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Our culture's acceptance of mercy-killing logically entails imposition of the duty to murder on health-care personnel. If someone has the "right" to end their own life or another person's life on the grounds of avoiding suffering and expense, then health care professionals have a "duty" to provide that "health care." | |||
== Catechism == | |||
:; [http://www.scborromeo.org/ccc/p3s2c2a5.htm#2324 CCC 2324] | |||
:: Intentional '''euthanasia''', whatever its forms or motives, '''is murder'''. It is gravely contrary to the dignity of the human person and to the respect due to the living God, his Creator. | |||
:; [http://www.scborromeo.org/ccc/p3s2c2a5.htm#2277 CCC 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. | |||
== References == | |||
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== Links == | |||
* UK and [http://www.ncregister.com/daily-news/massachusetts-considers-legalizing-assisted-suicide/ Massachussetts] both approaching legalization of physician-assisted suicide. Washington and Oregon already have such laws on the books. | * UK and [http://www.ncregister.com/daily-news/massachusetts-considers-legalizing-assisted-suicide/ Massachussetts] both approaching legalization of physician-assisted suicide. Washington and Oregon already have such laws on the books. | ||
* [[Suicide]]. | * [[Suicide]]. | ||
Revision as of 16:53, 26 August 2012
Our culture's acceptance of mercy-killing logically entails imposition of the duty to murder on health-care personnel. If someone has the "right" to end their own life or another person's life on the grounds of avoiding suffering and expense, then health care professionals have a "duty" to provide that "health care."
Catechism
- Intentional euthanasia, whatever its forms or motives, is murder. It is gravely contrary to the dignity of the human person and to the respect due to the living God, his Creator.
- 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.
References
Links
- UK and Massachussetts both approaching legalization of physician-assisted suicide. Washington and Oregon already have such laws on the books.
- Suicide.
- "Our Neurotic Fear of Suffering."
- The culture of death turns the alleged "right to die" into a "duty to die" to serve others.