Posts Tagged ‘motor neurone disease’

Mentors and abusers — a Catholic son’s story

Friday, April 19th, 2013

Brother Dennis of the Little Brothers of Mary, as they were originally known, was buried at a cemetery near Melbourne in March, 1992. His two families — the one he grew up with, and the clergy that he made his adult life with — were both present, and separate. The coffin lowered, the mourners were Read more

Life or death decision inspired by faith in God

Tuesday, April 9th, 2013

I read with great interest, and I hope empathy, the story about Beverley Broadbent ending her life. I think I can appreciate her choice to end her life while still able to enjoy living. But it is not a choice that I intend to make. It is, nevertheless, a choice that confronts me. I was Read more