Abstract
To live the risen life with God is, presumably, to be what we are meant to be. What can we conclude about our duties to the dying from the medieval belief that we join the hosts of heaven as "animated earth"?...How wrong we would be to suppose that ours is a materialistic age, when everything we hold central to our person is separated from the animated earth that is the body....That bioethics is in danger of losing the body in search of the person is hard to understand, unless in our own way we believe that we deserve to be gods.
