Sentences with phrase «visions of dying people»

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If this is true, then only the vision of the eschatological banquet could be an image of the good, whereas the image of dying for the other — though it is the advent of the good in fallen time — can not itself be the final good, without once more subordinating the person to an impersonal totality, in this case an abstract moral principle.

I prefer a more primitive conception of heaven, a heaven that is concrete, peopled, concatenated, hierarchical and symphonic; as lush as the pure land of the celestial Buddha Amitabha, as visceral as the Islamic garden of the houris, as engrossing to an academic like me as the rabbinic vision of heaven as a Talmudic house of study, and as immediate as the paradise that Christ promised to the good thief dying at his side.

After all, the team - oriented focus of hospice — in which doctors, nurses, chaplains and social workers join forces together in caring for dying persons and their families — draws its animating vision from the Christian tradition.

For a fine exposition of the process - relational vision, appropriating the insights of psychology, and concrete in its orientation, dealing with the issues of death and dying, loss and bereavement, see Kinast, Robert L., When a Person Dies: Pastoral Theology in Death Experiences (New York: The Crossroad Publishing Company, 1984); also by the same author, an excellent delineation of the major tenets of process thought and process theology in particular, is «A Process Model of Theological Reflection» The Journal of Pastoral Care 37 (June, 1983), pp. 144 - 156.

With the support of a few volunteers at the time that Neil died, Cameron took on the challenge of creating what NSF says was a vision of «a time when technology would allow people who just happened to be in wheelchairs to have the same choices, opportunities, and quality of life as any other person.»

In her book, The Top Five Regrets of the Dying, Bronnie Ware, a hospice nurse, writes of the phenomenal clarity of vision people gain on their deathbed.

With the possible exception of WALL - E's depiction of our planet as a depopulated trash heap, this is perhaps Pixar's bleakest vision, a world in which one dies not once but twice, the second time from a collective disregard for a person's very existence.

He had had a vision that he would die soon, at the hands of his own people.

Doomsday handles it a little better, peppering the story with moments where Rufus seems to have learned from his future visions, but ultimately by time the ending comes around it still doesn't feel like he's anywhere near being the kind of person who would willingly die to save everyone else, even his beloved Goal.