And life in constant excruciating pain with no hope of ever alleviating it is not worth living.
In that situation, we can unite our suffering to Christ's, and it will not only be a golden path to heaven, but it can be offered for the suffering and salvation of others and sanctify the whole world. That life of pain is not only worth living--it is the life of a hero, the life of a saint.
"Greater love hath no man than this, that he lay down his life for his friends."
It has been so long since the concept of redemptive suffering has been taught from the pulpit that it can almost be regarded as a lost concept.
I was raised Catholic. It wasn’t until adulthood that I began to actually read the Bible beyond the snippets we’d get at Mass. One of the things I was surprised to learn was not in it is the phrase “God never gives you more than you can handle.”
That phrase isn’t in there because sometimes he does. I would never post as you did and basically say that “any true Catholic Christian” would just tough it out and not even consider the option. Life is a very different journey for each of us, and I would never presume to judge someone who was driven over the edge. You haven’t walked in his shoes or my shoes and I haven’t walked in yours.
Dennis Prager is Jewish, his stepson’s father might have been too.