Posted on 11/05/2014 2:42:58 PM PST by MNDude
VATICAN CITY – The Vatican's top bioethics official on Tuesday called "reprehensible" the suicide of an American woman suffering terminal brain cancer who stated she wanted to die with dignity.
Monsignor Ignacio Carrasco de Paula, the head of the Pontifical Academy for Life, told the ANSA news agency that "dignity is something other than putting an end to one's own life."
Brittany Maynard's suicide in Oregon on Saturday, following a public declaration of her motives aimed at sparking political action on the issue, has stirred debate over assisted suicide for the terminally ill.
Carrasco de Paula said "Brittany Maynard's act is in itself reprehensible, but what happened in the consciousness we do not know."
He cautioned that he was not judging individuals "but the gesture in and of itself should be condemned."
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Brittany Maynard was not Roman Catholic.
It’s a dead Democrat. I fail to see a down side. (Other than the fact that she no doubt voted, yesterday.)
There’s just no way I can condemn her actions. We’re kept alive “pharmaceutically” and “mechanically” way beyond our time in many cases.
Indeed. A year ago my then two-year-old was being kept alive with inhaled steroids and albuterol. We should have just given her a lethal dose of what Brittany’s doc gave her! What were we thinking?
We’re really not talking the same thing are we.
I get creeped out at how she made such an issue of it. She came across as emotionally immature and unaware of the REALITY that she was to the bone, killing herself. She went on a few ‘farewell’ trips and posted herself all over her website, then went on PEOPLE magazine to make it sound like she was being actively prevented from killing herself, and now I’m supposed to celebrate this? Like she graduated high school? Or as if she won some kind of prestigious award!?
She is DEAD right now and never coming back. She killed herself surrounded by friends and family who were essentially cheering her on. Now she’s supposed to be some poster child for choice?
What freaked me out is that I saw some posting on FaceBook that said “Brittany (or whatever) just killed herself). That article had thousands of “Likes”.
I guarantee that more than a handful of teenage girls going through tough times will decide it’s ok to end it all because of the drama and heroic imagine created from all this.
people of that age are just not mature or wise enough IMO...they don't see the big picture....they have no life experience....
She did a post birth abortion.
She is probably enjoying Robin Williams’ comedy right now.
My Mother suffered with ALS for 4 years and NEVER once regretted her decision to use artificial means to keep herself alive. She taught me what matters most during this time.
My dad had polio twice. He always told us no matter what condition he was in, not to pull the plug. You just never know what people are able to survive.
What an inspiration you Dad must have been. +
I will never understand why people give up on life and the life of other people they can bring into this world.
God has a plan for everyone!
She was certainly one to be pitied. But she did not deserve one iota of admiration.
We need a Synod to decide if suicides can receive Communion.
Suicide is wrong for all people.
Of course we are. Somebody receives a diagnosis that is terminal and decides to have a doc kill her by giving her pills. My daughter was life flighted twice and in pediatric ICU thrice. She almost died more than once. It would have been a terrible way to die, slowly suffocating while the body goes into shock. We were told that we might not ever get it under control. It was essentially a death sentence, especially since all the experts couldn’t figure out her trigger. Then we received an obamacare letter from our private insurance telling us the steroid inhaler was subject to “quantity limitations.” You see, this woman chose to die. This opens the floodgates for death panel justification. My daughter was death paneled. I hope your loved ones are not. I loved my daughter enough to encourage her to fight.
I thought it was creepy. I’m sure there are others who were suffering greatly who quietly took their own lives. The grandstanding she did and announcing what day she would die. No disrespect....but certainly sounds like an attention whore to me. I cant see how news crews camped outside your home waiting for you to “do it” is death with dignity.
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