Washington state recently followed Oregon’s lead in legalizing physician-assisted suicide. The Netherlands and Belgium have passed even broader laws allowing assisted suicide and limited euthanasia. These trends reflect an evolution in medical technology and culture surrounding death though they generate controversy about the meaning and significance of active control over the timing of one’s death. …
Speaker: SAMUEL BROWN
SL09332 Panel: Remembering the Longfellow Chapel
Participants will reflect on the meaning of the Cambridge Chapel situated on Longfellow Park just outside Boston. For generations of Latter-day Saints, this meetinghouse represented the center of their faith, spirituality, and community. Panelists will consider the meaning of sacred space, the role of undergraduate and graduate education in Mormon identity, the nature of Latter-day …
SL09332 Panel: Remembering the Longfellow Chapel
Participants will reflect on the meaning of the Cambridge Chapel situated on Longfellow Park just outside Boston. For generations of Latter-day Saints, this meetinghouse represented the center of their faith, spirituality, and community. Panelists will consider the meaning of sacred space, the role of undergraduate and graduate education in Mormon identity, the nature of Latter-day …
Knowing When to Say Goodbye: Mormonism and Medical Decision-making at the End of Life
Knowing When to Say Goodbye: Mormonism and Medical Decision-making at the End of Life This session will describe the history of LDS perspectives on medical care at the end of life and then move into open discussions about a variety of pressing issues related to quality and quantity of life, withholding life support therapies, and …
SL07154: JOSEPH SMITH’S KIRTLAND EGYPTIAN PAPERS: HIEROGLYPHS, THE SACERDOTAL GENEALOGY, AND THE ANTIDOTE TO BABEL
JOSEPH SMITH’S KIRTLAND EGYPTIAN PAPERS: HIEROGLYPHS, THE SACERDOTAL GENEALOGY, AND THE ANTIDOTE TO BABEL The Kirtland Egyptian Papers (KEP) have occasioned considerable controversy but have largely evaded substantive analysis. When properly understood in their historical context, the KEP present a pictographic hermeneutics of primal language (the one spoken in Eden), while they disclose an expanded …