{"id":113442,"date":"2019-09-25T00:06:15","date_gmt":"2019-09-25T07:06:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/admin.patheos.com\/blogs\/markshea\/?p=113442"},"modified":"2019-09-03T18:23:21","modified_gmt":"2019-09-04T01:23:21","slug":"a-canadian-reader-is-worried-about-some-developments-and-has-some-questions","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/markshea\/2019\/09\/a-canadian-reader-is-worried-about-some-developments-and-has-some-questions.html","title":{"rendered":"A Canadian reader is worried about some developments and has some questions"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<\/head>

They write:<\/p>\n

Green burial laws might not respect bodies<\/a><\/p>\n

With what is going on nowadays, my imagination is coming up with worrying scenarios. A year or two ago, a right-wing Canadian think-tank called the Fraser Institute came up with the report of a study about the savings for our health system that euthanasia might allow\u2026 They said that it was only a \u201ctheoretical\u201d study, but I am not so sure\u2026<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

It does not surprise me that the think tank is right wing.\u00a0 As the Trump Cult here in the States makes clear, it is the malignant right that is showing a more than passing interest in rubbing out the lebensunwertes leben<\/em><\/a>. It is only typical of them that they spent years lying about \u201cdeath panels\u201d in order to stop health care for poor people, projecting their own desire for the death of the weak on the culture war enemies.\u00a0 It\u2019s what they do.<\/p>\n

Not that libs can\u2019t back euthanasia too.\u00a0 We\u2019ve done it here in Washington and Oregon.\u00a0 At present, it not compulsory, which is the difference for what the Right Wing Freak Show want to do to undesirables.<\/p>\n

I can imagine a time when sick people will only be allowed a limited amount of time for getting better, and after that, as well as for old and\/or terminally ill people, euthanasia will become mandatory.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

So can I.\u00a0 It will be driven by what the privileged call \u201ceconomic necessity\u201d but it will really be due to greed just as all the present cruelty is.<\/p>\n

And then, those people\u2019s remains can be turned into compost \u2013 to protect the environment! What can you say about all this? I am a little worried.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

I don\u2019t worry about green funerals per se<\/em>, so long as the dignity of the body is respected.<\/p>\n

But I also have a question, something I have been wondering for some time. It seems, from what I hear and sometimes see in the media, that a lot of \u2013 probably \u2013 non-Christian people are now finding it somewhat romantic to disperse the ashes of their friends or relatives in various places, such as in rivers, or throwing them from an aircraft, or even putting some into small lockets to wear as jewelry, etc. I am wondering what is going to happen at the resurrection? Of course, I know that God can do anything, but I cannot help having a few concerns\u2026<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Nothing can effect the resurrection of the body.\u00a0 The overwhelming majority of people who ever lived, Christian or not, have completely disappeared, physically speaking.\u00a0 People have died in fires.\u00a0 Those who are buried vanish into the soil and nothing, not even their teeth, remains.\u00a0 The Church has no issues with cremation, so long as it is not done for the specific purpose of denying the resurrection.\u00a0 But that issue there is not that God cannot raise the cremated, but rather that the gesture harms the soul of the person denying the Resurrection.\u00a0 God is God and can do anything, including raising the body of the dead person whose atoms have been scattered to the four winds.\u00a0 On that score, you need have no worries at all.<\/p>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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