Question

In almost all U.S. states, passive nonvoluntary euthanasia (withdrawing life-sustaining treatment from incompetent patient) is legal when the patient’s legal proxy (durable power of attorney for health care, or next of kin, or healthcare representative), wishes to let him/her go, only when the patient is (1) in end-stage and terminally ill or (2) permanently unconscious. However, the Catholic Church is against the latter case. Thus, in Catholic hospitals, the health care proxy’s request for the euthanasia on the permanently unconscious patient is not granted, but instead, the transfer to secular hospitals is offered. Find its theological rationale in The Ethical and Religious Directives of the Catholic Church (2018) and show your view on it.

Answer 1

Euthanasia is both historical and contemporaty problem of medicine,law,ethics, and religion which is reflected inthe mutitude of interwoven concepts and diffrent legislative solutions of that questions it the world wide,christianity is one major world religion it does not sanction suicide and on the contrary recognizes that though religious rites the complex problem become lighter,self inflicted killing is a athestic act aginst the dominant tenets of christianity according to bible,like other faith ,religion and ethical rules alone will not be adequate to deter mercy killing or suicide insted counseling and comprehensinghow to control the situation may be employed as effective measures to counter the causes of this immoral ethical act.