End of life care: What do religions say?

Do religions approve of end-of-life care? Or do they think that, like the LIverpool Care Pathway when it is badly implemented, it is too close to encouraging assisted dying because it odes not encourage continued artificial nutrition and hydration? A good BBC ethics article.

BBC Religion & Ethics – End of life care: What do religions say?.

Margaret Spufford – living is a creative act until you die

I’m a great fan of obituaries – one of the few aspects of newspapers that seem to see people as a whole. I met Margaret Spufford a few times when she and I were much younger and she was a lovely person. What her life illustrates is how living is a creative act until you die.

Margaret Spufford loved truth, loved people, loved to laugh – despite it all | Andrew Brown | Comment is free | theguardian.com.