Assisted suicide Archives

Massachusetts judge rejects right to physician-assisted suicide

Jan 15, 2020

Patients who are terminally ill do not have a right to physician-assisted suicide, but their doctors can provide information and advise about medical aid in dying, a Massachusetts court has ruled.

By Catholic News Service

Two archbishops urge support of House resolution on assisted suicide

Dec 21, 2019

Two U.S. archbishops urged support of a House concurrent resolution that calls for “comprehensive medical care” over suicide or assisted suicide for patients nearing the end of their lives.

By Catholic News Service

Vatican official: I’d ‘hold hand’ of person dying from assisted suicide

Dec 10, 2019

A leading Vatican official says he would “hold the hand” of someone who was dying from assisted suicide, even though he considers it wrong, because “no one is abandoned” by the Church.

By Inés San Martín

Jewish, Christian, Muslim leaders sign declaration against euthanasia

Oct 28, 2019

Representatives from the Catholic and Orthodox churches and the Muslim and Jewish faiths signed a joint declaration at the Vatican reaffirming each religion’s clear opposition to euthanasia and physician-assisted suicide.

By Carol Glatz

Report outlines ‘dangers, harms’ assisted suicide laws pose to disabled

Oct 18, 2019

The National Council on Disability said in a new study that “the dangers and harms” physician-assisted suicide laws present to people with disabilities “appear to be as significant today” as they were in 1997 and 2005, when the council earlier analyzed the harms of such laws.

By Julie Asher

Dutch cardinal cautious in response to euthanasia acquittal

Oct 3, 2019

Dutch Cardinal Wim Eijk gave an official reaction to the verdict in a landmark euthanasia case, in which a doctor who performed euthanasia on a woman suffering from severe dementia has been acquitted of murder. Last week prosecutors announced their decision to take the case to the Dutch Supreme Court.

By Katholiek Nieuwsblad