It’s neither heroic or cowardly. It’s a personal decision, and unless she was a Catholic the church’s opinion is irrelevant.
Yet, she made it everyone’s business and so it wasn’t personal, but public.
Additionally, this woman wanted to be a poster child for assisted suicide, yet another plank of the leftist platform of paganizing America and the world. Like homosexuality, pornography, abortion, and heterosexual promiscuity, what starts out as a cultural taboo is promoted to the point that it becomes the norm in society. With health care rationing on the horizon (except, of course, the wealthy and politically connected), the powers that be would like to encourage this variety of homicide in all 50 states.
Even if the Republicans do well tomorrow and recapture the White House in two years, Obamacare will not go away. From Eisenhower to Bush the younger, the GOP has repealed few, if any, of the Democrats' social programs when in power.
She chose not to follow the example of Christ by joining her suffering to his on the Cross.
This is flat out denial of God and a sin against the Holy Spirit with is a sin that cannot be forgiven, either by a priest or by God.
She would have been much better off to suffer with Christ, rather than doom herself to eternal fire, don’t you agree?
“It’s neither heroic or cowardly.”
It has to be one or the other: someone’s life was ended on purpose - not by nature, not by accident.
“It’s a personal decision, and unless she was a Catholic the church’s opinion is irrelevant.”
God’s opinion is never irrelevant and that’s what the Church is sharing. If self-murder and God’s opinion about it is irrelevant, then we are truly lost as a society.