1. Death & Dying:  Life–Those in our lives who are dying or who have died teach us about the value of living.  They remind us not to take our lives for granted but to live each moment of life to its fullest, and to remember that our own small lives form a part of a greater whole.

Since each stage of life has its own unique gift to give to humanity, we need to do whatever we can to support each stage, and we need protect each stage from attempts to suppress its individual contribution to the human life cycle.  Thus, we need to be wary, for example, of attempts to thwart a young child’s need to play through the establishment of high-pressure formal academic preschools. 

We should protect the wisdom of the aged from elder abuse.  We need to do what we can to help our adolescents at risk.  We need to advocate for prenatal education and services for poor mothers and support safe and healthy birthing methods in third-world countries.

We ought to take the same attitude toward nurturing the human life cycle as we do toward saving the environment from global warming and industrial pollutants. By supporting each stage of the human life cycle, we will help to ensure that all its members are given care and helped to blossom to their fullest degree.