Indignity Following a Death

Jean Jacques Rousseau and Carl Rogers created a moral philosophy that teaches that (1) whatever you feel is right is right and (2) you must live your life in the way that most expresses you and is deeply satisfying to you. While Ada Dupree may have lived that way, the indignity surrounding her death, funeral and burial are incomprehensible.

Feelings are not reliable measures upon which to base moral decisions, especially since they may be so easily influenced and changed. There are many women who may have made a moral choice not to have sex until marriage when along came a desirable, smooth talking man and before they know it, they have awakened in bed next to someone trying to figure out what happened. This is

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