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Posted on 09/24/2007 3:11:29 PM PDT by presidio9
A new article by an Italian medical professor speculates the death of Pope John Paul the Second was caused by euthanasia. According to "TIME" magazine, an intensive care specialist says the Pope's death would be considered euthanasia by standards set by the Catholic Church. The doctor bases her conclusion on press reports and a book written by the Pope's physician. She says the decision not to insert a feeding tube until just a few days before his death accelerated the death of the ailing pontiff. Plus, the doctor believes the Pope himself made the decision not to insert the tube after consulting with medical professionals. He had been hospitalized twice before his 2005 death. Catholics are told to take any effort to prolong life. The article appears in an Italian magazine critical of the church's stance on medical ethics. The doctor says she decided to revisit the Pope's death after a recent ruling by the Catholic Church on euthanasia.
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Like anorexics, right?
Your reasoning is clumsy.
Geez, I can't imagine losing a desire to live. If I ever do, just kill me.
j/k
Did he normally pray in English or was Polish or Latin his choice?
I may be dense. But if that's the case; where does the euthanasia allegation come from?
my mother literally pulled the tube out. she only put it in to satisfy her kids. she was ready go. what tjhe secularists will never understand is that it is not about life vs death, it’s about LIFE.
One wonders what they would accomplish if they tried doing something constructive for a change.
Um, no.
Is this professor possibly trying to encourage legislation allowing euthansia and thus trying to drum up support by speculating about the Pope?
D’oh! Make that euthanasia. Ought to pay attention to those little red lines under the words in preview!!
If ONLY someone - anyone - would euthanize the entire editorial board at TIME . . . talk about a tired old rag, taking up space and using up trees.
Great picture!!!!!!! Two magnificent creations from God
Great picture!!!!!!! Two magnificent creations from God
Actually the Pope, by choosing NOT to prolong his own life was simply exercising his God-given rights. He knew he was dying, and saw no need to prolong the process by artificial feeding methods. Since HE was making that decision for himself, and someone else wasn't forcing it on him, he didn't violate any Church teachings.
Hello. I have just registered on FR after lurking for a long time. The subject of this thread is something that has been troubling me for months now.
Last Christmas, my mother had her third and most serious stroke. She was 85. Her throat muscles were paralyzed as was her left arm, and she was a little hazy in her thinking, but her heart rate and blood pressure were both good.
She stopped eating, and refused a tube, taking only sips of water. She refused all forms of therapy (rehab,etc.) despite the most urgent pleas of her family and health care professionals. She just told us that her whole body was failing, the thought of eating made her sick and it was time to go.
By April, she had died, peacefully and in her own bed. But my brothers and sisters and I are still torn up from the experience. We keep thinking, she could have gone a couple of more years, but that’s pretty selfish, right?
What do you guys think?
It’s just more Catholic-bashing by a physician who doesn’t even have access to the Pope’s medical chart, let alone direct knowledge of his state of mind. It’s all wild speculation designed to defame the Pope and his church.
The Pope died a natural death. Only this unnatural age would find that somehow mystifying or mysterious.
I think your Mom beat the odds by about 7 or 8 years. She let go of the pole on the merry-go-round when she realized the ride was no longer fun. My Mom did the exact same thing. I’m glad she didn’t continue to suffer and I’m glad I didn’t have to watch her suffer.
First, welcome to FR! It sounds like it was a quality of life issue for her, something that we probably won’t appreciate until we get to be that age.
The Pope MAY have been a Methodist.
The Pope MAY have been an Alien.
Good Grief.
She was a lifelong Catholic. So you can see what a troubling issue this is.
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