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How long until we start seeing more obituaries like this on a daily basis? Read on, from the BBC: Renowned British conductor Sir Edward Thomas Downes, CBE, has died at the age of 85, after travelling to the assisted suicide clinic Dignitas with his wife. He and his 74-year-old wife Joan, who was terminally ill,…

This is big. And impressive: Founder of a rural Alabama health clinic for the poor that was devastated three times (twice by hurricanes, once by fire) since its founding in 1990, Dr Regina Benjamin was reelected to a second term on the board of the US’ Catholic Health Association at its yearly assembly last month…

We are finding, more and more, many members of religious vocations are growing older, and dying off. Now, those who taught so many of us how to live are also teaching us how to die: Gravely ill with heart disease, tethered to an oxygen tank, her feet swollen and her appetite gone, Sister Dorothy Quinn,…

I wasn’t aware that celebrated pitchman Billy Mays was Catholic, until I read this account of his funeral this morning: References to television pitchman Bill Mays’ trademark image were everywhere at his funeral Friday near Pittsburgh. Most mourners wore stickers showing a cartoon image of his distinctive bearded face. The six pallbearers eschewed suits and…
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