I Continue to Enjoy Life: The Threatened Value of Old Age and the Discovery of Its Meaning
I Continue to Enjoy Life: The Threatened Value of Old Age and the Discovery of Its Meaning

Summary/Abstract: The article addresses the value of old age as a criterion for seeking the meaning of life. Such an approach contradicts not only contemporary postmodern culture, which emphasizes vitality and youthfulness, but also the utilitarianism that dominates contemporary secular ethics. Specifically, this approach considers human life in terms of quality of life, which results in an arbitrary refusal of some quality and the simultaneous right to exist. In this regard, the personalistic approach in bioethics that Pope John Paul II’s teaching, life, aging, and death expemplify affirms that old age is an inalienable sphere of the value and sanctity of human life.

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