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The Declaration on Euthanasia is the Roman Catholic Church's official document on the topic of euthanasia, a statement that was issued as by the Sacred Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith in 1980. [1] Catholic teaching purports that euthanasia is a "crime against life". [1]
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.
Evo Morales and the Roman Catholic Church; Radio Maryja § Involvement in politics; Laudato si' § Impact on the United States political system; Catholic social teaching; Conscience clause in medicine in the United States § Catholic doctrine; Canon 915 § Politicians consistently promoting permissive abortion or euthanasia laws
The official teachings of the Catechism of the Catholic Church promulgated by Pope John Paul II in 1992 oppose all forms of abortion procedures whose direct purpose is to destroy a zygote, blastocyst, embryo or fetus, since it holds that "human life must be respected and protected absolutely from the moment of conception.
The Roman Catholic Church condemns euthanasia and assisted suicide as morally wrong. As paragraph 2324 of the Catechism of the Catholic Church states, "Intentional euthanasia, whatever its forms or motives, is murder. It is gravely contrary to the dignity of the human person and to the respect due to the living God, his Creator".
One of the most senior Catholic leaders in the UK has suggested it would be “abhorrent” to exclude religious views from the assisted dying debate after Dame Esther Rantzen said she was deeply ...
Muslims view life as a gift from Allah to humans. In Islamic law, preserving life is one of the five essential objectives. [37] [38] [39] Islamic teachings emphasize that life in this world is temporary and is a period of testing, an abode of trials and tribulations and that true life is the hereafter, where humans are rewarded or punished by ...
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 ...