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Posted on 11/02/2015 7:43:23 AM PST by wagglebee
Recently the culture of death took the ambiguous term “natural death” and adapted it to fit into its roadmap to hell.
For Catholics, the phrase “natural death” is best identified with the Catechism of the Catholic Church, which teaches that “death is the end of earthly life,” not the death of the soul, and states, “In a sense bodily death is natural.”
Catholic statements on the right to life usually include: “The Church affirms the right to life of all persons, from conception to natural death.”
But as we have shown elsewhere, the word “conception” is erroneous in today’s topsy-turvy world where respect for the dignity of the human being has run amuck and words mean whatever the gatekeepers say they mean. You can bet that any time a word can be twisted to excuse killing the innocent, it will be.
As early as 1915, eugenicists such as Dr. Harry Haiselden, Edward Clapham, and others were claiming that “defective” newborn babies could be left to die because “a natural death is its natural right.”
Presumably one could say that, in one form or another, language has become the tool of every evil act known to man. And that is how we arrive at the juncture between what the term “natural death” might mean in a sane world where natural law principles hold sway and what it means today.
These two words recently appeared in California’s brand new assisted suicide law, signed by Governor Jerry Brown a couple of weeks ago. Contained in this law—the End of Life Option Act (ABX2-15)—is this phrase: “Notwithstanding any other law, a qualified individual’s act of self-administering an aid-in-dying drug shall not have an effect upon a life, health, or annuity policy other than that of a natural death from the underlying disease.”
To be perfectly clear, that single sentence excuses those who help someone take his own life by saying that even though an “assisted suicide” has occurred, it is in fact a “natural death.”
Scary? Well, that’s the way the culture of death operates.
You see, in the state of California it took the pro-death zealots more than a quarter of a century to garner the support required to have such a law passed. And as we know, California has been an abortion-state since the late 1960s. Evidently legalized murder continues unabated—and even welcomed.
Attorney Margaret Dore, who practices law in Washington state where assisted suicide is already legal, took a look at this California law and wrote:
In Washington state, similar language, interpreted by the Department of Health, requires medical examiners, coroners and prosecuting attorneys to certify a death as “natural” if Washington’s assisted suicide law was used. If California follows this interpretation, no matter what the facts, even a “murder for the money” will be certified as natural if the California bill is used. The significance will be a lack of transparency and a legal inability to prosecute criminal behavior. The opportunity will be created for the perfect crime.
The “perfect crime”—a term that brings to mind Planned Parenthood’s perfect crimes as it continues to slice and dice aborted children, even apparently targeting some babies with the illegal partial birth abortion procedure. How can we be so blind? Partial birth abortion is illegal—unless you are Planned Parenthood. And by the same token, intentionally killing the sick is also illegal—unless you hide behind “natural death” rhetoric.
Disgusting, isn’t it?
The reaction of the public is always muted when we discuss these matters, but that does not change reality. Aleksander Solzhenitsyn put the situation into perfect perspective when, during his Templeton Address in 1983, he stated, “Men have forgotten God; that’s why all this is happening.”
Naturally!
Scary, but true.
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"The logical import of Obama's vote against BAIPA [Born-Alive Infant Protection Act] is that he disagrees, i.e., once a baby has been targeted for abortion it thereafter has no inherent right to the food, comfort, and medical care provided to other babies born alive.
Indeed, during Illinois state senate deliberations on BAIPA, Obama stated that one of his objections was that the bill was "designed to burden the original decision of the woman and the physician to induce labor and perform an abortion." Apparently, once the decision to abort has been made, a child is doomed even if born alive."
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Maybe the time has come to make it unabashedly about God. Life ought to be offered unto Him from start to finish.
Arguing definitions without that context is asking for man’s definitions to come to the fore.
It’s possible that people might misconstrue “God” too, but that can’t be helped once one has done the best to illustrate explicate gospel and still not been accepted. There is a time to hold them and a time to fold them; Christians can’t be world police.
When our first father and mother ate the forbidden fruit, sin entered the world. Before that they had full loving communion with God and with each other. Nothing died, everything was in harmony and everything was perfect for them. Fresh food was provided daily ripened to perfection. They didn't have to 'work' and merely tended to the perfect garden they lived in.
Had they not sinned, their role would be to extend the garden going forth and multiplying.
Instead of a fractured society, they would have known all their offspring and posterity and would have been known completely by them. We cannot comprehend the order and perfection this would have been because we live in a chaotic world full of errors and the pervasive sin nature.
Death, on the other hand, came through sin (Romans 5:12) and the result of all those cumulative errors upon our world. It is not natural, it is the result of sin and the cumulative effect of the inherited sin nature.
Death was not part of the original creation.
Natural death is the transition from perception to truth.
In fact, using “natural” as benchmark has pitfalls beyond this.
The church has gotten so churchy about the world, that it has forgotten a God perspective, at least IMHO and as a gross generalization, there are congregations that are exceptions to this and God is pleased when they are.
IMHO if you are normal and natural... you’re not even getting close to where God wants you to be. Godliness is abnormal. It’s abnormal because to be wicked is normal here.
When a human life's beginning can be legally defined as any point past conception then it can be arbitrarily redefined as any other point up to death.
True. Death is often redefined to a point prior to actual death. As in the case of Terri Schiavo, and countless others. Haleigh Poutre was defined as dead. She’s now a young woman living happily with her new family.
We went through seven family members dying over a seven year period. I learned that when it’s time to die, everyone knows it is out of our hands. At that point you just make it as pain free, peaceful and loving as you can as their spirits leave their bodies.
Terry was not ready to die as she had family desiring to care for her and could have survived with that care. She was murdered by her husband and the State.
Seven deaths in as many years. That must have been very hard on the family. God bless you.
It was a marathon. : (
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