Hans Kung is planning to take his life. Or so he said in an
interview last week in the British Catholic weekly,
The
Tablet. Kung is suffering from Parkinson’s disease, macular
degeneration, and polyarthritis in his hands. Determined not to go gentle into
that good night, he has apparently decided that he will at some point travel to
Switzerland in order to be assisted in committing suicide. His reasoning is
threefold: he does not wish to live when there is no quality of life; his life
is a gift from God and he intends to give it back to God; and death, like
birth, is “our own responsibility.”
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Walker Percy (1916-1990) Catholic convert and writer