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.
http://www.catholicfreepress.org/featured-article-1/2012/11/02/dignity-at-the-end-of-life/
BULLETIN INSERTS:
Love Never Abandons the Suffering
Life Matters: Doctor-Assisted Death by Suicide - by William Toffler, MDPRAYER RESOURCES:
Intercessions
PrayersHELPFUL READING:
To Live Each Day With Dignity – 2011 Position Statement from the U.S. Conference of Catholic BishopsAdditional 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 ProxyMaking Sense Out of Bioethics – Fr. Tad Pacholczyk, The National Catholic Bioethics Center
Massachusetts Catholic Conference - resources on Physician-Assisted Suicide
Killing the Pain, Not the Patient: Palliative Care vs. Assisted Suicide
