Dying with dignity: The story reveals its meaning

Perspectives on Human Dignity: A Conversation

Volumn , Issue , 2007, Pages 209-223

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6. Something also exemplified in the sources referred to in the preceding note.
7. For some of these meanings see M.D.M. Fowler, 'Suffering', in: J.F. Kilmer, A.B. Miller, and E.D. Pellegrino (eds.), Dignity and Dying. A Christian Appraisal (Grand Rapids, MI: William B. Eerdmans, 1996);
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