Pope Francis to Belgian Catholics: Stop Offering Euthanasia

Pope Francis to Belgian Catholics: Stop Offering Euthanasia Sept 17, 2017 23:17:39 GMT

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Post by Deleted on Sept 17, 2017 23:17:39 GMT

Sept 17, 2017 20:31:59 GMT cupcakes said:

^tpfkar

Sept 17, 2017 19:14:44 GMT @miccee said:

I would consider it to be very unlikely that there would be absolutely no doctor willing to write the prescription. If that did turn out to be the case, then I suppose it would end up being somewhat like the abortion issue wherein the doctor would be expected to keep their religious beliefs compartmentalised to their private life and not let it interfere with their job. But I think that it would be unlikely for it to come to that.

The number of "wrongful death" lawsuits would rise astronomically.

Morally I would be fine with post-birth abortions, but I realise that this would probably be too radical to ever be implemented.

If the right to die were enshrined into law (i.e. the fact that people can commit suicide does not make it a legally guaranteed right), and every case of assisted dying was properly documented, then those wrongful death lawsuits could go nowhere.

That highlights conspicuously how few are actually both serious and deliberative.

I grant that some 'suicide attempts' are neither serious nor deliberative (a teenage girl taking a handful of aspirin from the bathroom cupboard is the archetypical example of this), but many attempts which are both very serious and very delberative can go wrong. Even stepping in front of a train moving at 80mph has been known to fail to kill a person.

Help to make their lives as enjoyable as possible. If they refuse nutrition or any other treatment then help to make them as comfortable as possible.

That is a vile and cruel insult to someone who cannot do anything at all for themselves. And refusal of nutrition is a legal grey area.