People who actually have dignity will still have it at the time of death no matter how undignified they appear.
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Lets just change what we call it and maybe people won’t notice. Like calling abortion and infant murder “choice”
“Under passive euthanasia, death is caused by the natural course of a disease or trauma and life-sustaining medical interventions may be withdrawn, not so much to end life as to avoid prolonging the process of dying.”
I don’t see how they can call just plain dying “passive euthanasia”. I have a good friend who recently (in the last two or three months) was diagnosed with a virulent, incurable cancer. Within days of hospital admission, he was put on a ventilator, and thus under sedation. He could not breathe on his own. His wife was told that there was no possibility of cure or halting the spread of disease, and they needed his permission to withdraw the ventilator. So they un-sedated him, asked him, and he agreed. He left this world not long after. This was NOT euthanasia, passive or active.
And his departure was with dignity, regardless of his physical condition. He was fully prepared to meet God.
The Catechism of the Catholic Church
Euthanasia
2276 Those whose lives are diminished or weakened deserve special respect. Sick or handicapped persons should be helped to lead lives as normal as possible.
2277 Whatever its motives and means, direct euthanasia consists in putting an end to the lives of handicapped, sick, or dying persons. It is morally unacceptable.
Thus an act or omission which, of itself or by intention, causes death in order to eliminate suffering constitutes a murder gravely contrary to the dignity of the human person and to the respect due to the living God, his Creator. The error of judgment into which one can fall in good faith does not change the nature of this murderous act, which must always be forbidden and excluded.
2278 Discontinuing medical procedures that are burdensome, dangerous, extraordinary, or disproportionate to the expected outcome can be legitimate; it is the refusal of "over-zealous" treatment. Here one does not will to cause death; one's inability to impede it is merely accepted. The decisions should be made by the patient if he is competent and able or, if not, by those legally entitled to act for the patient, whose reasonable will and legitimate interests must always be respected.
2279 Even if death is thought imminent, the ordinary care owed to a sick person cannot be legitimately interrupted. The use of painkillers to alleviate the sufferings of the dying, even at the risk of shortening their days, can be morally in conformity with human dignity if death is not willed as either an end or a means, but only foreseen and tolerated as inevitable Palliative care is a special form of disinterested charity. As such it should be encouraged.