[Chapter 5. End of life and handicap: what "theology" can bring to the capability approach]

By adressing specifically the issue of handicap at the end of life, I will question theology in the frame of a capability approach. In what sense theology in its analogical sense can find its place in the contemporary approach of capabilization? Can it extend the meaning of capabilities? If it first puts in perspective a relational and contextual web of those who experience a shared experience; I will then argue that it invites to a certain prudence towards the concept of handicap and end of life. The risk of closure, rather than openness to an experience of growth for the subject who is able to confront this experience is to be avoided.