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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 ...
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.
A memorandum of the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith on "Worthiness to Receive Holy Communion", signed by its Prefect Cardinal Joseph Ratzinger and published in July 2004, declared that, if a Catholic politician's formal cooperation in "the grave sin of abortion or euthanasia" becomes manifest by "consistently campaigning and voting ...
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Joseph Fletcher, “Ethics and Euthanasia,” in Horan and Mall, eds., Death, Dying, and Euthanasia, p. 301. "People [with children with Down's syndrome ]... have no reason to feel guilty about putting a Down's syndrome baby away, whether it's "put away" in the sense of hidden in a sanitarium or in a more responsible lethal sense.
Animal Euthanasia is a very common practice and generally considered ‘merciful’. The Suicide in Veterinary Professionals study (Ogden, et al., 2012), found that tolerance to animal Euthanasia showed no correlation to tolerance for human Euthanasia or the ending of human life (Ogden, et al., 2012).
The 2022 Best Friends National Conference aimed to help save the lives of dogs and cats in overflowing animal shelters across the country. Here’s what attendees learned.
Catholic protests against the escalation of this policy into "euthanasia" began in the summer of 1940. Despite Nazi efforts to transfer hospitals to state control, large numbers of disabled people were still under the care of the Churches. Caritas was the chief organisation running such care services for the Catholic Church.