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+ Food and Water + We are obliged to provide a dying person with food and water as an ordinary means of sustaining life. This is not extraordinary means of life support and are therefore not optional. Anyone who would remove the basic intravenous feeding or a stomach feeding tube is not allowing the natural death process to take place but hastening the death of another, and this is a sin. + Excessive means + While the Catholic Church is the champion of the right to life in all circumstances, she never asks us to try to preserve life where God is clearly calling an person from this world to the next. In other words, the Church does not place obligations on us to interfere in the dying process and in fact rejects attempts to do so as excessive and unjust. The ultimate meaning of a person's life is not found in this world but rather in the world to come, and the Church does not place obstacles to his or her entry into the fullness of Life. + Euthanasia and Assisted Suicide + Please note there is a chasm of difference between
+ Turning off a machine that is keeping a dying person alive and letting a person die a natural death
+ Physician assisted suicide where when a doctor prescribes a lethal amount of medication with the intent of helping a person commit suicide. The patient then takes the dose himself or herself
+ Euthanasia where a doctor injects a lethal amount of medication with or without the patients permission or knowledge The Catholic Church does not approve of euthanasia or assisted suidice.
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When was Dying to Say This to You created?
Dying to Say This to You was created on 2006-03-15.
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