Euthanasia: watch your language! Reading Jane Munro’s article in News Weekly (May 6, 2017), “Rare win for the family at UN women’s commission”, the words which echoed strongly with me were: “Language is vital to United Nations documents. Every word is scrutinised and carefully evaluated.” Language of course is the thing which really separates us from the other created species. Language is used…

DIGNITY THERAPY: Final Words for Final Days by Harvey Max Chochinov Oxford University Press, Oxford Hardcover: 199 pages Price: AUD$70.95 Reviewed by Margaret Somerville   (Note: In this review I refer to the book as Dignity Therapy and the psychotherapeutic intervention it explains as “dignity therapy”.)   Dignity Therapy is a remarkable book. From one perspective, however, that is not…

THE LONG ROAD: Australia’s Train, Advise and Assist Missions Edited by Tom Frame NewSouth, Sydney Paperback: 416 pages Price: AUD$39.99 Reviewed by Jeffry Babb   Give a man a fish; you feed him for a day. Teach him how to fish and you feed him for a lifetime. Chinese proverb   Every organisation must transmit knowledge, not only technical knowledge,…