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Paul Kalanithi Conscience Morality And Forgiveness Analysis

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Paul Kalanithi wrote a memoir about his last year of life when he discovered he was diagnosed with stage five lung cancer. He realized that life is a gift from God, and we’re all made in the image of God. He writes about his past, his journey to his career and his suffering from cancer. In this memoir, we see Conscience, Ethics, and Morality and Sin and Forgiveness. To begin with, conscience is shown in this memoir in many different ways but the connection that I thought was most important between the memoir and conscience is the importance of others. Can you be a free, unique individual while bearing responsibility for the other (Canadian Conference of Catholic Bishops, 41)? The importance of others means that we do not need to see others as enemies of our autonomy, rather others can help us to be individual in freedom. We can also say that the human person is relational because most of our actions are motivated by others either involving others, done with or against others, affect others. Human beings are people who are unique, singular and have the capacity to act and be free. This does not make everyone we see our enemies, rather see them as guidance in our life. An important part of the book is when Paul and his wife Lucy’s relationship became a struggle. Even …show more content…

Ethics is being able to know what is right and wrong in one’s life, it also means the behavior of a person, and morality is knowing when to place those rights into action. Paul Kalanithi has stated that “I will share your joy and sorrow / Till we’ve seen this journey through” (Kalanithi, 217). Although Paul was dying, he still said that he would work hard to secure her future even though he was going through a lot of pain he still tried his very best to help out his wife, this comes to show that he could have easily died but instead he continued to breathe the last breath he

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