Physician Assisted Suicide
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The Church vigorously opposes physician-assisted suicide and euthanasia.
To learn more about the Church’s teaching on these and other end-of-life concerns, visit the links below.
Check back regularly as more content will be added!
An effort is currently underway in the state of Massachusetts to legalize physician-assisted suicide through attempts to put the issue on the Nov. 2012 ballot. (Read
the advisory from the Mass. Catholic Conference here.)
Read the legislative testimony from the MCC (3-6-12) here.
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WEBSITES:
Suicide is Always a Tragedy (Archdiocese of Boston)
Massachusetts Catholic Conference - resources on Physician-Assisted Suicide
Doctors Against Suicide
Massachusetts Alliance Against Doctor-Prescribed Suicide
RESOURCES:
To Live Each Day With Dignity – 2011 Position Statement from the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops
Additional USCCB resources on end-of-life concerns
Death is Not the Solution to Suffering – The Catholic Free Press, October 2011
Salvifici Doloris – On the Christian Meaning of Human Suffering – Bl. John Paul II
Declaration on Euthanasia – Sacred Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith
Life-Sustaining Treatments and the ‘Vegetative State’: Scientific Advances and Ethical Dilemmas – Bl. John Paul II
Massachusetts Health Care Proxy
Making Sense Out of Bioethics – Fr. Tad Pacholczyk, The National Catholic Bioethics Center
