Give Me Back My Dignity

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Dignity does not consist in possessing honors, but in the consciousness that we deserve them. - Aristotle

 

Every life deserves a certain amount of dignity, no matter how poor or damaged the shell that carries it. - Rick Bragg,

All Over But the Shoutin'

 

Dignity is as essential to human life as water, food, and oxygen. The stubborn retention of it, even in the face of extreme physical hardship, can hold a man's soul in his body long past the point at which the body should have surrendered it. -

Laura Hillenbrand, Unbroken: A World War II Story of Survival, Resilience, and Redemption

 

But today’s society is characterized by achievement orientation, and consequently it adores people who are successful and happy and, in particular, it adores the young. It virtually ignores the value of all those who are otherwise, and in so doing blurs the decisive difference between being valuable in the sense of dignity and being valuable in the sense of usefulness. If one is not

 

cognizant of this difference and holds that an individual’s value stems only from his present usefulness, then, believe me, one owes it only to personal inconsistency not to plead for euthanasia along the lines of Hitler’s program, that is to say, ‘mercy’ killing of all those who have lost their social usefulness, be it because of old age, incurable illness, mental deterioration, or whatever handicap they may suffer. Confounding the dignity of man with mere usefulness arises from conceptual confusion that in turn may be traced back to the contemporary nihilism transmitted on many an academic campus and many an analytical couch. -

Viktor E. Frankl,

Man's Search for Meaning

 

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