The Catholic View of Euthanasia

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The catholic view of euthanasia is that euthanasia is morally wrong. it has always been

taught the importance of the commandement "you shall not kill". The church has said that

"nothing and no one can in any way permit the killing of an innocent person, whether a

foetus or an embryo, an infant or an adult, an old person, or one suffering from an incurable

disease, or a person who is dying". the church says any law permitting euthanasia is a unjust

law. the catholic church does not accept that people have a right to die. Euthanasia and

suicide are both gods power over out life and death. a person who insists that they have the

right to die is breaking their vital relationship with god. Refusing aggressive medical

treatment The church says that it is acceptable to refuse extraordinary and aggressive

medical means to preserve life. Refusing such treatment is not euthanasia but an acceptance

death, because it's wrong to commit suicide, it is also wrong to have assisted suicide and

have someone to kill you.

Physician Assisted Suicide is when a physician supplies information

and/or means of committing suicide. This can be a prescription for a lethal dose of sleeping pills

or a supply of carbon monoxide gas. These are just some examples of what a physician might

give to a patient requesting to be assisted in committing suicide.

Active Euthanasia involves causing the death of a person through direct action, in response

to a request from that person. Involuntary Euthanasia is used to describe the killing of a person

who has not explicitly requested aid in dying. This is most often done to patients who are in a

persistent vegetative state and will probably never recover consciousness. ...

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...ital would be too expensive and would just eat up government funds.

There are some arguments for assisted suicide and Respect for autonomy is one of them. A competent person should have the right to choose to live or die. Justice is another. Competent terminally ill patients are allowed to hasten their deaths by refusal of medication. Physician assisted suicide may be a compassionate response to unbearable sufferings. Although society has a strong interest in preserving life, that interest lessens when a person is terminally ill and has a strong desire to end life. Lastly, legalization of assisted suicide would promote open discussion. These arguments make it hard to go along with the arguments against assisted suicide.

Religious believers feel that we should trust the medical experts to

preserve life and have faith in God to decide when we should die.

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