Poetry:

...SCREEN A byproduct of this line of argument could be a decision not to start someone on a therapy or technology for fear that it would not be stopped if and when that treatment should become in- BEHIND THE RED CURTAIN appropriate...

...Such a position, how- rialism...

...Indeed, this was be fed and sheltered...

...In black-and-white, we see the turmoil prohibit removal of various forms of life support, particularly in the streets of Beijing that reflects the inability of the war lords medically assisted nutrition and hydration-which of course is to rule in the face of Western exploitation and Japanese impethe presumption the committee holds...

...Such wisdom is in danger of being lost...

...traordinary and should be used or not accordingly...

...Opera stars: the theatrical masks and headdresses...

...As the Pennsylvania does not seek to determine the relation of benefit to burden for bishops correctly note, such a distinction is not to be "based the patient...

...After a prologue showing the two main characters-Shitou, to arrive at a single answer to some of the real and personal the portrayer of heroic warriors, and Douzi, the female imperdilemmas involved in this issue...

...Shortly after, Douzi burns the cape can't stop the treatments, but we know it's the right thing to do she wrapped about him against the cold...

...Farewell My Concubine is both voluptuous and Fourth, the prolife committee uses the terms "treatment" and acrid...

...Such we determine whether or not they are to be used...

...I am quite leery of speaking of treatment and care as inter- the swirling yellow backdrop curtains against which the shadchangeable...

...I can think of no surer way bladder and kidney and thrust down to encourage or even play right into the hands of those who are your uterus till you could feel it fall advocating euthanasia than to strongly imply that some therabetween your lips like a natural- pies cannot be forgone or stopped once started...

...The boy actor, such a serious decision, that answers to complex issues can be Shitou, wins the crowd over with the old Kung-fu stunt of breakformulated in terms universally applicable to all cases, and that ing a board with his head...

...I am not saying this is what the bishops actually say...

...ous hospitals, I was asked to speak with two elderly, unmar- One scene later, the prostitute offers her little son, Douzi, ried Irish sisters who wanted to terminate treatment for the third for membership in the company...

...theatrical apprentices exercising halfpatient, we are not always obligated to provide treatment...

...Third, the stance assumes that the physician is the solely on the commonness and availability of the means them- major-or perhaps only-decision maker...

...No," they said, "he will tell us we Mother has disappeared...

...delinquency...

...I'll be free in the sweet bye and bye...

...But the fact that this experience from cubines a fulfillment or a thwarting of Douzi's soul...

...In fact, early in the film, pain literally floods the screen with Fifth and finally, the prolife committee states: "It is not easy color...

...naked in the freezing morning air while singing to the rising Neither is a particular treatment always an appropriate way of sun of the strength that is filling their bodies...

...the ethicist rather than him...

...Early in his training, Douzi is inspired mind on reading these documents on medically assisted nutri- through watching a performance of veterans to achieve greattion and hydration suggests that maybe these elderly sisters were ness in his own craft, but why does he keep changing the line, right on both counts...

...I think "Farewell My Concubine" in 1977, we are taken back to their that the only way a single answer could be given would be to childhood in the 1920s...

...Fear of technological entrapment could cause CHEN'S 'FAREWELL MY CONCUBINE' great harm because people who might benefit from a treatment would not receive it or would reject it...

...The ultimate or normative value is life, whether personal or biological...

...These examples range from Lessius's How Sweet the Bye and Bye teaching in the 1600s ("women, especially virgins, are not bound to accept from men medical treatment of this type in (For JBH) the more secret parts...

...conversation, I asked if they wanted to discuss this with their So Mother takes an ax and chops off the offending digit...

...parish priest, for I was surprised that they asked to speak with Douzi's contract is signed with his blood...

...Nothing can compro14: 3 December 1993 Commonweal mise or qualify that value...

...My reason for fearing such a loss is the growing influence Then you saw, being blind, the last dim light of the extreme versions of the prolife movement which see your opalescent pupil could permit euthanasia as the analogue of abortion...

...The Helsinki statement implies that therapies or outcomes rizations of treatments or technologies on the basis of which are ordinary by virtue of the physician's determination...

...selves, although this is taken into account...

...And what a tragedy to feel that the church "By nature I am a girl, not a boy" to "I am a boy, not a girl...

...Connoisseurs of the exotic will be well "care" in a way which suggests that they are interchangeable...

...This position seems A treatment's routine or customary use in the practice of to be in contention with the prolife committee's approving ci- medicine or even its being lifesaving does not make such a treattation of the 1975 Declaration of Helsinki that medical proce- ment morally ordinary...

...On the basis of such an analoutcome, not the patient's values or the implications of the prog- ysis we conclude that a particular treatment is ordinary or exnosis for the patient...

...has abandoned you at the time of deepest need...

...But instead of thanking his apprenthe magisterium is to have the final word in resolving practi- tice, the troupe's leader-teacher beats him for a recent cal moral decisions...

...nteresting examples of this meaning of the terms show up in the history of moral theology and exemplify how attuned these moralists were to the culture, the state of medicine, the economic status of the person, and George Held personal values...

...ed, his new identity has begun, and Douzi will have to find other I was taken aback, both because the two sisters were so firm ways to warm himself...

...Such an impression will be a total disaster...

...But Chen Kaige's film is no confection, no Last Emperor...

...1 Was he destined to be a player, all right, but not exclusively of Commonweal 3 December 1993: 15...

...Unfortunately one often does not know whether or not a treatment is beneficial until one actually tries it...

...But the troupe's leader refuses: the boy the classic case for terminating therapy...

...in their assessment and because I would not think that this would Is that new identity as an impersonator of maidens and conbe the priest's response...

...The terms ordinary and offer "hope of life, reestablishing health, or alleviating suffer- extraordinary do not refer to abstract classifications or categoing...

...Rather these a position is a type of medical indications policy that mandates terms refer to the conclusion of a moral analysis of the facts of treatment based on physician assessment of medical benefit or the case and the relevant values...

...A desperate prostitute holding her starving child watchever, assumes individuals are not to be trusted in coming to es a theater troupe being harassed by a mob...

...My impression is that and cunningly left behind your agony...

...Toward the end of our has an extra finger and this minor freakishness disqualifies him...

...And, as each blow falls on the lad's backside, the Many years ago when I began doing ethics rounds in vari- nostalgic black-and-white photography turns into vivid color...

...Second, it ing routine-and what is morally ordinary-meaning a favorable proportion of benefits to burdens...

...1769) observation that discussions of ordiyou could taste how bad nary means may be impractical because "people usually sin you wanted to go into that good night by being too solicitous of their lives rather than the other way you raged against the light around" (quoted in Daniel Cronin, doctoral dissertation, in prayed for it to go out Conserving Human Life, John XXIII Medical-Moral Research for you no false heroics Center, 1991...

...Farewell My Concubine is futerms, then to reject treatment is to reject care, which does not eled by pain...

...enough satisfied with the spectacle in this Chinese Thus the committee asks whether "medically assisted nutrition movie about the linked destinies of two Beijing and hydration should always be seen as a form of normal care...

...for though we are always obligated to care for a ows of performers glide...

...My concern is not to pick linguistic nits, but rooms...

...A new home acceptand we're going to do it...

...in this quarter, any action that can be remotely construed as a compromise of life is to be rejected...

...We discussed the situation and it was clear that death ed as being only one step above prostitution, at least Douzi will was imminent and further therapies useless...

...Why is it necessary for us to sonator specializing in faithful concubines-getting ready to arrive at a single answer, particularly when the issue is so com- rehearse a farewell performance of their best loved vehicle plex, as the committee's statement itself documents...

...I am talking about what impression people can take from stories about "There's a land that is fairer than day" the documents...

...These are only examples and they have the just the stoic's sort...

...to warn against an implicit begging of a critical question...

...This avoids Such a position first establishes what is ordinary by catego- an equivocation between what is medically ordinary-meanrizing the technology or procedure in the abstract...

...One must look to the benefits and burdures are appropriate if in the judgment of the physician they dens to see if there is a disproportion...

...Please note that ly aborted fetus...

...Their additional sigthe bile rising to your palate nificance is the acceptance of the patient's values and burned your taste buds out perspectives...

...as your huge tumor crushed gall A third issue is a pragmatic one...

...Thus for the sake of the value of biological life, we are to maintain individuals on life support systems until they die...

...follow...

...Then he looks around...

...Although actors are regardsister...

...One you sang me softly in the breath left you of the sanest and most profoundly Christian instincts of the "That's where I want to he Catholic medical ethics tradition has been its recognition of the where I won't ever have to do limits of medical intervention, grounded in a clear sense of human another goddam thing I don't want to...

...For It is both a meditation on the ravaging of human potential and if we assume that treatment and care are mutually extensive an epic hate letter to the theater...

...limits of examples...

...finitude...

...There's so many years ago was among the first things that came to my no easy answer to this...

...the massive pomanifesting care, that is, when the burdens are disproportion- litical demonstrations that turn city squares into outdoor courtate to the benefits...

...but many modest virgins prefer to tolerate a disease or death rather than to be touched by men") Once the pain preyed unrelenting to Patuzzi's (d...

...Nonetheless, they point to a certain comYou could not taste at last mon-sense approach to the problem...