End of Life
Ethics and Religion Talk: How to Counsel a Person Seeking Death, part 2
by (Rabbi David J.B...)
Submitted 02-01-2021 under OPINION
We began addressing this topic in last week’s column. Here are three additional responses. Linda Knieriemen, Senior Pastor at First Presbyterian Church in Holland, responds: “My counsel varies with the particular circumstance. It’s...
Ethics and Religion Talk: How to Counsel a Person Seeking Death, part 1
by (Rabbi David J.B...)
Submitted 01-25-2021 under OPINION
Father Kevin Niehoff, O.P., a Dominican priest who serves as Judicial Vicar, Diocese of Grand Rapids, responds: “This question is complex. What is not known is if the author is referring to euthanasia or the decision to ‘discontinue...
Ethics and Religion Talk: Does Medical Intervention Subvert God's Will?
by (Rabbi David J.B...)
Submitted 02-24-2020 under OPINION
Dr Sahibzada, the Director of Islamic Center and Imam of the Mosque of Grand Rapids, responds: “God has Absolute Knowledge and Absolute Authority of power over everything. He has created life and death to determine who does righteous deeds. No...
Ethics and Religion Talk: May One Allow One's Pacemaker Battery to Die?
by (Rabbi David J.B...)
Submitted 07-01-2019 under OPINION
From Jim V: There is an elderly patient under hospice care with a pacemaker, stable, not in distress or expected to die in the near future, lucid and oriented cognitively, and ambulatory without aid of a walker or wheel chair. His pacemaker’s...
Ethics and Religion Talk: The Charlie Gard Case
by (Rabbi David J.B...)
Submitted 09-05-2017 under OPINION
The parents wanted to take him out of the United Kingdom for treatment. The hospital took the parents to court to prevent them from doing so. Ultimately, he died at the end of July after additional court battles regarding the parents’ desire...
Dominicans of GR and Monastery of the Blessed Sacrament: Collaboration
by (grdominicans)
Submitted 09-14-2009 under NONPROFITS
Written by Sister Sue Tracy, OP Sent forth by the leadership team’s sung blessing, Sister Sue Tracy, OP, and Laurie Sefton, RN, headed to the Monastery of the Blessed Sacrament in Farmington Hills, Michigan July 29, 2009. The Dominican nuns had...