The Problem of Death

                                                                                                                      Vol. VII, No. 2, February 1994

"The practice of abortion and euthanasia reminds us of one important point which lies at the very heart of man's failure to find the alternative spiritual comfort and moral leadership which only belief in God can provide. These alternative secular systems can kill. Oh yes, they can do it only too easily: whether the six million Jews slaughtered by Hitler, or the 20 million Russians done to death by Stalin, or Pol Pot's massacre of a third of the population of Campuchea ... or the millions of infants we do not permit to be born at all, let alone live. All these systems can end life, but they cannot prolong it. The greatest of all human problems – the problem of death – they cannot solve." British historian Paul Johnson.