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  • Playing God: Do no harm? End-of-life ethics in a ‘death with dignity’ culture

    07/01/2013 1:07:54 PM PDT · by Welchie25 · 10 replies
    Catholic Review ^ | June 30, 2013 | Maria Wiering
    After concelebrating his cousins’ confirmation Mass, Father Bialek walked out the front door of St. Ursula late in the evening May 18 to commotion near the intersection. He went over to help, and saw his parents, who had just left the Mass, injured in the road, hit by a pickup as they were crossing a street. His mother, Sharon, 67, was unconscious. Physicians at Baltimore’s Shock Trauma Center told Father Bialek and his father that Sharon had suffered severe brain damage and likely would not regain consciousness or live without a respirator. They also discovered the return of the ovarian...