How rewarding is to study medicine if our body will be buried?

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Hi everybody!

I don’t try to depress you by asking this (I cannot neither, the constructo is not so good).
But the problem is: My youngest brother is studying medicine and he feels very bad on this: He says: "Our body will be dissolved after our death, so what do I win by studying medicine?
He becomes really worried and that is bad for all our family.

Maybe the fact that our family is broken has some relationship with our problem- My father left our home when I was begining the uni. He has another “family” now. Me and my younger brothers have not in our mind two important concepts: what a grown man is (and how can we study without that idea?) and we don’t know either what importance the natural law has… so how much important can we think that the body is?

Well, I have these three heartbreaking doubts that make impossible the duty of study, the most important for this forum is the first- What can I say to my brother so he will be conscious of the high importance that body has for the eternal life?

thank you very much! 👍
 
Hi Archedreamer,

Allow me to rephrase. Your brother wants to make a difference in people’s lives, and he’s afraid that medicine won’t ultimately make a difference, because they’ll die anyway.

Well, maybe he should be a priest! But he can definitely serve the Lord as a doctor. I give four reasons:
  1. Physical life is good because God made it.
  2. To heal and make suffering less can be signs and expressions of mercy. (Catholics invented modern hospitals.)
  3. To make life longer gives more opportunity to repent of sin, grow closer to God, grow in merit, and attain a better place in heaven. Once you are dead, there is no repentance, no increase in merit.
  4. We need more doctors with sound ethics informed by faith. Faithful Catholics especially want doctors who do not participate in evil, or urge them to make immoral choices such as contraception, abortion, euthanasia, etc.
 
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Hi Archedreamer,

Allow me to rephrase. Your brother wants to make a difference in people’s lives, and he’s afraid that medicine won’t ultimately make a difference, because they’ll die anyway.

Well, maybe he should be a priest! But he can definitely serve the Lord as a doctor. I give four reasons:
  1. Physical life is good because God made it.
  2. To heal and make suffering less can be signs and expressions of mercy. (Catholics invented modern hospitals.)
  3. To make life longer gives more opportunity to repent of sin, grow closer to God, grow in merit, and attain a better place in heaven. Once you are dead, there is no repentance, no increase in merit.
  4. We need more doctors with sound ethics informed by faith. Faithful Catholics especially want doctors who do not participate in evil, or urge them to make immoral choices such as contraception, abortion, euthanasia, etc.
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Excellent post!
 
Maybe the longer people are able to live, the better the chances that they’ll be able to hear the Gospel and the better the chance that you (or anyone) will be able to share the Gospel with someone… just a thought.
 
Do musicians playing in a band or orchestra get depressed when they think that their music is gone the instant they stop playing? Probably not. They realize that there is beauty and truth and purpose in the playing of the music. Could it be that our lives are like that?
 
I know that Christianity asserts than we will have a body in the Heaven - differently than most religions- Christianity asserts that will be a new body, but does that mean that won’t have any type of relation with this body we have now?

Isn’t a light that gives vale to our body the old prohibition of burn the dead budies?
 
Yes, our bodies will return to dust BUT in the short time that we have. It is important to maintain them so we can live as problem free as we can. PLUS a doctor can in some cases help extend or save a life in a life threatening situation. Yes, God ultimately determines how long we live, BUT doctors can be God’s instrument to help prolong our stay and make it less painful.

At the very least they can help alleviate the pain and suffering of patients who are injured or dying.

It’s like asking why should anyone exercise when they will die anyway. It is because by exercising we can improve the quality of life and in some case extend it beyond what a body in poor condition might normally last.

And lastly for very self-serving reasons, becoming a doctor like many other professions is a job that is useful to society AND it usually pays well enough to support oneself and one’s family. PLUS it may even be lucrative enough so he can contribute money to help support others outside of his immediate family such as yourself or others in need.

Every honest profession and job is important. We have a responsibility to ourselves, to our families and to society to be able to support ourselves financially. IF we do nothing we are a burden to others and we can not assist anyone else, or even ourselves.

Medicine is a vital, noble field of study and doctors are essential to society.
 
Archedreamer said:
I know that Christianity asserts than we will have a body in the Heaven - differently than most religions- Christianity asserts that will be a new body, but does that mean that won’t have any type of relation with this body we have now?

Isn’t a light that gives vale to our body the old prohibition of burn the dead budies?
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Please ponder this:

While we are still in the body we have the use of our free will and can benefit the Body of Christ!

Suffering, which has much value when we surrender to it in union with Christ for his greater glory and the salvation of souls, can be alleviated so the person suffering can be helped to think more clearly. Some people can withstand pain better than others.
There will be a general Resurrection when the bodies of the dead will be re-united with their spirit.

With regard to our bodies after the Resurrection of the dead…those who followed Christ will have a glorified body, intensely happy beyond our imagination… (their spirits will be with Him at the time of their death, without their body); and those who rejected Christ will not have a glorified body (their spirit will have already been judged at the time of their death, and now their body will take part in their damnation.)

All this is in the Catechism of the Catholic Church. And, I am sure, articulated better than what I have done.
 
I recently underwent open heart surgery. I am much better now and eternally grateful that God put me in the hands of a brilliant surgeon who has given me more needed time to earn my salvation. Medicine is not just good for the body. It is also good for the soul.

While preparing for my surgery, I read the Book of Job, which I understood then as I had never understood it before. Trust in the power of the Lord to heal all our suffering, physical and spiritual.
 
Charlemagne_II said:
I recently underwent open heart surgery. I am much better now and eternally grateful that God put me in the hands of a brilliant surgeon who has given me more needed time to earn my salvation. Medicine is not just good for the body. It is also good for the soul.

While preparing for my surgery, I read the Book of Job, which I understood then as I had never understood it before. Trust in the power of the Lord to heal all our suffering, physical and spiritual.
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Thank you for that post!
 
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