written 300 years after the death of Jesus and his disciples there is no actual proof of a God or gods then we, the humans, who are meant to be at the height of the evolutionary tree, are in fact at the bottom because no other species on this planet is enslaved to the economy.

- Publishers Weekly «Best - selling, reliably entertaining, and thought - provoking Picoult's newest multifaceted novel is redolent with elephant lore that explores the animals» behavior when faced with death and grief, and combines a poignant tale of human loss with a perplexing crime story that delivers a powerhouse ending.»

She puts a human face on statistics ranking breast cancer as the second leading cause of cancer deaths in women in the United States.

The nation's homeless pups — five thousand of them, some estimate — face horrific conditions and often, violent deaths, sometimes at human hands.

Gynaecological instruments superimposed on the surface of the works disrupt traditional Romantic readings and imply a desire for human intervention in the timeless cycles of birth and death... [Kiefer] has been criticised for being theatrical... Yet in this increasingly frightening and unfettered world we need artists like Kiefer... who are prepared to face what is tragic rather than endlessly celebrating what is glib, slick and ephemeral.»

Annet Gelink Gallery, «What's New», Amsterdam, Netherlands Boutique Céline, Avenue Montaigne, «Les Années Fatales», Paris, France Gallery Thaddaeus Ropac, «Next Generation: Heavenly Creatures», Salzburg, Austria The Dreamland Artist Club, «Creative Time in conjunction with a public project for Coney Island redevelopment», New York NY Kunsthaus Baselland, «Strategies of Desire», Basel, Switzerland Le Confort Moderne, «Out of Bounds», Poitiers, France Annet Gelink Gallery, «The Human Face is an Empty Force, a Field of Death», Amsterdam, Netherlands

sculpted ai weiwei by he xiangyu lies face down on the ground (above) the death of marat, 2011 fiberglass, silicone, fabric, human hair and leather image © designboom

Instead of viewing refugees as a «problem,» a number, or — more tragically — a death count, Castro Garcia creates work that humanises them and puts faces and human stories into each image.

Mr. Oliveira strayed from the human figure from time to time but always returned, with startling intensity in works like «Standing Figure» (1970), a pink female figure turned toward the viewer with a ghostly white death mask instead of a face.

It's a lesson that seems to demand relearning every few years: For all the talk of figurative painting's death in the face of technology and newer movements, the human body will never cease to fascinate, nor will artists ever stop tinkering with it.

Fascinated by man's creativity in the face of inevitable death, the art he collects is to do with human frailty and finality, and focuses on the human body.

Existential psychotherapy is concerned mainly with the individual's ability to preserve a sense of meaning and purpose throughout the lifespan in the face of immutable biological limitations of a mortal existence (ie ageing, death) and issues associated with human self awareness (ultimate aloneness, having sole responsibility for our actions, choices and freedom).

Terror - management theory proposes that humans face a unique psychological conflict: we desire to live but realize the inevitability of death, which induces terror that we alleviate by ensuring immortality through cultural (e.g. belief in an afterlife) and biological (e.g. reproducing) means [5,6].