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  2. Christian views on suicide - Wikipedia

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    The Catholic Church defines suicide very narrowly to avoid the extrapolation that Jesus's death was a type of suicide, brought about by his own choices, and to avoid the idea that Catholic martyrs choosing death is a valid form of suicide. Instead, Catholics give praise that Jesus resisted suicide throughout his trials, demonstrating that no ...

  3. Declaration on Euthanasia - Wikipedia

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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 ...

  4. Religious views on euthanasia - Wikipedia

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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.

  5. Consistent life ethic - Wikipedia

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    The term was popularized in 1983 by the Catholic prelate Joseph Bernardin in the United States to express an ideology based on the premise that all human life is sacred and should be protected by law. [3] While there are many adherents, CLE is not exclusively but primarily a Catholic doctrine and/or associated with the Catholic Church. [4]

  6. Religious views on suicide - Wikipedia

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    There is no express biblical warrant condemning and prohibiting suicide, and there are people mentioned within the Bible who die by suicide. [19] [20] Depending on a denomination's canon of books, there are seven or eleven suicides mentioned in the Bible. [21] On the other hand, the descriptions of people in the Bible who died by suicide are ...

  7. A Catholic burial after suicide? Sheriff Berdnik's funeral ...

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    Suicide, which increased 3% in 2022 over the previous year, is one of the leading causes of death today in the United States. Nearly 50,000 Americans took their own lives in 2022, reported the ...

  8. Culture of life - Wikipedia

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    A culture of life describes a way of life based on the belief that human life begins at conception, and is sacred at all stages from conception through natural death. [1] It opposes abortion, euthanasia, capital punishment (also known as the death penalty), [note 1] studies and medicines involving embryonic stem cells, and contraception, because they are seen as destroying life.

  9. Salvation in Christianity - Wikipedia

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    The Catholic Church does not believe in Christian universalism (i.e., all or most people go to heaven), in double predestination (i.e., some, most, or all people are destined to sin and hell), in Feeneyism (i.e., non-Catholics and excommunicated Catholics cannot be saved), or in how many people will go to heaven or hell (either most or few or ...