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The Catholic Church opposes active euthanasia and physician-assisted suicide on the grounds that life is a gift from God and should not be prematurely shortened. However, the church allows dying people to refuse extraordinary treatments that would minimally prolong life without hope of recovery, [5] a form of passive euthanasia.
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Catholic teaching purports that euthanasia is a "crime against life". [1] The teaching of the Catholic Church on euthanasia rests on several core principles of Catholic ethics, including the sanctity of human life , the dignity of the human person, concomitant human rights , due proportionality in casuistic remedies, the unavoidability of death ...
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According to euthanasia opponent Ezekiel Emanuel, proponents of euthanasia have presented four main arguments: a) that people have a right to self-determination, and thus should be allowed to choose their own fate; b) assisting a subject to die might be a better choice than requiring that they continue to suffer; c) the distinction between ...
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A 35-year-old veterinarian took his own life after enduring significant stress in both his personal and professional life. Dr. John Ellis reportedly requested a large dose of a drug used to ...
The position of the Catholic Church has not changed and evolved little since the Old Testament ban. The last Roman pontiffs have all reaffirmed the ban on euthanasia. The Encyclical Evangelium vitae of Saint John Paul II, of March 25, 1995, is a clear and firm text: “euthanasia is therefore a crime that no human law can claim to legitimize.