This essay has examined Paul's Epistle to the Philippians to examine how his letter, in the context of his time, may contribute to the discussion of the modern day, regarding assisted suicide in palliative care. This has mainly been done through a hermeneutical study of Philippians, specifically 1:21-1:27, 2:5-11 and 3:17-21. Additionally this study has utilised historical-critical methods to contextualise Paul's rhetoric and focusing on the idea of de-intoducring of the biblical text from the subsequent theological tradition and anachronisms. This essay has primarily been informed by Arthur J. Droge's article about the subject of suicide in Philippians (Mori Lucrum: Paul and the Ancient Theories of Suicide 1988), Linda Joelsson's book about Paul and the idea of death in the hermeneutical of psychology (Paul and Death - A Question of Psychological Coping 2017) and Karin B. Neutel & Peter-Ben Smits article about the likely conditions of his arrest while writing Philippians and the trauma of prison factors into the text (Paul, Imprisonment and Crisis 2021). The second chapter briefly examined the development of the theology of suicide since the time of St. Augustine and subsecuenty different modern day attitudes toward assisted suicide. The third chapter examined the occurrence and frequency of suicides in the Hebrew Bible and found a lack of moral condemnation of those who took their own lives. Thereafter the essay investigates the attitudes towards death and suicide in the jewish tradition, the Roman empire and finally the early christians. The fourth chapter examined the background of Philippians and the conditions of the imprisonmentand thereafter performed a exegetical investigation into the issue suicide in relation to the ideas of death and suicide of his time. The study showed that Paul expresses what can likely be interpretedas suicidal language in Philippians, but that Paul clearly rejects the idea in favor of performing hisapostolic duty. The essay concludes with a broader discussion on the idea of the challenges of interpretation, a comparison of Paul and the augustinian tradition in relation to suicde and the change in perception of the idea of the holiness of life in favour of personal autonomy. The answer to the main question of the study is that Paul's perspective in Philippians, may be valuable as a troubled and sympathetic christian role-model, a person who, when faced with the prospect of suicide, chooses life. Not because suicde is extraordinarily sinful, but does so for the sake of his chrisitan calling of living for his community. This seems to be a more contemporary and fruitful rhetoric, than the condemning tone of classic augustinian theology in the matter of assisted suicide.

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This study examines the dye plants in the Texas plains region and the extent of their dye-producing qualities. It describes the interest in handicrafts, lack of information on vegetable dyes in plains region, and a variety of other dye details.

This dissertation explores how late medieval and early modern English culture understood the possibilities of experience inherent within our dying moments. I argue that, rather than approaching the moment of death as exclusively terrible, unbearable, or meaningless, as some literary scholars have claimed, many could instead hope to find within such moments the opportunity for what Erasmus called “glimmerings”—new revelations, actions, and experiences of the world. I explore how the drama of Shakespeare and Marlowe investigates both the promises and illusions of the glimmering worlds cast up in one’s dying moments. This project draws on the thought of Hannah Arendt to elucidate the actions, forms of life, and worlds that can be undertaken and sustained in the circumstances of dying. In Chapter One, I uncover the late medieval roots of an association between dying moments and worldly awareness, expressed in fifteenth-century English texts such as Nicholas Love’s Mirror of the Blessed Life of Christ, Thomas Hoccleve’s Learn to Die, the morality play The Castle of Perseverance, and Desiderius Erasmus’s Preparation to Death. My second chapter argues that sixteenth-century ars moriendi texts such as Thomas Lupset’s Way of Dying Well, Thomas Becon’s Sick Man’s Salve, The Book of Common Prayer’s “Order for the Burial of the Dead,” and John Foxe’s Acts and Monuments each provide strategies of dying that preserve both self and world from the deteriorating force of mortality. Chapter Three moves from theological to dramatic inquiries into the moment of death, examining how Marlowe’s tragedies The Jew of Malta and Doctor Faustus scrutinize the risks of dying in conditions of exposure, in contrast with the sheltering protections of dying in a little room. My fourth chapter takes up Shakespearean tragedy to illustrate how King Lear evaluates and dramatizes the consequences of William Perkins’ Salve for a Sick Man, which contends that we are unable to undertake meaningful action in our final moments. In my last chapter, I show how Shakespeare’s late plays, Pericles and The Winter’s Tale, consider whether, in the presence of death, one can claim flourishing life and feel at home in the world.

Le Canada regroupe sous le terme « aide médicale à mourir » les pratiques de suicide assisté et d'euthanasie volontaire. Pratiques sujettes à débat à travers le monde depuis une vingtaine d'années, elles sont légalisées au Canada depuis 2016. En 2020, un projet de loi visant à modifier le Code criminel canadien sur les dispositions de l'aide médicale à mourir est proposé. Il est permis aux citoyens de défendre leur point de vue sur ce projet de loi. Par l'analyse de ces avis (appelés mémoires) et à l'aide de la méthodologie de la théorisation ancrée (grounded theory) formalisée par Glaser et Strauss en 1967 et reprise dans un article par Anne Laperrière (1997), trois figures du médecin praticien de l'aide médicale à mourir émergent. Il en ressort celle du médecin persécuteur qui a pour volonté de tuer les plus vulnérables, celle du médecin victime du système qui lui impose de violer son Serment d'Hippocrate et celle du médecin sauveur qui aide les plus souffrants à mourir, les sauvant, ainsi, de la maladie et de la souffrance.

京都大学 / 新制・課程博士 / 博士(理学) / 甲第24183号 / 理博第4874号 / 新制||理||1697(附属図書館) / 京都大学大学院理学研究科生物科学専攻 / (主査)准教授 足立 幾磨, 准教授 Huffman Michael Alan, 教授 今井 啓雄 / 学位規則第4条第1項該当 / Doctor of Science / Kyoto University / DFAM

Bakgrund: En akutmottagning kan vara en hektisk miljö där patientkategorin ofta är bred. Kritiskt sjuka samt döende patienter är en relativt vanlig företeelse på akuten. Dessa patienter och deras anhöriga är traditionellt sett mycket resurskrävande och i den hektiska miljö som är på akuten kan detta skapa en stor utmaning för sjuksköterskorna i deras omvårdnadsarbete. Syfte: Att beskriva sjuksköterskors erfarenheter av att möta kritiskt sjuka och döende patienter samt deras anhöriga inom akutsjukvården. Metod: En allmän litteraturstudie som följde Polit & Becks niostegsmodell. Sökning av studier skedde i databaserna CINAHL och PubMed. Data analyserades med Graneheim & Lundmans kvalitativa innehållsanalys. Resultat: De två kategorierna Praktiska utmaning och psykosociala utmaningar kom fram i resultatet. Fem subkategorier framkom också: Högt tempo på akuten, Utmaningar i miljön, Anhörigas reaktioner, Att kunna bearbeta egna känslor samt Trygghet i den egna förmågan.  Slutsats: Sjuksköterskor upplever mötet med kritiskt sjuka och döende patienter och deras anhöriga som en av de mest utmanande arbetsuppgifterna de har när de jobbar på en akutmottagning. Mer forskning krävs för att förstå hur arbetsbelastningen samt den känslomässiga belastningen som sjuksköterskorna på akutmottagningar upplever i relation till detta möte skall kunna minska. / Background: The emergency department can be a hectic environment where the patient population often is very wide. Patients who are critically ill or dying is a relatively common occurrence in the emergency departments. These patients and their families are traditionally very resource demanding and in a place like the emergency department where the environment already is hectic this can create a big challenge for the nurses in their nursing work.  Purpose: To describe nurses' experiences of meeting critically ill and dying patients and their family in emergency healthcare. Method: A general literature study that followed Polit & Beck's nine-step model. Article searches were conducted in the CINAHL and PubMed databases. Data were analyzed using Graneheim & Lundman’s qualitative content analysis.  Results: The two categories Practical challenge and Psychosocial challenges emerged in the results. Five subcategories belonging to these were: High pace in the emergency department, Challenges in the environment, Relatives reactions, Being able to process one's own emotions and Confidence in one's own abilities. Conclusion: Nurses experience the meeting with critically ill and dying patients and their family as one of the most challenging duties while working in the emergency department. More research is required to understand how the workload and the emotional toll that nurses in the emergency department experiences in relation to this meeting will be able to lighten.

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