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Euthanasia & Assisted Suicide

Suicide: Human Right or Human Tragedy?

HOW CAN IT BE BOTH GOOD AND BAD?

Joseph Illo

July-August 2019

On the one hand, we declare suicide a human right. On the other, we set up hotlines and billboards to prevent people from exercising this supposed right.

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All Aboard the Suicide Train
May 2016

In the Netherlands an increasing number of patients now seek assisted dying because of dementia, psychiatric illnesses, and age-related complaints — in other words, non-terminal medical conditions.

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Dying Without Dignity & Other End-of-Life Scares

UNEXAMINED ASSUMPTIONS ABOUT PHYSICIAN-ASSISTED SUICIDE

Elizabeth Hanink

July-August 2015

Disability advocates like those at Not Dead Yet and Second Thoughts find their own lives well worth living and filled with dignity.

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Rushing Death
December 2012

The elderly and the under-pressure organ donor have reason to distrust the falsely compassionate, as advocates of legalized euthanasia threaten to undermine the foundation of medical care as we've known it.

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True Medical Care or the Law of the Jungle?

Anne Barbeau Gardiner

September 2010

In "Incapacity and Care" we find a powerful and unanswerable defense of the dignity of the most helpless and vulnerable among us.

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State-Sanctioned Suicide & Ecclesiastical Funerals

GUEST COLUMN

Edward Peters

June 2009

In light of the trend toward legalizing physician-assisted suicide in the U.S., might some reconsideration of the funeral ban for suicides be in order?

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On Death & Dying & Terri Schiavo

GUEST COLUMN

Timothy P. Collins

July/August 2005

Her cause of death was starvation and dehydration. Her manner of death was euthanasia. If I were to euthanize my cat the way Mrs. Schiavo was euthanized, I could be jailed.

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The Catholic University of Louvain In Belgium (Part II)

IS IT STILL CATHOLIC?

Alice von Hildebrand

October 2003

Have professors at the University of Louvain lost sight of the abysmal difference between a sin and a non-moral evil — such as poverty, sickness, a natural disaster?

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Cheap Grace in Holland
January 2002

John Allen insists that while the Dutch tolerate vice, they don't necessarily approve of it.

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The Return of the Physician-Executioner

David C. Stolinsky

September 2001

We would do well to heed the lesson of Deuteronomy 30:19 (Choose life…"), rather than the teachings of "ethicists" who cannot distinguish human babies from fish.

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The Dangers of 'Cognitive Psychology'

ON SUFFERING & ITS VALUE

Ed Bergeron

November 2000

Psychology does not live up to expectations of theoretical discussion. Catholic doctrine is sound and actually “fills gaps” left by psychology.

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When Death Is Our Physician

THE TRUTH ABOUT THE ASSISTED-SUICIDE MOVEMENT

Wesley J. Smith

December 1999

Assisted-suicide guidelines are ignored routinely or have been expanded to the point where they are ephemeral.

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Running to Do Evil

GUEST COLUMN

David C. Stolinsky

June 1999

This interesting sin, based on Proverbs 6:18, means embracing evil enthusiastically instead of being drawn into it reluctantly.

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The Modern World's Attempt to Beautify Sin & Death

HELL TO PAY

Mitchell Kalpakgian

February 1998

Sin and crime, no matter how legalized, how euphemized, how tolerated, will always in the end reveal their association with loathsomeness and horror.

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What the Pope Called the 'Culture of Death' Is Actually a Syndicate of Death

CRIMES COVERED UP

Joseph Collison

January 1998

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The Liberalism of Fools

THE SARANDON SYNDROME

Mark P. Shea

January-February 1993

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Life & Death

HARVARD DIARY

Robert Coles

December 1991

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The Treatment of Handicapped Infants

A DECADE OF DETERIORATION

Gregory F. Aloia

March 1984

Wide-scale prenatal screening procedures brought about a “free-fire zone” on the defective child throughout all three stages of gestation.

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