Doctor Lina Pavonelli wrote in her book that the Pope John Paul II died by Euthanasia according to the Catholic Church. And that the Pope refused the treatment because he considered it disproporcionated.
Let’s read the Cathechism of the Catholic Church:
2278 Discontinuing medical procedures that are burdensome, dangerous, extraordinary, or disproportionate to the expected outcome can be legitimate; it is the refusal of "over-zealous" treatment.
Here one does not will to cause death; one's inability to impede it is merely accepted.
2279 …The use of painkillers to alleviate the sufferings of the dying, even at the risk of shortening their days, can be morally in conformity with human dignity if death is not willed as either an end or a means, but only foreseen and tolerated as inevitable. Palliative care is a special form of disinterested charity. As such it should be encouraged.
What do you think about this?
2007-09-30
07:06:50
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