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I do not care to continue this verbal badminton with you any longer.

I am also pro-life, up close and more personal than I care to share in a public forum, and have remained so for 7 decades.

Your condemnation of Catholic Hospice care might appear to some of us to be “Catholic bashing”, because it certainly doesn’t fit my experience (not RCatholic, but Anglican). They were dedicated to keep my husband alive, with me, comfortable, eating and drinking as much as humanly possible.

I sense that you have an agenda, and if so, there is no point in discussing it further. I believe in life, as you do, but we part ways when we get “technical” about how far to go when bodily systems have shut down, when more intervention is only for us, not those we love so much.

You have made your case, and I have made mine. Neither of us know the mind of God, and all any of us can do in our personal decisions is the best we can, given the information we have at the moment.

That, I pray, is all that is expected of us, except the humility to know how much we do not know.

Good night.

Your condemnation of Catholic Hospice care

I'm not condemning Catholic Hospice care. I work for and am helping expand access to good Catholic Hospice care.

I follow the Church's directives on nutrition and hydration, ordinary vs extraordinary. That's my sole "agenda."

I sense that you have an agenda

The group I'm chairing is

dedicated to promoting and developing pro-life alternatives within the healthcare field, to combat the threat that the rationing of care and euthanasia pose to our vulnerable, sick, elderly and dying. We are setting up a pro-life hotline and a network of pro-life healthcare providers, facilities and institutions to help those threatened by health care rationing and the pressures for euthanasia. We are also working on developing a network of patient care advocates to help people navigate the landmine that our healthcare system is rapidly becoming.
To do this we are networking with established pro-life groups and healthcare organizations. In the future we hope to help grassroots pro-life healthcare providers and facilities (like our Catholic Hospice) get off the ground and fill in the gaps of the pro-life infrastructure to provide pro-life care at end of life.

More than likely we have far more in common than we do differences, we've just unfortunately found ourselves on opposite ends of very trying situations with loved ones we held dear.

I felt personally attacked by your posts on this thread, so my responses were probably stronger than they could have been. If so, my apologies.