Arrivederci Randy, spero di incontrarti in Paradiso!
Guadagnate 10 minuti! Guardate la "lezione di vita" di Randy Pausch che ha tenuto allo "Oprah Winphrey Show", e versate senza vergogna qualche lacrima. La vita è meravigliosa e va vissuta intensamente in ogni situazione, attimo e contesto. Riflettiamo e poi chiediamoci se è giusto sopprimerla arbitrariamente!
IL VIDEO DEL DISCORSO HA SPOPOLATO IN RETE ED E' DIVENTATO UN LIBRO
È morto Randy Pausch, commosse il mondo con la sua «Ultima lezione»
Docente alla Carnegie Mellon University di Pittsburgh, era malato di cancro. A settembre l'addio ai students
WASHINGTON - In his "Last lecture" Professor Randy Pausch, who taught computer science at Carnegie Mellon University in Pittsburgh, said he did not want to be pitied and not wanting to talk about death, but life . He, 47 years and three children, died of pancreatic cancer that has spread despite treatment his body beyond repair. The final lecture to his students, held in September, was recorded and - networking - was a resounding success. Pausch talks about the dreams of childhood, the importance of dreaming and the ability to realize their desires.
HYMN TO LIFE - A lesson in life - not just of his discipline - a greeting that has deeply touched not only students at Carnegie Mellon, but around the world. And that became a book, titled "The Last Lecture," published by Rizzoli in Italy, where the themes of the lection are developed and deepened. "I have a system problem - the teacher announced, starting the lesson in front of 400 students -. Although I have always had amazing physical shape, I have ten liver metastases, and I have only a few months of life. " The final meeting between the teacher and his students, between irony and deep reflection, it was transformed into a moving hymn to life.
In two days I will do eighty years, and so I go back to the Final Judgement in respect of which most hope in the mercy of God in justice, for the first will be saved because of my merits, but not of His free grace, and the second would be condemned.
I lived as a Catholic, some sinner, but as a Catholic faithful of the Roman Catholic Church, in obedience to the things he thought of having to obey, even bending my opinion that the Pope and the bishops, aware that the verdict of man, if it is not illuminated by faith, even in the intellectual capacity to know its strengths with some the truth is always tainted by the passions and the error undermined the wound it has inflicted on the man with original sin. But I always tried to honor the principle of the supremacy of conscience, which I tried to make well-educated and well informed. I could not as I wanted to become a lawyer. From patriotic democratic, republican and anti-fascist, I tried to serve the Republic, the Italian nation and also my "little unfinished nation and homeland": Sardinia. Well I know that it was not a man of government nor a statesman, but I hope I was not a useless or worse, harmful, although some modest servant of the Republic. The occasion of my eightieth birthday does not deserve nor any ceremony or celebration. Who wants to generosity and kindness to formulate wishes, do not. If you are a believer in God, Christian, Muslim or jew, you pray for my good death. And if someone, not having read this almost my obituary, I will send out the cards, not overshadow if I did not write it for you! Unfortunately I have to think about the game of chess for a long time I'm playing with death!
the courtyard of the Cathedral of Milan is decent and human to be laid on water bottles. There is no need to discuss, we can only protest compassion
Water for Eluana. From today, the next few days in the churchyard of the Cathedral of Milan is decent and human to be laid water bottles. There is no need to discuss, we can only protest compassion. We can only protest. We can only exercise the freedom to contradict trampling reason is that symbol of the square under the shadow of that symbol of faith which is the Cathedral. Cathedral Square is a place of choice of religion and good citizenship. It 's the right place. It 's the place to gather around the well of the Samaritan woman, and its water. A few miles from there in Lecco on the edge of the lake Manzoni, a living woman is going to be thirsty and hungry from our collective ego, fear of death and contemptuous of human life, science, shameless and family without hope. There is to be seen whether the Christian faith is able to save without or even against the imperatives of ethics and classical bourgeois need to act. It is to act on a square, a square, silently and severally liable, according to the vocation lay Catholics and the Christian culture of the laity. This is the ethical discern good from evil (hidden object) and strive to do good (by the inevitability of sin). Not for the curiosity of Eve and the authorization of the biblical Adam, of course, but according to reason and speak, according to the Logos, which for Christians is an incarnation of staff, a fact. Do not do unto others what you do not want done to yourself: So, do not thirsty. Fa 'to others what you would have them do to you: therefore, to' drink to the thirsty. Many in the world are thirsty and in danger of dying. But none like Eluana. None to sentence a judge. None for the evolution of culture. None to father's desperate decision. No one in the dumb name of his previous will. None as standard for the finding of a human law will so-called biological or euthanasia. None as a guinea pig ideological one more step on the path of radical de-Christianization of the world. No one is thirsty for a trivial incident philosophical become universal civil religion, the religion of good death, good death, according to the modern capable of giving dignity to the person who receives it in his bed or autonomy and freedom to anyone who gives in his lap. Nobody in the world dies of thirst for secular vanity and necrophilia. A Eluana, as happened to Terry Schiavo, it could happen. Beniamino Andreatta has lived nine years in a hospital bed, in Bologna, which is closed to direct and understandable to the rest of the world but not the love of his family and his friends. When he went to town, the Head of State visited him. He went to find someone. Not a tomb or something, that you may have. There was a warm body, which in a few days it became cold, as he died Andreatta. Giorgio Napolitano, who made her sensational doubts at the time of the call of Piergiorgio Welby in the name of the right to die could be come a doubt this time. To the contrary. On behalf of the right to live. You may visit the churchyard of the cathedral and lay himself a bottle of water. Could invoke a moratorium against the death penalty law, imposed a sister of the sisters with the caution of torture Misericordine humanitarian, that will not dry out the mucous membranes and discomfort of dehydration is limited.
Giuliano Ferrara (The Gazette, July 13, 2007)
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appeal to civil society for the right to life Eluana!
This appeal is to defend the right to life of Eluana and opposed the request to discontinue hydration and nutrition. This break would cause the death of Eluana, and this only after a long and painful death, as was the case for Terri Schiavo in 2005.
take the life of a person, just because sick or disabled or unconscious, is an unacceptable practice in any country that wishes to continue to be amongst those civilians.
LA VITA E 'UN BENE inviolable and unavailable, and no one can arrogate the power to remove at will.
*** "I require the life of man to man, to each his brother" (Gen 9.5)
" is [...] becomes more and more tempting euthanasia, that is to take control of death and bring in advance and thus ending the "gently" to the life or others. In reality, what might seem logical and humane, in depth is seen to be senseless and inhumane.
Here we are faced with one of the more alarming symptoms of the "culture of death", which is advancing above all in prosperous societies, marked by an attitude efficiency and which sees as intolerable and too burdensome the growing number of elderly and disabled people. They are very often isolated from family and society, organized almost exclusively on the basis of efficiency criteria production, according to which a hopelessly impaired life no longer has any value. "
is an ancient demon Tuesday is the one that reappeared on the stage of Roman piazza Navona. It is the demon that drives an ongoing part of Italians to believe not only that their country is governed (or can be at any moment if they win the 'other' ) by a corrupt gang of rogues, but that these villains, after all, are nothing but the true mirror of the country, or rather of its majority. It is the demon, precisely the divisive morality: that is the idea that Italy is not a single country, with propensities aspects, good and bad characters, inextricably intertwined in all its parts and to some extent within each of us. No, but Italy would be a country with two souls, two moralities, even two people of opposite sign. On the one hand the Italians bad (by nature reactionary, cheaters and abusers) and on the other hand the Italians good (of course, equally democratic, law-abiding, alert to the public good). On the one hand short, Italy majority morally gray, and in front, to try to fight, the one that likes to call "another Italy ', hopelessly in the minority.
The representation of this way of looking at it is staged in the most obvious on stage in Rome where it became clear, precisely, that the essential thing was to scream loudly that Berlusconi embodies the best of possible opprobrium . Forgetting that, just imagine if one did not like his no good reason, especially since there must be good reasons, however, if a majority of Italians voted for him. But morality is precisely to frustrate every political issue of this kind: the majority of Italians voted for Berlusconi? And what's the problem? It means being made of his own pasta, is proof that the villains are like him.
It is an old story, I said, this moralism. A story that begins immediately after unification, the anger for the miseries of the country and the disappearance of the great hopes are transformed in the Risorgimento indictment of his political classes, the 'legal country', which continues with the antigiolittismo of much of the national culture that, at the denunciation of the misdeeds of the "minister of the underworld," now associated with important new moral inadequacy of the complaint of the opposition Socialists, be guilty of colluding to keep him and drone. A story, then, that until now seemed to culminate and condensing in the flaming Gobetti's preaching and his devotion to the "heroic minority 'Call to fight against everything and everyone. Against Giolitti, against Turati, against Mussolini: all equally guilty, although for various reasons of course, to promote the "miseducation" moral and political life of the Italian people. Also considered - needless to say? - Not wanting anything else.
were writers, poets, the academic class, intellectuals in general, to play a central role in giving rise to this tradition of moralism in feeding and divisive. A role refers to the political role of conscience of the nation's intellectuals have always been in Italy before and during the Risorgimento, and who have remained until today.
The Italian political history in particular in the 900 was in many ways, in fact, a history of political commitment of intellectuals, and this commitment has been practiced mostly as a denunciation and excommunication from the moralistic tones of a policy with no name, but Italy's "bad," and "we do not like this Italy," according to the famous words of John Amendola.
is natural that such an attitude ally be promptly and cherish, is a temptation for any opposition force. The Italian left should know. After the war, in fact, the Communist Party began a policy of close alliance with the intellectuals, and therefore it did precisely measure significant divisive moralism that characterized the Italian tradition in their efforts. Moreover, an anti-system party as was the Communist Party of the time - sure you can not ever get to the government through regular, condemned to permanent opposition - of course it was divisive. Of course it had to feed the division into 'good' and 'bad'. The cut moralistic intellectuals who added there was therefore, and it was certainly significant, if only to keep alive a tradition, but the cold realism of Togliatti took care not to do with it ever take my hand, to block all approach to land crucial decision policy. Where there remained famous for his "openings" and its "dialogue" (Even with the ex-fascists).
Things started to change completely with Berlinguer. It is then that in fact the gradual discrediting of the communist tradition and the crisis of the USSR left the Communist Party more and more devoid of its historical identity. It is then that the ideological vacuum, which now becomes progressively political vacuum, inexorably begins to be increasingly filled with hardening moralistic. Which in turn tends to become de-legitimize scream, creation of an implacable enemy, because even as a result of a "genetic mutation". With fewer workers and more and more members of the "reflexive middle class' in its ranks, influenced by unscrupulous publishing groups that aspire to almost dictate the line under pressure from new types of judges who consider themselves and invested with justice as an ethical mission, and then conditioned by a foreign press used to drastically simplify an Italian company which in essence does not know, The PCI finds nothing better to do the "moral issue" his new ID card. Unable to convert to the Social Democrats, the party of Gramsci and Togliatti, who also once was aware of the harsh policy dilemmas, which is not presented as "the party of honest people ', who entrust their hopes to discredit the moral of' opponent.
There is a dramatic repudiation totale di una storia, una rottura sociale e antropologica, quello che potrebbe definirsi il salto verso il moralismo in un Paese (e dunque in un partito) solo. È da quel momento che un nugolo di professori, di giornalisti, di teatranti, di showmen televisivi, di romanzieri, comincia a pensare ormai di essere di fatto il padrone dell'elettorato di sinistra. E, quel che è peggio, in una certa misura lo diventa davvero. L'8 luglio romano ha rappresentato l'esito di questo lungo itinerario. Esso però dovrebbe aver fatto capire definitivamente, a chi non l'avesse ancora capito, che cosa implica alla fine il moralismo divisivo: in una parola la concreta impossibilità della democrazia. Se infatti l'Italia che politicamente non ci piace è made up of people led by a rogue morally obtuse, it is obvious that the only possibility is a death struggle, confrontation, uncompromising image, never. And if you happen to be so detestable that Italy wins the election then it is inevitable convinced that democracy, a system that allows such things, in reality it is nothing but a scam. But this is what is really convenient to the left? This is what should the Democratic Party?
Ernesto Galli Della Loggia (Corriere della Sera, July 13, 2008)
The drama of human life appears in all its urgency and relentless in his irrepressible question when sickness and suffering affect us . Even more if they last and do not open vanishing points, at least in the view of man. Disease and suffering should speak for themselves (some did, others have not had the chance), because only the experience makes more evident the reality and the polished court of reason. If his situation had been left in reserve - protected how was interference from journalistic, legal and political - of Eluana we would not have wanted to write, so far is the experience that separates us from you and your family. But this did not happen. His case has become public, loaded with implications and allusions emotional, symbolic, and administrative case law, and therefore can not remain without a clinical evaluation, ethics and morality, without a cultural and social thought. On tiptoe, whispering - like when you enter the room of one who is evil - we must speak with the utmost respect, or better, with great love for her. First, the clinical reality: Eluana is not dead (either from the point of view cardiovascular and pulmonary, either on the brain) or even dying (not a 'sick' with a terminal prognosis). The condition of "persistent vegetative state" for years in which pay is not clinically identifiable with a state of "irreversible coma" from which it differs, among other things, the possibility (not disabled) of an awakening, spontaneous or stimulated, and the presence of an important brain electrical activity and opening movements of the eyes, and not stimulated. Even the 'common sense' (to say nothing of the clinical gaze) appreciate these objective differences. In addition, the patient does not undergo any treatment that might fall in this case of 'fury terapeutico»: al contrario, essa viene curata amorevolmente dal personale medico e infermieristico che la assiste e le assicura l’idratazione, l’alimentazione, il ricambio, la mobilizzazione ed altre cure nella forma che corrisponde ai suoi bisogni fisiologici essenziali. Perché privarla di tutto questo per porre fine ai suoi giorni? Come il medico e l’infermiere potrebbero abdicare – seppure in ottemperanza ad una sentenza – alla propria scienza e coscienza, la cui evidenze mostrano ragionevolmente che attuare quanto previsto dalla Corte significa condannare a morte certa questa giovane donna? Da oltre due millenni e mezzo, la medicina è nata e si è sviluppata in Occidente per curare ogni paziente in qualunque circostanza physical or moral you are, only in recent times, and today more and more, including the restoration of health and save his life. Physicians are not called upon either to cause or accelerate the death process. Who can claim the right to violate the dignity and ethics that have made this profession very valuable to our society and a safe means of improving the personal life of citizens? They have considered the hydration and nutrition provided Eluana as 'medical procedures', as therapies that may be undertaken or suspended at any time, on the grounds of their clinical efficacy or futility. Instead, you must dissolve the misunderstanding: even if put in place by qualified personnel such as health, the nature of life support essential to the existence of the subject does not change. As noted last year, the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith, "the administration of food and water even by artificial means is, in principle an ordinary and proportionate means of preserving life. It is therefore obligatory, insofar as and until seen to have attained its proper finality, which is the hydration and nourishment of the patient. " And in the case of Eluana shall continue to be of proven utility in supporting the physiology of the body and allow the person's life. In this delicate matter to judicial forum does not appear to be the most appropriate forum for decisions that, in the long history of treatment of humans, they found therapeutic alliance between patient and physician joint an appropriate location and reasonable settlement of the rights and duties, including figure - according to that gospel - that of "feeding the hungry and the thirsty."
