First they called it Physician assisted suicide and now it is "Aided-suicide." Wow that just sounds so much better and it really changes the morality of helping people to kill themselves.
"We are trying to bring the everyday practice of aid in dying out of the shadows, into the light of public scrutiny," said Levine, who pursued the concept of assisted suicide after the death of his terminally ill grandmother.
Supporters, who included a wildly varied parade of hospice workers, doctors, attorneys, religious and community-group representatives, hope to win some GOP backing and push the measure through to Republican Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger, who would face a dilemma as a Catholic and social moderate.
Arnold Schwarzenegger has yet to face a moral dilemma or wrestle with one and lose. When asked previously about his positions contrary to the Catholic faith he replied "That’s easy, I never had one sleepless night over it" Maybe Arnold can deliver the death prescriptions personally and tell them "your ‘e terminated."
"It’s never right to commit, encourage, endorse or assist suicide for persons of any age or stage of life," said Ned Dolejsi, executive director of the California Catholic Conference, which includes the Archdiocese of Los Angeles.
Instead, he said, legislators should "work together to deal with the real issues of health care, death and dying in our society."
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There is a book titled, Wrath of God – the days of the Antichrist, by Livio Fanzaga which I read a few years ago. Per the publisher’s note, “this book consists of the transcripts of two broadcasts made on Radio Maria, by Fr. Livio Fanzaga in l993 and l994. … The book is a commentary on two texts with a common subject, written almost a century ago. …”
Fr. Livio explores the book by Hugh Benson, The Lord of the World, and Vladimir Soloviev’s book, The Antichrist. I found the Wrath of God pretty insighful and saw our present society w/chilling accuracy …
On page 139, the Fr. Livio writes –
“In a society dominated by the ‘great religious deception’ a sacrament of euthanasia will be instituted to solve the problem of boredom and death. Those who so desire will be able to ask for ‘sweet death’ and expire without pain. ….The Church requires faith and right intention to receive the sacraments. Weariness of life will be sufficient grounds to receive the sacrament of Euthanasia. Such is euthanasia in the perfect society of the Antichrist: painless suicide, perfectly organized and protected by law ….”
Need I say more ….