All new symposium on Jeffrey P. Bishops The Anticipatory Corpse! First panelist is Hille Haker. Her essay, To Live Well and To Die Well, is excerpted below. Follow this link to read the essay in its entirety: syndicatetheology/haker/ From the physician’s perspective, the required consent to repress the person in the body in order to “work” on the body medically is moralized so that is appears to be the most responsible choice a patient can make in view of the ending of her life: a good death is a death that addresses medical as well as psychosocial and spiritual needs; the gift of life should be given to someone else by donation of one’s organs; in certain situations, life is too much of a burden (for oneself, for others, for society) so that death is the better option. What goes unsaid—and what Bishop has analyzed sharply, is this: The medical “system” morally incentivizes the patient to give permission to the reductive transformation of herself into a body that is examined in light of its own future: the corpse, because medicine does not function otherwise anymore.
Posted on: Mon, 27 Oct 2014 17:00:29 +0000
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