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The fiercest debates often hide a simpler question: who decides when a life has finished its work? We wade into the MAID conversation with a different compass—potential. Not the glossy kind tied to youth and output, but the deeper current that can still move hearts, heal rifts, and teach courage even when bodies weaken. Drawing on the ancient image of earth versus dust, we explore why some soil grows a seed while other ground stays barren, and how that metaphor reshapes the way we see suffering, timing, and moral limits.

We share a hard boundary through a vivid thought experiment: if we refuse to harvest an elder’s heart to save a young stranger, even when the math seems obvious, then we admit a rule about the sanctity of time. From there, we follow the quiet ripples a single life can send—siblings who reconcile at a bedside, a nurse who discovers a vocation, a family that learns to sit with pain rather than rush to escape it. Along the way, we challenge the myth of control that often rides with success. Money can make us forget how many hands and how much grace shape any outcome. When life narrows, that illusion breaks, and we face a choice: reach for control, or lean into trust and responsibility.

This conversation is not about romanticizing suffering. It is about widening support, telling the truth about fear, and choosing to plant even when we only have a fraction of what we hoped for. If purpose is larger than preference, then staying present can be a final act of leadership—teaching our people patience, dignity, and love under pressure. Join us as we consider how to honour life’s assignment to the end, tend the soil we have, and let seeds do their slow, stubborn work.

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