Mankind's feeling of responsibility to create a decent life and make it worth living with dignity has always been stronger than the will to kill life.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
The dignity we seek in dying must be found in the dignity with which we have lived our lives.
'Death with dignity' is our society's expression of the universal yearning to achieve a graceful triumph over the stark and often repugnant finality of life's last sputterings. But the fact is, death is not a confrontation. It is simply an event in the sequence of nature's ongoing rhythms.
Care for life and physical health, with due regard for the needs of others and the common good, is concomitant with respect for human dignity.
Human dignity is better served by embracing knowledge.
Allowing our government to kill citizens compromises the deepest moral values upon which this country was conceived: the inviolable dignity of human persons.
Our moral, religious, and political traditions are united in their respect for the dignity of human life.
Albert Camus, a great humanist and existentialist voice, pointed out that to commit to a just cause with no hope of success is absurd. But then, he also noted that not committing to a just cause is equally absurd. But only one choice offers the possibility for dignity. And dignity matters. Dignity matters.
Work is at the core of human dignity.
Someone has to die in order that the rest of us should value life more.
Humanity may endure the loss of everything; all its possessions may be turned away without infringing its true dignity - all but the possibility of improvement.
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