At Bernard Dauenhauer's urging: "Would you or someone start a thread by making a link to Dudley Clendinen, The Good Short Life in yesterdays NYTimes Sunday Review. Clendinin suffers from Lou Gehrigs disease. He plans to commit suicide when he finds the suffering unbearable. On the surface, at least, there is something admirable about the assertive Stoicism of his way of dealing with his impending death.How might we who do not accept suicide make a case for our position? Part of whatever the new evangelization is must be finding a way to make a case for our opposition to suicide, even though we recognize the impending future that Clendinen faces.Generally, it strikes me that if we Catholics are to have a well developed approach to end-of-life issues, we must face up to issues such as who is our God and what does He ask of us when we have to deal with them, either in our own lives or in the lives of people that we care about."Here is the link: NYTimes Sunday Review