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Amanda Achtman

Amanda Achtman holds a Master’s degree from the John Paul II Catholic University in Lublin, Poland, and a Licentiate degree from the Pontifical Gregorian University in Rome. She has worked on Parliament Hill in an effort to prevent the expansion of euthanasia to persons with living with disabilities or mental illness. Amanda works with Canadian Physicians for Life and teaches Catholic Bioethics at End of Life at St. Bernard’s School of Theology and Ministry. She is also the founder of Dying to Meet You, a project of cultural renewal to humanize our conversations on suffering, death, meaning, and hope.

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Will You Love Me Forever? 

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If stillborn children could inspire one of the most-loved children’s books in the twentieth century, then maybe a grandpa with dementia will inspire one of the best stories in the twenty-first. 
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Accepting Our Children, Accepting Ourselves 

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Keeping the person at the center of concern maintains our focus on his or her good rather than on our own fears and insecurities. And, each time we practice accepting another in the fullness of their fragility, we come to a healthier, more honest acceptance of ourselves, too.  
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Euthanasia in the Castle: Inside Europe’s Museums of Nazi Medical Crimes

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Today we might instinctively look at Nazi criteria for death as utterly baseless, but at the time seasoned medical professionals regarded them as reasonable. To have a sense of history is to grasp the arbitrariness of such criteria. When it comes to killing patients, there is no way to get the criteria just right because the stamp of medical approval sends a social message that there is a category of persons who should not exist.