Posted on 11/12/2006 5:21:18 PM PST by xzins
Euthanasia
2276
Those whose lives are diminished or weakened deserve special respect. Sick or handicapped persons should be helped to lead lives as normal as possible.
2277
Whatever its motives and means, direct euthanasia consists in putting an end to the lives of handicapped, sick, or dying persons. It is morally unacceptable.
Thus an act or omission which, of itself or by intention, causes death in order to eliminate suffering constitutes a murder gravely contrary to the dignity of the human person and to the respect due to the living God, his Creator. The error of judgment into which one can fall in good faith does not change the nature of this murderous act, which must always be forbidden and excluded.
2278
Discontinuing medical procedures that are burdensome, dangerous, extraordinary, or disproportionate to the expected outcome can be legitimate; it is the refusal of "over-zealous" treatment. Here one does not will to cause death; one's inability to impede it is merely accepted. The decisions should be made by the patient if he is competent and able or, if not, by those legally entitled to act for the patient, whose reasonable will and legitimate interests must always be respected.
2279
Even if death is thought imminent, the ordinary care owed to a sick person cannot be legitimately interrupted. The use of painkillers to alleviate the sufferings of the dying, even at the risk of shortening their days, can be morally in conformity with human dignity if death is not willed as either an end or a means, but only foreseen and tolerated as inevitable. Palliative care is a special form of disinterested charity. As such it should be encouraged.
Won't be long now. Seems the ride down the slide is getting steeper.
In early Nazi Germany, and in the US and England of the time, there was a movement pushing that very thing. It was considered "Better for the Children of the future" of all unfit were sterilized or killed.
Read "The War Against the Weak" by E. Black. Mr. Black is/was a dyed in the wool liberal, but had the guts to take a look at one of the lefts sacred cows.
Yeah, St. Andrew and Jesus and all...those guys (and gals, like St. Pelagia of Antioch) could have avoided death, but didn't. "So-called Christians," eh?
Sorry, but for CENTURIES after Christ's life and death, Christians would look forward to death as a chance to be with their Lord, and a love of life was viewed as being tied too strongly to this temporal existence.
"How soon before the church starts performing abortions?"
"Pastor" Ignacio Castuero is the "chaplain" for Planned Parenthood....does kind of make you wonder.
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Wesley must have saw the handwriting on the wall over two hundred years ago.
I hope you're not equating "right to die" and abortion to martyrdom for the cause of Christ!
Agreed. Otherwise, Adolf Hitler was merely seventy years ahead of his time.
This is apostasy, plain and simple. It can't be sugarcoated.
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