HALLOWEN OR LIFE AFIRMATION ?

Celebrating Halloween in Protestant countries is part of tradition. In most large supermarkets in Scotland you can see decorations with ghosts and skeletons. Among young people, this evening is seen as an chance for fun. In Poland there is inactive controversy due to occult elements. But is it just an advertising component or a hard reality that should not be ignored?

I say that, not only in my opinion, but besides in another people who mourn the failure of a loved one, any effort to make fun of death becomes something hard to accept. We seem to be surviving in a time of darkness, but why should this darkness control us?

John Paul II was endowed with an extraordinary talent of affirmation of life based on the fact of the Gospel. He convinced it in his documents, specified as Evangelium Vitae and many others. We know his statements on the defence of human dignity and respect for human life from conception to natural death. Although modern trends tell us that the planet is changing and that we request to keep up with the spirit of time, if we look closely, we will see the constant conflict for values taught by Pope John Paul II.

Euthanasia is allowed in many European countries. In Scotland, the laws in force prohibit euthanasia and assisted suicide. However, last year the debate on whether or not the terminally sick who are 6 months of age or little began should be allowed to shorten their lives voluntarily. There is presently a advanced hazard of amending existing legislation. Sir Keir Starmer "personally committed" to Dame Esther Rantzen that he would let the current UK government to consider a bill allowing assisted suicide.

According to Dr. Gillian Wright, doctor of palliative care: "The main danger of assisted suicide is that society devalues the life of an individual due to the fact that it is sick, disabled, confused or its contribution to society is seen as minimal."

By challenging the current bill, the alliance of people and organizations, creating the run "Care Not Killing", stood up for human rights and trying to influence public opinion. The run aims, among others, to guarantee that existing rules prohibiting euthanasia and assisted suicide are not weakened or repealed. It is equally crucial for the run to advance palliative care with its improvement and increase of resources in the current healthcare system.

The contemporary planet seems to deficiency reflection on passing away, and the subject of death becomes uncomfortable. Holy Father John Paul II called euthanasia false mercy and considered it a perversion, due to the fact that actual compassion encourages solidarity with another people's pain, not to kill people. In the “Roman Triptych,” he wrote: “Thus they pass generations. The bare come into the planet and the bare return to the land from which they were taken." The Pope added: “Stop, this passing makes sense, makes sense!’’

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