The following comes from a Dec. 5 story in the Santa Cruz Sentinel.
State Sen. Bill Monning intends to introduce legislation that would allow terminally ill Californians to end their lives with medical assistance.
Monning, D-Carmel, announced his plan for a bill modeled on Oregon’s Death with Dignity Act on Friday during an annual legislative meeting with Watsonville officials.
“This is a core human dignity, human rights question,” he said. “This will be controversial, but it’s important to have the conversation.”
Monning said he and Sen. Lois Wolk, D-Davis, still are working on the legislation, but that it would authorize mentally competent people with terminal diagnoses and fewer than six months to live to legally end their lives.
His action also is intended to focus attention on advance medical directives, palliative care and hospice, Monning said.
Better known as assisted suicide, advocates prefer the term “aid in dying” to describe the practice of a terminally ill patient choosing to end their life using a lethal dose of a prescribed drug.
Since the Oregon law went into effect in 1997, 1,173 people have requested prescriptions, and 752 ingested the drugs to end their lives. A majority suffered from cancer and were 65 or older….
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This is not compassion, it is the pit of hell grabbing souls at their most vulnerable. Be steadfast and reject the Culture of Death, be a soldier of Christ!
‘Death with Dignity’ is the code for Euthanasia.
It is included in the 2014 California State Party Platform.
CCC: ” 2277 Whatever its motives and means, direct euthanasia consists in putting an end to the lives of handicapped, sick, or dying persons.
It is morally unacceptable.
Thus an act or omission which, of itself or by intention, causes death in order to eliminate suffering constitutes a murder gravely contrary to the dignity of the human person and to the respect due to the living God, his Creator
The error of judgment into which one can fall in good faith does not change the nature of this murderous act, which must always be forbidden and excluded. ”
CCC: ” 2324 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. ”
CCC: ” 2279 Even if death is thought imminent, the ordinary care owed to a sick person cannot be legitimately interrupted.
The use of painkillers to alleviate the sufferings of the dying, even at the risk of shortening their days, can be morally in conformity with human dignity if death is not willed as either an end or a means, but only foreseen and tolerated as inevitable.
Palliative care is a special form of disinterested charity. As such it should be encouraged.
When are the Bishops going to teach that Catholics may NOT vote for those who support the intrinsic evils of ABORTION and/or EUTHANASIA ?
When is the CCCB (California Conference of Catholic Bishops) going to speak about this bill ? And educate their flocks ?
If Euthanasia passes into law, all taxpayers will be expected to pay for it.
People who are intent on committing suicide do not need the help of taxpayers, or others.
They do it all the time – all by themselves.
“Thou Shall NOT Kill” – GOD.
CCC: ” 2325 Suicide is seriously contrary to justice, hope, and charity. It is forbidden by the fifth commandment. “
All Americans need to be trained, to respect Almighty God, and to respect the life He created! Only God can make a life, and only God can take a life! We all must humbly submit to God! No human being is in control of Life and of Death! Even the Son of God had to suffer and die on a Cross, though He was Divine, pure, and sinless! He freely gave His life, for our Salvation! And Christ’s holy, sinless, Immaculate Mother, Mary, was not spared earthly sufferings, either! If we are suffering greatly, we must go to Christ and His Most Blessed Mother, in prayer, because they are always there, waiting to help us! To commit suicide, or to abort a baby, is MURDER!! A MORTAL SIN!! Any Catholic doctor, nurse, medical personnel, etc., who participates in an abortion or suicide, should be EXCOMMUNICATED IMMEDIATELY, by the Catholic Church! By the way— I just saw a tragic recent photo, of bad “Catholic” John Kerry, receiving Holy Communion from Cardinal Wuerl, in Washington, D.C.!!
The Death Movement is an integral part of the Democratic Party. (1)The Party sponsors legislation and programs that promote and provide free contraception, even promoting it, through the government schools from elementary schools to high schools to universities. The government, federal; and state, subsidizes the programs of Planned Parenthood, which should be renamed Planned Non-Parenthood. (2) The government also pays for free abortions through Medical, Medicaid, and Planned Parenthood. (3) The Democratic Party platform also includes legislation that honors and promotes sexually deviant behaviors that produce no life, homosexuality. Many of the Party’s leaders are proud to announce their homosexuality. (4) The newest “benefit” the Democratic Party is promoting is “death with dignity,” for those who have six months or less to live. When Dr. Kevorkian’s dead victims cases were investigated, it was found that many of them did not have a terminal disease. Did some doctor or greedy relative talk them into accepting euthanasia? While voluntary euthanasia is promoted now, how long before it becomes a rationale that the elderly, sick and handicapped should not take up hospital space and use the time of medical personnel, especially under Obamacare, and have a duty to accept euthanasia?
Wonderful idea. The Carnegie eugenics research facility proposed this many times, with other eugenics groups, such as the Rockfeller folks, and there is said to be a letter from Adolf, the new chancellor, putting their ideas into play, in the archives of Carnegie. Dr. Mengele was just helping those folks out too.
The Culture of Death is a slippery slope. Can I have your liver please?, said Monty Python.
This Pope has instructed us not to let go of Euthanasia and Abortion and rape of Christian girls sold into sexual slavery by Muslims and concentrate on his priorities of not judging homosexual persons who have so much to contribute as prelates and lay-vocations as well as cohabitation before marriage to adapt the Church to the morals of the present times. Not a brilliant philosopher in my view.
https://www.catholicnewsagency.com/news/pope-francis-blasts-abortion-euthanasia-as-sins-against-god-70913/
It is a truly wicked society that pushes euthanasia instead of finding and training oncologists, etc. in better ways to help the dying. Once doctors are made into killers, watch out. None of us are safe.