3. Describe your reactions to the video on Nancy Cruzan. Where are you leaning right now on what Catholics should think about the morality of removing her feeding tube? Would this be directly killing or allowing to die?What questions do you have that might affect how you ultimately come down on this issue? vt
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Two ways to exit the world (impersonal or personal forces) In passive, the disease kills the patient. intention is to let whatever is there play itself out however it chooses to b/c the TREATMENT is causing the suffering the patient doesn’t have to die for this intention to be realized (eg., Karen Quinlan) In active, a person kills the patient. intention is to kill the patient b/c the LIFE (or continued living) is causing the suffering the patient DOES have to die for this intention to be realized which side feeding tubes fall on is the issue you'll be addressing in your papers The Vatican Declaration says: “Life is a gift of God, and on the other hand death is unavoidable.” Because life is a gift of God, no active euthanasia—no direct kiling--is allowed P.A.S. is active euthanasia on yourself When active is done by someone else, it’s always illegal and forbidden by law in the United States But because death is unavoidable, passive euthanasia—allowing to die— is allowed The Church's point in the euthanasia question is that life is finite and goes back to God. So, taking someone who is dying off of treatment that is prolonging the dying process is a way to allow the person to go back to God. We spoke at the start of the semester about ethics as being involved with purposes. The purpose for all our lives on a Christian worldview is to return to God, who created us. So, it's BECAUSE life has inherent dignity that we don't prolong the dying process. If treatment is benefiting someone, then that’s different – it’s morally obligatory And that's actually the same reason for the Church's pro-life stance on the abortion issue. I understand that these issues look different in many ways, but it's important to notice the underlying unity in terms of where the Church starts. is there a moral difference between these two types of euthanasia? Maybe a quick thumb poll Would seem that I’m morally related to your death in very different ways if I killed you vs. let you die Hurricane/tree example—what killed the tree?
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