He’s under no obligation, even as a Catholic, to receive possibly life-extending care that he doesn’t want, or to accept operations for other conditions that may not be life-threatening or even those that are. It is not permitted to hasten his death or do something that will ensure it, but he doesn’t have to go on forever accepting treatment.
I think what concerns people here is that in the future, it’s not going to be you who is making that decision for your father, but instead it will be the government deciding what is best...for the government.
They are going to constantly reduce the care available to people. First it will be for the elderly who have multiple health problems, particularly Alzheimers, and then more and more people will somehow become expendable. And it won’t be voluntary.
Something nobody mentions in this is that such an approach also reduces the impetus to do medical research. Researches are actually working on a gene therapy approach to Alzheimers that not only halts it but reverses it, and results in animal trials have been very promising. But if it becomes the rule just to kill people with certain conditions, why bother with research and cures?
So when options for care are limited BY the Rats, then the lack good alternatives to death will make for a desperate disabled and aged population.
Evil has no bounds.