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Because of this, bioethical reasoning must be both intellectually rigorous and deeply attentive to the human person. Isolated intellectual work is insufficient, and humility is necessary to deal faithfully with such deeply personal questions. As Augustine wrote:</p><blockquote>To [Jesus], my dear Dioscorus, I wish you to submit with complete devotion, and to construct no other way for yourself of grasping and holding the truth than the way constructed by Him who, as God, saw how faltering were our steps. This way is first humility, second humility, third humility, and however often you should ask me I would say the same, not because there are not other precepts to be explained, but, if humility does not precede and accompany and follow every good work we do, and if it is not set before us to look upon, and beside us to lean upon, and behind us to fence us in, pride will wrest from our hand any good deed we do while we are in the very act of taking pleasure in it.[1]</blockquote><p>Among the intellectual virtues, humility is understood as “proper attentiveness to, and owning, one’s intellectual limitations.”[2] From a Christian perspective, humility requires the genuine pursuit of truth out of love for God and others rather than for personal pride or self-righteousness. Because of this, as CBHD seeks to foster a <em>distinctly Christian</em> conception of bioethics, we value the pursuit of intellectual humility through dialogue and a communal pursuit of truth.</p><p>This issue of <em>Dignitas </em>represents just such a dialogical approach in several important ways. First, the article by Cayla Bland and Scott Rae characterizes interdisciplinary dialogue, using the fields of psychology and bioethics to protect the rights of whole persons in end-of-life care. David Croy continues the discussion on the use of Normothermic Regional Perfusion (NRP) in organ transplants, furthering points Adam Omelianchuk raised in his 2025 <a href="https://www.cbhd.org/dignitas-articles/reviving-organs-redefining-death-the-ethical-controversy-over-normothermic-regional-perfusion-and-the-way-around-it" target="_blank">guest editorial</a>.[3] Finally, Rebecca Martin and David Ramirez approach Bryce Asberg’s <a href="https://www.cbhd.org/dignitas-articles/palliative-sedation-for-existential-suffering-the-enduring-wisdom-of-the-hippocratic-oath" target="_blank">article</a> (2025) on palliative sedation with an applied lens, refining his points based on their practice as medical professionals.[4]</p><p>Also included in this issue are several book reviews. Heather Zeiger provides a review of Carl Elliot’s <em>The Occasional Human Sacrifice</em>, a book that explores why some allow unethical practices in medicine and what prompts others to work to restore justice for patients. Bryan Just reviews a proposed counter-history of bioethics in Robert Baker’s <em>Making Modern Medical Ethics</em>. In <em>Eggonomics</em>, medical anthropologist Diane Tober reports on the commodification of donated eggs and the women who contribute them, which Megan Best generously summarizes. Finally, Joy Riley evaluates Mary Roach’s journalistic and popular exploration of removable body parts in <em>Replaceable You</em>.</p><p>David Croy’s guest editorial continues the work of Adam Omelianchuk’s 2025 article. Normothermic Regional Perfusion (NRP) is the rather new practice of circulating blood through organs in a deceased donor in order to improve organ health in preparation for transplantation. As Omelianchuk’s original article suggests, in the process, some techniques involve restarting circulation of blood through the heart while keeping the flow to the brain clamped off. This brings up major ethical concerns regarding our definition of death and whether a person who is not technically dead but experiencing a collapse of consciousness might be made a candidate for donation and reduced to their function as a means of “organ harvesting.” Omelianchuk thus argued for “ethical parsimony,” asserting that if less controversial methods exist that are effective (which they do), then they should be chosen over ethically complex options.
83</p><p>Croy continues the conversation on the ethical controversies tied to NRP (specifically, Thoracoabdominal Normothermic Regional Perfusion or TA-NRP), focusing specifically on ethical challenges in the determination of death. He discusses the difficulty in identifying the point of death, describing it more as a process rather than a clear arrival. For brain death to be officially determined, a person’s whole brain must be declared deceased. The development of TA-NRP complicates this ascertainment. The Universal Determination of Death Act defines death as “the <em>irreversible</em> cessation of circulatory functions or the <em>irreversible</em> cessation of whole brain function including the brain stem” (as cited in Croy). However, TA-NRP procedures merely require a determination of death by circulatory criteria. Advocates of TA-NRP defend the procedure by suggesting that the intent of restoring circulation matters—the goal is not to bring the person back to life. Croy challenges this argument, asserting that there should be no difference between a patient who is resuscitated and brought back to life on purpose—and who is therefore afforded the rights of a living person—and a patient who still experiences “stable hemodynamic parameters, oxygenation, and heartbeat,” yet who is determined “dead” and stripped of such rights. Thus, Croy argues that the dead donor rule must be upheld and protected. He writes, “certitude in the donor’s death is vitally important for compassionate reasons, for ethical and legal reasons, and for maintenance of public trust.”</p><p>Cayla Bland and Scott Rae unite to integrate family therapy and ethics to provide a model for end-of-life care that can benefit attending healthcare providers, social workers, or pastors in such situations. They offer a fictional case of an elderly gentlemen in the ICU, lacking an advance directive, without his primary decision-maker (his deceased wife), and with tense familial relations between his four children and two siblings. With treatable but incurable cancer, the man faces an indeterminable amount of time with a likely low quality of life, and the family must decide whether it is in his best interest to pursue aggressive treatment. The reactions of each are varied, with a range of responses from the suggestion for physician-assisted suicide to the pursuit of treatment to extend his life.</p><p>In order for this family to come to a robustly Christian conclusion that honors the dignity of their father/brother, they must first deal with their family dysfunction. With an understanding of family life-cycle changes—a developmental framework that underscores the stressors that come about when changing familial dynamics require the taking on of new roles and being flexible in how one participates in the family system—the ethicist is better equipped to help the family turn toward one another in both unity and difference in the decision-making process. To do this well, it is helpful to also understand common aspects of family processing, including cohesion (familial emotional bonds), flexibility (rigid vs. flexible family interactions), and communication, which moderates the other two. Finally, Bland and Rae discuss relational ethics, or those beliefs within family systems as to whether the family unit, and each member within the family, adequately upholds the standard (whether cultural or theological) for relational interaction. These beliefs lead to a spectrum existing on an axis between trustworthiness and destructive entitlement. Throughout the article, the authors apply this developing knowledge to their opening case study.</p><p>Once the family dynamics have been addressed (which may require outside therapy), Bland and Rae suggest they turn to wrestling with the ethical issues involved. Addressing the issue of informed consent, physician-assisted suicide would not be an option, since the patient is unconscious. Here, it is also helpful to keep the family system information in mind as the ethicist or healthcare professional wrestles through a theological approach to their decision-making. After analyzing several key biblical passages, the authors suggest an approach that honors human dignity and affirms God’s control of both life and death. This communicates to the family that death need not always be medically resisted, and futile treatments may cause more emotional or physical suffering for the loved one. Further, to choose futile treatment may be making the theological assumption that our earthly existence is the highest good to be pursued. In conclusion, the model that Bland and Rae propose takes seriously patients as whole people, contextualized in a particular family system and yet in pursuit of a higher moral good.</p><p>As the final dialogical article in this issue of <em>Dignitas</em>, Rebecca Martin and David Ramirez extend Bryce Asberg’s arguments by revising them to fit a real-world clinical care context. Asberg’s 2025 piece uses the Hippocratic Oath to evaluate the use of palliative sedation for existential suffering, finding it an inappropriate treatment and arguing instead for psychosocial restoration in such cases. Martin and Ramirez center the
83ir nuanced approach to Asberg’s points around two core questions: (1) Can one diagnostically create a clear distinction between physical and existential suffering? (2) How can a clinician therapeutically address existential suffering when there is little time and many other symptoms?</p><p>In addressing the first question, the authors cite the interconnectedness of physical and existential suffering. As an example, they note a child who was experiencing intense pain that was not responding to typical medicinal interventions. Yet, when doctors brought the child a puppy, her pain scores and use of such medication dropped exponentially. They further cite those who experience hallucinations at the end of life or combat veterans with PTSD; the question remains: Where does the physical end and the psychological begin? Expanding their second question, if indeed we could clearly diagnose existential suffering, and such a patient also had no clear cause for physical suffering, how do we provide therapeutic treatment substantive enough to meet such psychological needs with the short time patients are in palliative care? Once again, with the experience of combat veterans, such trauma is quite complex, and end-of-life hallucinations in connection to such experiences are unlikely to be alleviated by brief psychological treatment.</p><p>As an alternative to address such real-world issues, they support the use of respite sedation, “the use of sedative agents for a brief, time-limited period (usually 24–48 hours) aimed at alleviating physical symptoms such as pain, nausea, and agitation, followed by sedative weaning and return of consciousness thereafter.” Such a therapeutic approach aims to break the cycle of anxiety and then return the patient to a state of consciousness. Ultimately, issues such as existential suffering and palliative care raise the question of what the purpose of medicine is. How can Christian physicians steward their knowledge of the whole person and the therapeutic process to care spiritually for patients in the midst of both physical and existential suffering?</p><p>We at CBHD are grateful for our authors who engage some of the most complex questions facing healthcare professionals and ethicists alike. They do so with intellectual rigor, epistemic humility, and constructive critique. We invite continued dialogue on these issues and in response to those questions that matter most for living faithfully in our complex MedTech world. In line with this, our next issue of <em>Dignitas</em> will engage the intersection of being human, human health, and the use of Artificial Intelligence (AI). This will also serve to introduce the theme for CBHD’s 2027 annual conference on AI and bioethics.</p><p>‍</p><h2>References</h2><p>[1] Augustine, <em>Letters 83–130</em>, trans. Wilfrid Parsons, ed. Roy Joseph Deferrari, <em>The Fathers of the Church</em> vol. 18 (Catholic University of America Press, 1953), 282.</p><p>[2] Dennis Whitcomb, Heather Battaly, Jason Baehr, and Daniel Howard-Snyder. “Intellectual Humility: Owning Our Limitations,” <em>Philosophy and Phenomenological Research</em> 94, no. 3 (2017): 516, <a href="https://www.jstor.org/stable/48578888" target="_blank">https://www.jstor.org/stable/48578888</a>.</p><p>[3] Adam Omelianchuk, “Reviving Organs, Redefining Death? The Ethical Controversy Over Normothermic Regional Perfusion and the Way Around It,” <em>Dignitas</em> 32, no. 1–2 (2025): 3–5, <a href="https://www.cbhd.org/dignitas-articles/reviving-organs-redefining-death-the-ethical-controversy-over-normothermic-regional-perfusion-and-the-way-around-it" target="_blank">https://www.cbhd.org/dignitas-articles/reviving-organs-redefining-death-the-ethical-controversy-over-normothermic-regional-perfusion-and-the-way-around-it</a>.</p><p>[4] Bryce Asberg, “Palliative Sedation for Existential Suffering: The Enduring Wisdom of the Hippocratic Oath,” <em>Dignitas</em> 32, no. 1–2 (2025): 6–9, <a href="https://www.cbhd.org/dignitas-articles/palliative-sedation-for-existential-suffering-the-enduring-wisdom-of-the-hippocratic-oath" target="_blank">https://www.cbhd.org/dignitas-articles/palliative-sedation-for-existential-suffering-the-enduring-wisdom-of-the-hippocratic-oath</a>.</p></div></div></div></div><section class="section int-post-post-cite-as dignitas"><div class="w-layout-blockcontainer global-padding int-post-cite-as w-container"><div class="w-layout-vflex int-post-info-cite-as-box"><div class="cite-as-title"><div class="cite-as-text">cite as:</div></div><div class="cite-block-rtb w-richtext"><p>Anna B. 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345    #mlb2-3154359.ml-form-embedContainer .ml-form-embedWrapper .ml-form-embedBody .ml-form-checkboxRow input[type=checkbox]:checked~.label-description::after, #mlb2-3154359.ml-form-embedContainer .ml-form-embedWrapper .ml-form-embedBody .ml-form-embedPermissions .ml-form-embedPermissionsOptionsCheckbox input[type=checkbox]:checked~.label-description::after, #mlb2-3154359.ml-form-embedContainer .ml-form-embedWrapper .ml-form-embedBody .ml-form-fieldRow .custom-checkbox .custom-control-input:checked~.custom-control-label::after, #mlb2-3154359.ml-form-embedContainer .ml-form-embedWrapper .ml-form-embedBody .ml-form-horizontalRow .custom-checkbox .custom-control-input:checked~.custom-control-label::after, #mlb2-3154359.ml-form-embedContainer .ml-form-embedWrapper .ml-form-embedBody .ml-form-interestGroupsRow .ml-form-interestGroupsRowCheckbox input[type=checkbox]:checked~.label-description::after {
346        background-image: url("data:image/svg+xml,%3csvg xmlns='http://www.w3.org/2000/svg' viewBox='0 0 8 8'%3e%3cpath fill='%23fff' d='M6.564.75l-3.59 3.612-1.538-1.55L0 4.26 2.974 7.25 8 2.193z'/%3e%3c/svg%3e");
347    }
348
349    #mlb2-3154359.ml-form-embedContainer .ml-form-embedWrapper .ml-form-embedBody .ml-form-fieldRow .custom-radio .custom-control-input:checked~.custom-control-label::after, #mlb2-3154359.ml-form-embedContainer .ml-form-embedWrapper .ml-form-embedBody .ml-form-fieldRow .custom-radio .custom-control-input:checked~.custom-control-label::after {
350        background-image: url("data:image/svg+xml,%3csvg xmlns='http://www.w3.org/2000/svg' viewBox='-4 -4 8 8'%3e%3ccircle r='3' fill='%23fff'/%3e%3c/svg%3e");
351    }
352
353    #mlb2-3154359.ml-form-embedContainer .ml-form-embedWrapper .ml-form-embedBody .ml-form-fieldRow .custom-radio .custom-control-input:checked~.custom-control-label::before, #mlb2-3154359.ml-form-embedContainer .ml-form-embedWrapper .ml-form-embedBody .ml-form-horizontalRow .custom-radio .custom-control-input:checked~.custom-control-label::before, #mlb2-3154359.ml-form-embedContainer .ml-form-embedWrapper .ml-form-embedBody .ml-form-fieldRow .custom-checkbox .custom-control-input:checked~.custom-control-label::before, #mlb2-3154359.ml-form-embedContainer .ml-form-embedWrapper .ml-form-embedBody .ml-form-horizontalRow .custom-checkbox .custom-control-input:checked~.custom-control-label::before, #mlb2-3154359.ml-form-embedContainer .ml-form-embedWrapper .ml-form-embedBody .ml-form-embedPermissions .ml-form-embedPermissionsOptionsCheckbox input[type=checkbox]:checked~.label-description::before, #mlb2-3154359.ml-form-embedContainer .ml-form-embedWrapper .ml-form-embedBody .ml-form-interestGroupsRow .ml-form-interestGroupsRowCheckbox input[type=checkbox]:checked~.label-descripti
353on::before, #mlb2-3154359.ml-form-embedContainer .ml-form-embedWrapper .ml-form-embedBody .ml-form-checkboxRow input[type=checkbox]:checked~.label-description::before  {
354        border-color: #9eb438!important;
355        background-color: #9eb438!important;
356        color: #333333!important;
357    }
358
359    #mlb2-3154359.ml-form-embedContainer .ml-form-embedWrapper .ml-form-embedBody .ml-form-fieldRow .custom-radio .custom-control-label::before, #mlb2-3154359.ml-form-embedContainer .ml-form-embedWrapper .ml-form-embedBody .ml-form-horizontalRow .custom-radio .custom-control-label::before, #mlb2-3154359.ml-form-embedContainer .ml-form-embedWrapper .ml-form-embedBody .ml-form-fieldRow .custom-radio .custom-control-label::after, #mlb2-3154359.ml-form-embedContainer .ml-form-embedWrapper .ml-form-embedBody .ml-form-horizontalRow .custom-radio .custom-control-label::after, #mlb2-3154359.ml-form-embedContainer .ml-form-embedWrapper .ml-form-embedBody .ml-form-fieldRow .custom-checkbox .custom-control-label::before, #mlb2-3154359.ml-form-embedContainer .ml-form-embedWrapper .ml-form-embedBody .ml-form-fieldRow .custom-checkbox .custom-control-label::after, #mlb2-3154359.ml-form-embedContainer .ml-form-embedWrapper .ml-form-embedBody .ml-form-horizontalRow .custom-checkbox .custom-control-label::before, #mlb2-3154359.ml-form-embedContainer .ml-form-embedWrapper .ml-form-embedBody .ml-form-horizontalRow .custom-checkbox .custom-control-label::after {
360        top: 2px;
361        box-sizing: border-box;
362    }
363
364    #mlb2-3154359.ml-form-embedContainer .ml-form-embedWrapper .ml-form-embedBody .ml-form-embedPermissions .ml-form-embedPermissionsOptionsCheckbox .label-description::before, #mlb2-3154359.ml-form-embedContainer .ml-form-embedWrapper .ml-form-embedBody .ml-form-embedPermissions .ml-form-embedPermissionsOptionsCheckbox .label-description::after, #mlb2-3154359.ml-form-embedContainer .ml-form-embedWrapper .ml-form-embedBody .ml-form-checkboxRow .label-description::before, #mlb2-3154359.ml-form-embedContainer .ml-form-embedWrapper .ml-form-embedBody .ml-form-checkboxRow .label-description::after {
365        top: 0px!important;
366        box-sizing: border-box!important;
367    }
368
369    #mlb2-3154359.ml-form-embedContainer .ml-form-embedWrapper .ml-form-embedBody .ml-form-checkboxRow .label-description::before, #mlb2-3154359.ml-form-embedContainer .ml-form-embedWrapper .ml-form-embedBody .ml-form-checkboxRow .label-description::after {
370        top: 0px!important;
371        box-sizing: border-box!important;
372    }
373
374    #mlb2-3154359.ml-form-embedContainer .ml-form-embedWrapper .ml-form-embedBody .ml-form-interestGroupsRow .ml-form-interestGroupsRowCheckbox .label-description::after {
375        top: 0px!important;
376        box-sizing: border-box!important;
377        position: absolute;
378        left: -1.5rem;
379        display: block;
380        width: 1rem;
381        height: 1rem;
382        content: "";
383    }
384
385    #mlb2-3154359.ml-form-embedContainer .ml-form-embedWrapper .ml-form-embedBody .ml-form-interestGroupsRow .ml-form-interestGroupsRowCheckbox .label-description::before {
386        top: 0px!important;
387        box-sizing: border-box!important;
388    }
389
390    #mlb2-3154359.ml-form-embedContainer .ml-form-embedWrapper .ml-form-embedBody .custom-control-label::before {
391        position: absolute;
392        top: 4px;
393        left: -1.5rem;
394        display: block;
395        width: 16px;
396        height: 16px;
397        pointer-events: none;
398        content: "";
399        background-color: #ffffff;
400        border: #adb5bd solid 1px;
401        border-radius: 50%;
402    }
403
404    #mlb2-3154359.ml-form-embedContainer .ml-form-embedWrapper .ml-form-embedBody .custom-control-label::after {
405        position: absolute;
406        top: 2px!important;
407        left: -1.5rem;
408        display: block;
409        width: 1rem;
410        height: 1rem;
411        content: "";
412    }
413
414    #mlb2-3154359.ml-form-embedContainer .ml-form-embedWrapper .ml-form-embedBody .ml-form-embedPermissions .ml-form-embedPermissionsOptionsCheckbox .label-description::before, #mlb2-3154359.ml-form-embedContainer .ml-form-embedWrapper .ml-form-embedBody .ml-form-interestGroupsRow .ml-form-interestGroupsRowCheckbox .label-description::before, #mlb2-3154359.ml-form-embedContainer .ml-form-embedWrapper .ml-form-embedBody .ml-form-checkboxRow .label-description::before {
415        position: absolute;
416        top: 4px;
417        left: -1.5rem;
418        display: block;
419        width: 16px;
420        height: 16px;
421        pointer-events: none;
422        content: "";
423        background-color: #ffffff;
424        border: #adb5bd solid 1px;
425        border-radius: 50%;
426    }
427
428    #mlb2-3154359.ml-form-embedContainer .ml-form-embedWrapper .ml-form-embedBody .ml-form-embedPermissions .ml-form-embedPermissionsOptionsCheckbox .label-description::after {
429        position: absolute;
430        top: 0px!important;
431        left: -1.5rem;
432        display: block;
433        width: 1rem;
434        height: 1rem;
435        content: "";
436    }
437
438    #mlb2-3154359.ml-form-embedContainer .ml-form-embedWrapper .ml-form-embedBody .ml-form-checkboxRow .label-description::after {
439        position: absolute;
440        top: 0px!important;
441        left: -1.5rem;
442        display: block;
443        width: 1rem;
444        height: 1rem;
445        content: "";
446    }
447
448    #mlb2-3154359.ml-form-embedContainer .ml-form-embedWrapper .ml-form-embedBody .custom-radio .custom-control-label::after {
449        background: no-repeat 50%/50% 50%;
450    }
451    #mlb2-3154359.ml-form-embedContainer .ml-form-embedWrapper .ml-form-embedBody .custom-checkbox .custom-control-label::after, #mlb2-3154359.ml-form-embedContainer .ml-form-embedWrapper .ml-form-embedBody .ml-form-embedPermissions .ml-form-embedPermissionsOptionsCheckbox .label-description::after, #mlb2-3154359.ml-form-embedContainer .ml-form-embedWrapper .ml-form-embedBody .ml-form-interestGroupsRow .ml-form-interestGroupsRowCheckbox .label-description::after, #mlb2-3154359.ml-form-embedContainer .ml-form-embedWrapper .ml-form-embedBody .ml-form-checkboxRow .label-description::after {
452        background: no-repeat 50%/50% 50%;
453    }
454
455    #mlb2-3154359.ml-form-embedContainer .ml-form-embedWrapper .ml-form-embedBody .ml-form-fieldRow .custom-control, #mlb2-3154359.ml-form-embedContainer .ml-form-embedWrapper .ml-form-embedBody .ml-form-horizontalRow .custom-control {
456        position: relative;
457        display: block;
458        min-height: 1.5rem;
459        padding-left: 1.5rem;
460    }
461
462    #mlb2-3154359.ml-form-embedContainer .ml-form-embedWrapper .ml-form-embedBody .ml-form-fieldRow .custom-radio .custom-control-input, #mlb2-3154359.ml-form-embedContainer .ml-form-embedWrapper .ml-form-embedBody .ml-form-horizontalRow .custom-radio .custom-control-input, #mlb2-3154359.ml-form-embedContainer .ml-form-embedWrapper .ml-form-embedBody .ml-form-fieldRow .custom-checkbox .custom-control-input, #mlb2-3154359.ml-form-embedContainer .ml-form-embedWrapper .ml-form-embedBody .ml-form-horizontalRow .custom-checkbox .custom-control-input {
463        position: absolute;
464        z-index: -1;
465        opacity: 0;
466        box-sizing: border-box;
467        padding: 0;
468    }
469
470    #mlb2-3154359.ml-form-embedContainer .ml-form-embedWrapper .ml-form-embedBody .ml-form-fieldRow .custom-radio .custom-control-label, #mlb2-3154359.ml-form-embedContainer .ml-form-embedWrapper .ml-form-embedBody .ml-form-horizontalRow .custom-radio .custom-control-label, #mlb2-3154359.ml-form-embedContainer .ml-form-embedWrapper .ml-form-embedBody .ml-form-fieldRow .custom-checkbox .custom-control-label, #mlb2-3154359.ml-form-embedContainer .ml-form-embedWrapper .ml-form-embedBody .ml-form-horizontalRow .custom-checkbox .custom-control-label {
471        color: #000000;
472        font-size: 12px!important;
473        font-family: 'Open Sans', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;
474        line-height: 22px;
475        margin-bottom: 0;
476        position: relative;
477        vertical-align: top;
478        font-style: normal;
479        font-weight: 700;
480    }
481
482    #mlb2-3154359.ml-form-embedContainer .ml-form-embedWrapper .ml-form-embedBody .ml-form-fieldRow .custom-select, #mlb2-3154359.ml-form-embedContainer .ml-form-embedWrapper .ml-form-embedBody .ml-form-horizontalRow .custom-select {
483        background-color: #ffffff !important;
484        color: #333333 !important;
485        border-color: #cccccc;
486        border-radius: 4px !important;
487        border-style: solid !important;
488        border-width: 1px !important;
489        font-family: 'Open Sans', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;
490        font-size: 14px !important;
491        line-height: 20px !important;
492        margin-bottom: 0;
493        margin-top: 0;
494        padding: 10px 28px 10px 12px !important;
495        width: 100% !important;
496        box-sizing: border-box !important;
497        max-width: 100% !important;
498        height: auto;
499        display: inline-block;
500        vertical-align: middle;
501        background: url('https://assets.mlcdn.com/ml/images/default/dropdown.svg') no-repeat right .75rem center/8px 10px;
502        -webkit-appearance: none;
503        -moz-appearance: none;
504        appearance: none;
505    }
506
507
508    #mlb2-3154359.ml-form-embedContainer .ml-form-embedWrapper .ml-form-embedBody .ml-form-horizontalRow {
509        height: auto;
510        width: 100%;
511        float: left;
512    }
513    .ml-form-formContent.horozintalForm .ml-form-horizontalRow .ml-input-horizontal { width: 70%; float: left; }
514    .ml-form-formContent.horozintalForm .ml-form-horizontalRow .ml-button-horizontal { width: 30%; float: left; }
515    .ml-form-formContent.horozintalForm .ml-form-horizontalRow .ml-button-horizontal.labelsOn { padding-top: 25px;  }
516    .ml-form-formContent.horozintalForm .ml-form-horizontalRow .horizontal-fields { box-sizing: border-box; float: left; padding-right: 10px;  }
517    #mlb2-3154359.ml-form-embedContainer .ml-form-embedWrapper .ml-form-embedBody .ml-form-horizontalRow input {
518        background-color: #ffffff;
519        color: #333333;
520        border-color: #cccccc;
521        border-radius: 4px;
522        border-style: solid;
523        border-width: 1px;
524        font-family: 'Open Sans', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;
525        font-size: 14px;
526        line-height: 20px;
527        margin-bottom: 0;
528        margin-top: 0;
529        padding: 10px 10px;
530        width: 100%;
531        box-sizing: border-box;
532        overflow-y: initial;
533    }
534    #mlb2-3154359.ml-form-embedContainer .ml-form-embedWrapper .ml-form-embedBody .ml-form-horizontalRow button {
535        background-color: #9eb438 !important;
536        border-color: #9eb438;
537        border-style: solid;
538        border-width: 1px;
539        border-radius: 4px;
540        box-shadow: none;
541        color: #333333 !important;
542        cursor: pointer;
543        font-family: 'Open Sans', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;
544        font-size: 14px !important;
545        font-weight: 700;
546        line-height: 20px;
547        margin: 0 !important;
548        padding: 10px !important;
549        width: 100%;
550        height: auto;
551    }
552    #mlb2-3154359.ml-form-embedContainer .ml-form-embedWrapper .ml-form-embedBody .ml-form-horizontalRow button:hover {
553        background-color: #f6f6f6 !important;
554        border-color: #f6f6f6 !important;
555    }
556    #mlb2-3154359.ml-form-embedContainer .ml-form-embedWrapper .ml-form-embedBody .ml-form-checkboxRow input[type="checkbox"] {
557        box-sizing: border-box;
558        padding: 0;
559        position: absolute;
560        z-index: -1;
561        opacity: 0;
562        margin-top: 5px;
563        margin-left: -1.5rem;
564        overflow: visible;
565    }
566    #mlb2-3154359.ml-form-embedContainer .ml-form-embedWrapper .ml-form-embedBody .ml-form-checkboxRow .label-description {
567        color: #000000;
568        display: block;
569        font-family: 'Open Sans', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;
570        font-size: 12px;
571        text-align: left;
572        margin-bottom: 0;
573        position: relative;
574        vertical-align: top;
575    }
576    #mlb2-3154359.ml-form-embedContainer .ml-form-embedWrapper .ml-form-embedBody .ml-form-checkboxRow label {
577        font-weight: normal;
578        margin: 0;
579        padding: 0;
580        position: relative;
581        display: block;
582        min-height: 24px;
583        padding-left: 24px;
584
585    }
586    #mlb2-3154359.ml-form-embedContainer .ml-form-embedWrapper .ml-form-embedBody .ml-form-checkboxRow label a {
587        color: #000000;
588        text-decoration: underline;
589    }
590    #mlb2-3154359.ml-form-embedContainer .ml-form-embedWrapper .ml-form-embedBody .ml-form-checkboxRow label p {
591        color: #000000 !important;
592        font-family: 'Open Sans', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif !important;
593        font-size: 12px !important;
594        font-weight: normal !important;
595        line-height: 18px !important;
596        padding: 0 !important;
597        margin: 0 5px 0 0 !important;
598    }
599    #mlb2-3154359.ml-form-embedContainer .ml-form-embedWrapper .ml-form-embedBody .ml-form-checkboxRow label p:last-child {
600        margin: 0;
601    }
602    #mlb2-3154359.ml-form-embedContainer .ml-form-embedWrapper .ml-form-embedBody .ml-form-embedSubmit {
603        margin: 0 0 20px 0;
604        float: left;
605        /*width: 100%;*/
606    }
607    #mlb2-3154359.ml-form-embedContainer .ml-form-embedWrapper .ml-form-embedBody .ml-form-embedSubmit button {
608        background-color: #9eb438 !important;
609        border: none !important;
610        border-radius: 4px !important;
611        box-shadow: none !important;
612        color: #333333 !important;
613        cursor: pointer;
614        font-family: 'Open Sans', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif !important;
615        font-size: 14px !important;
616        font-weight: 700 !important;
617        line-height: 21px !important;
618        height: auto;
619        padding: 10px !important;
620        width: 100% !important;
621        box-sizing: border-box !important;
622    }
623    #mlb2-3154359.ml-form-embedContainer .ml-form-embedWrapper .ml-form-embedBody .ml-form-embedSubmit button.loading {
624        display: none;
625    }
626    #mlb2-3154359.ml-form-embedContainer .ml-form-embedWrapper .ml-form-embedBody .ml-form-embedSubmit button:hover {
627        background-color: #f6f6f6 !important;
628    }
629    .ml-subscribe-close {
630        width: 30px;
631        height: 30px;
632        background: url('https://assets.mlcdn.com/ml/images/default/modal_
632close.png') no-repeat;
633        background-size: 30px;
634        cursor: pointer;
635        margin-top: -10px;
636        margin-right: -10px;
637        position: absolute;
638        top: 0;
639        right: 0;
640    }
641    .ml-error input, .ml-error textarea, .ml-error select {
642        border-color: red!important;
643    }
644
645    .ml-error .custom-checkbox-radio-list {
646        border: 1px solid red !important;
647        border-radius: 4px;
648        padding: 10px;
649    }
650
651    .ml-error .label-description,
652    .ml-error .label-description p,
653    .ml-error .label-description p a,
654    .ml-error label:first-child {
655        color: #ff0000 !important;
656    }
657
658    #mlb2-3154359.ml-form-embedContainer .ml-form-embedWrapper .ml-form-embedBody .ml-form-checkboxRow.ml-error .label-description p,
659    #mlb2-3154359.ml-form-embedContainer .ml-form-embedWrapper .ml-form-embedBody .ml-form-checkboxRow.ml-error .label-description p:first-letter {
660        color: #ff0000 !important;
661    }
662    @media only screen and (max-width: 400px){
663
664        .ml-form-embedWrapper.embedDefault, .ml-form-embedWrapper.embedPopup { width: 100%!important; }
665        .ml-form-formContent.horozintalForm { float: left!important; }
666        .ml-form-formContent.horozintalForm .ml-form-horizontalRow { height: auto!important; width: 100%!important; float: left!important; }
667        .ml-form-formContent.horozintalForm .ml-form-horizontalRow .ml-input-horizontal { width: 100%!important; }
668        .ml-form-formContent.horozintalForm .ml-form-horizontalRow .ml-input-horizontal > div { padding-right: 0px!important; padding-bottom: 10px; }
669        .ml-form-formContent.horozintalForm .ml-button-horizontal { width: 100%!important; }
670        .ml-form-formContent.horozintalForm .ml-button-horizontal.labelsOn { padding-top: 0px!important; }
671
672    }
673</style>
674
675<div id="mlb2-3154359" class="ml-form-embedContainer ml-subscribe-form ml-subscribe-form-3154359">
676    <div class="ml-form-align-center ">
677        <div class="ml-form-embedWrapper embedForm">
678
679
680
681
682            <div class="ml-form-embedBody ml-form-embedBodyDefault row-form">
683
684                <div class="ml-form-embedContent" style="margin-bottom: 0px; ">
685
686                </div>
687
688                <form class="ml-block-form" action="https://assets.mailerlite.com/jsonp/217454/forms/78133619649939200/subscribe" data-code="" method="post" target="_blank">
689                    <div class="ml-form-formContent">
690
691
692
693                        <div class="ml-form-fieldRow ml-last-item">
694                            <div class="ml-field-group ml-field-email ml-validate-email ml-validate-required">
695
696
697
698
699                                <!-- input -->
700                                <input aria-label="email" aria-required="true" type="email" class="form-control" data-inputmask="" name="fields[email]" placeholder="Email" autocomplete="email">
701                                <!-- /input -->
702
703                                <!-- textarea -->
704
705                                <!-- /textarea -->
706
707                                <!-- select -->
708
709                                <!-- /select -->
710
711                                <!-- checkboxes -->
712
713                                <!-- /checkboxes -->
714
715                                <!-- radio -->
716
717                                <!-- /radio -->
718
719                                <!-- countries -->
720
721                                <!-- /countries -->
722
723
724
725
726
727                            </div>
728                        </div>
729
730                    </div>
731
732
733
734                    <!-- Privacy policy -->
735
736                    <!-- /Privacy policy -->
737
738
739                    <input type="hidden" name="ml-submit" value="1">
740
741                    <div class="ml-form-embedSubmit">
742
743                        <button type="submit" class="primary">Subscribe</button>
744
745                        <button disabled="disabled" style="display: none;" type="button" class="loading">
746                            <div class="ml-form-embedSubmitLoad"></div>
747                            <span class="sr-only">Loading...</span>
748                        </button>
749                    </div>
750
751
752                    <input type="hidden" name="anticsrf" value="true">
753                </form>
754            </div>
755
756            <div class="ml-form-successBody row-success" style="display: none">
757
758                <div class="ml-form-successContent">
759
760                    <h4>Thank you!</h4>
761
762                    <p>You have successfully joined our subscriber list.</p>
763
764
765                </div>
766
767            </div>
768        </div>
769    </div>
770</div>
771
772
773
774
775
776<script>
777    function ml_webform_success_3154359() {
778        var $ = ml_jQuery || jQuery;
779        $('.ml-subscribe-form-3154359 .row-success').show();
780        $('.ml-subscribe-form-3154359 .row-form').hide();
781    }
782</script>
782
783
784
785<script src="https://groot.mailerlite.com/js/w/webforms.min.js?v300817f630ad0e957914d0b28a2b6d78" type="text/javascript"></script>
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785
786<script>
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