THE LOGAN’S RUN ANALOGIES

LOGAN’S RUN is the perfect analogy of life in the spiritual wasteland of the 21st century. We may not be living physically in an underground city like Logan and his friends, but the last few generations, and especially this generation— we have been and are living in the spiritual equivalent. What makes the film so […]

SOUND AND FURY

Part Two of on “Dying with Dignity” “Out, out, brief candle! Life’s but a walking shadow, a poor player that struts and frets his hour upon the stage and then is heard no more: it is a tale told by an idiot, full of sound and fury, signifying nothing.” Macbeth (Act V, Scene V) Shakespeare […]

Dying With Dignity

“DYING WITH DIGNITY” was the front page headline on OSHAWA THIS WEEK when I got home from the funeral of Zak Taylor last week. I understand the argument people with terminal illnesses make, that they deserve the right to die with dignity. But this argument could also have been made by Robin Williams or Zak […]