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Honoring Life - Medical Ethics and Physician-Assited Suicide (Paperback) Loot Price: R343
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Honoring Life - Medical Ethics and Physician-Assited Suicide (Paperback): Sergei O. Prokofieff, Peter Selg

Honoring Life - Medical Ethics and Physician-Assited Suicide (Paperback)

Sergei O. Prokofieff, Peter Selg; Translated by Ann Walshe Willoughby

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This thought-, feeling-, and will-provoking book of reflections by Peter Selg and Sergei Prokofieff on the soul-spiritual, ethical, and medicaltherapeutic issues surrounding physician-assisted suicide (and suicide as such) takes its inspiration from both Rudolf Steiner and the ancient Greek Hippocratic Oath. Peter Selg begins by showing how, for Rudolf Steiner, the principle of life-as immanent spirit and the living medium of the "I" or individuality-is inviolable and wise beyond our reckoning. It is the sacred task of healing always to attend to, honor, and serve life in this sense: to affirm, enhance, and strengthen the life-forces of the sick. As Rudolf Steiner puts it: "The will to heal must always function as therapeutically as possible... even when one thinks the sick person is incurable." Though these words were spoken before the full consummation of materialist, technologically-enhanced medicine, Rudolf Steiner, as Peter Selg demonstrates, was well aware of the dangers of where medicine was heading. Sergei Prokofieff links the initiatory origins of Hippocratic medicine in the Mysteries with the return of the Mystery origin of medicine and healing in Anthroposophical medicine. Turning to Rudolf Steiner's spiritual research, he considers suicide as an "illness" of our time and examines the spiritual consequences of suicide for the after-death experiences of those who have taken their own life: namely, that suicide results in the soul's profound disorientation. He then goes on to show how suicide makes the after-death experience of Christ infinitely more difficult, as it does the "resurrection of the spirit" and the relation to the spiritual world. Far from being a "free" act, he concludes, suicide is quite the opposite. Anyone seeking insight into suicide will find here a profound and esoteric introduction to the problem.

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Imprint: Steinerbooks
Country of origin: United States
Release date: March 2014
First published: March 2014
Authors: Sergei O. Prokofieff • Peter Selg
Translators: Ann Walshe Willoughby
Dimensions: 220 x 140 x 5mm (L x W x T)
Format: Paperback
Pages: 86
ISBN-13: 978-1-62148-053-2
Categories: Books > Social sciences > Psychology > General
Books > Humanities > Religion & beliefs > Alternative belief systems > Syncretist & eclectic religions & belief systems > Post-renaissance syncretist / eclectic systems > Theosophy & Anthroposophy
Books > Religion & Spirituality > Alternative belief systems > Syncretist & eclectic religions & belief systems > Post-renaissance syncretist / eclectic systems > Theosophy & Anthroposophy
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LSN: 1-62148-053-4
Barcode: 9781621480532

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