That was an excellant post. I know what the maority of people would answer and we have the stats that over 80% of the population ( Christians included) would also NOT chose to stay in a PVS.
The church is pretty hypocritical on these medical dillemas. There was a time, not too long ago, when people died "naturally" cause we didn't have the medical advances we now have. So how is it that the Church ok's artifical insemination ( talk about UN natural ) yet will not allow an "end point" to be decided when Un-natural means are used to keep a person alive.
"end point" to be decided
frightening. you don't see the slippery slope in that statement?
maybe the church doesn't think that is okay to kill people, maybe the church knows that food does not equal health care, maybe the church knows that people still die "naturally"...unless you know of someone who is going to live forever.
Terri didn't "chose" her state either, she just is.
*****The church is pretty hypocritical on these medical dillemas. There was a time, not too long ago, when people died "naturally" cause we didn't have the medical advances we now have. So how is it that the Church ok's artifical insemination ( talk about UN natural ) yet will not allow an "end point" to be decided when Un-natural means are u
used to keep a person alive.*****
Adapted from Modern Catholic Dictionary:
"Artificial Insemination (AI) is different from natural intercourse. As used with animals this poses no moral problem. However the Church teaches that among humans, AI violates the dignity of the person and the sanctity of marriage. It is therefore contrary to the Natural and Divine Law. In an address to Catholic doctors, Pope Pius XII condemned AI. It is condemned because a third person becoming involved in a marriage is like "mechanical adultery": the donor fathers a child (with his sperm) yet he has no responsibility to the child; and a process that isolates the sacred act of creating life from the marriage union is a violation of the marriage union (which alone is the way to create life). However, if the marriage act is preserved, then various clinical techniques designed to help create new life are not to be condemned."
You should have been a little more specific. The Church says AI is permissible as long as the couple is married and uses the man's semen. Still unnatural, yes.