The Prisoner and the Chaplain

Chapter 4

The quote that begins “O loving and kind God” comes from Psalm 51:1–12, The Living Bible (Carol Stream, IL: Tyndale House Publishers, 1971).

The quote that begins “When my time has come” comes from the Tibetan Nyingma Master Longchenpa Rabjampa in the fourteenth century. Quoted in Tulku Urgyen Rinpoche, Repeating the Words of the Buddha, 2nd ed., trans. Erik Pema Kunsang (Hong Kong: Rangjung Yeshe Publications, 2006), 145. See www.a-good-dying.com/tibetan-prayers.html for more information.

The quote that begins “Now I say to you in conclusion” comes from Martin Luther King, Jr.’s September, 18, 1963, “Eulogy for the Martyred Children.” It has been reproduced on the website Martin Luther King, Jr. And the Global Freedom Struggle: h***:://kingencyclopedia.stanford.edu/encyclopedia/documentsentry/doc_eulogy_for_the_martyred_children/index.html.

The quote that begins “I am of the nature to grow old” comes from Buddha’s Five Remembrances. See h***:://www.worldprayers.org/archive/prayers/meditations/i_am_of_the_nature.html.

The quote that begins “God of all Creation” I found on the Benedictine Health System website. See Prayers for the Dying: Non-Christian, h***:://www.bhshealth.org/prayers/140707021014698.

The quote that beings “He maketh me” comes from Ezekiel 34:11–24 and John 10:1–21, King James Version. See biblehub.com/kjv/psalms/23.htm.

The quote that begins “The prisoner’s eyeballs” comes from W. Ecenbarger, “Perfecting Death: When the state kills it must do so humanely. Is that possible?,” Philadelphia Inquirer Magazine, January 23, 1994, as quoted in “Descriptions of Execution Methods,” Death Penalty Information Center, h***:://www.deathpenaltyinfo.org/descriptions-execution-methods.