Spring 2025 - St. Bernard's Magazine (1) - Flipbook - Page 9
FULL of HOPE:
Steps to Promoting a Culture of Encounter
and Intergenerational Solidarity
by Amanda Achtman, Lic.
teaches Catholic Bioethics
at the End of Life at St.
Bernard’s. For more
information about her
project, visit:
DyingToMeetYou.com.
My work consists in traveling across Canada and around the world to prevent
euthanasia and encourage hope. The urgency of this mission occurred to me
when I realized we do not so much have a culture of death as we seem to have
death without culture. Our late holy father, Pope Francis, was emphatic that the
antidote to such crises involves promoting a culture of encounter and
intergenerational solidarity.
To this end, I started
