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Catholic Attitude to
Euthanasia
- Belief in the sanctity of life
- It is murder which is condemned in the Ten commandments
- Life is sacred and only God has the right to take it away.
- There is always a point to suffering.
- The painless killing of someone dying from a
paingul disease
- It allows the switching of life
support if the patient is clinically
dead.
- It is not wrong if
medical treatment is
withheld and the
person dies.
- It is only Euthanasia if the aim of your actions is to kill the person, not to relieve pain.
- DOUBLE EFFECT: It is not wrong to give someone a large dose if
painkillers if they are in serious pain and they die from it.
- Euthanasia is often a case of whether the person's quality of life is well enough
for them to carry on living, e.g. if they cannot move or communicate.
- "I have come that you might have life in all its Fullness" John 10:10
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