Dying With Dignity: A Plea for Personal Responsibility

by Hans Küng, Walter Jens

Discusses assisted suicide

Paperback

First published January 1, 1996

About the author

Hans Küng was a Swiss Catholic priest, controversial theologian, and prolific author. Since 1995 he had been President of the Foundation for a Global Ethic (Stiftung Weltethos). Küng is "a Catholic priest in good standing," but the Vatican has rescinded his authority to teach Catholic theology. Though he had to leave the Catholic faculty, he remained at the University of Tübingen as a professor of Ecumenical Theology and served as Emeritus Professor since 1996. In spite of not being allowed to teach Catholic theology, neither his bishop nor the Holy See had revoked his priestly faculties.

Reviews

[Cristóbal Cuadrado nahum · Rating 5 out of 5]

Este breve ensayo representa un "alegato a favor de la responsabilidad" en relación al morir, en palabras del autor. Escrito hace una década, no pierde su vigencia al abordar el tema de la autonomía (o no) en relación al fin de la vida en enfermos terminales, tocando la eutanasia activa como problemática central. Es particularmente interesante, pues es un alegato a favor de la eutanasia, estructurada por un teólogo, desde una mirada teológica cristiana, lo cual lo diferencia profundamente en sus argumentos a otros autores ateos o agnósticos que apoyan la eutanasia. Un libro que toda persona debería leer, como simple ejercicio de contrastar las propias ideas. Disponible en español por editorial Trotta.