Assisted suicide Archives

Firing of doctor at Catholic hospital sets off fight over assisted suicide law

Associated Press, Church in the US
Sep 5, 2019

The firing of a Colorado doctor who wanted to prescribe life-ending drugs to a man suffering from incurable cancer has touched off a legal battle testing the state’s medically assisted suicide law.

Euthanasia is not an expression of personal freedom, pope says

Catholic News Service, Vatican
Sep 3, 2019

Medical advancements do not help if they treat people as objects or when they are applied only to those people who are not considered a burden and “deserve” to be helped, Pope Francis said.

Final push begins for ‘people’s veto’ referendums on assisted suicide, vaccines in Maine

Associated Press, Church in the US
Sep 2, 2019

Organizers of ballot measures aimed at undoing the Death With Dignity Act, restoring religious exemptions for vaccines, and stopping taxpayer funding for abortions through Medicaid are making a final push for petitions to stop the laws from going into effect.

Dutch doctor on trial in euthanasia case: ‘It can only be called murder’

Church in Europe
Aug 31, 2019

For the first time in Dutch history, a doctor is on trial after performing euthanasia on a woman suffering from severe dementia, who may have had second thoughts about wanting to die.

Seattle archdiocese affirms priest did not condone parishioner’s suicide

Catholic News Service, Church in the US
Aug 30, 2019

The Archdiocese of Seattle has issued a second statement confirming that a priest did not bless the medically assisted suicide of a parishioner.

Seattle bishops affirm sanctity of life after man’s assisted suicide

Catholic News Service, Church in the US
Aug 28, 2019

The bishops of the Archdiocese of Seattle reiterated the Catholic Church’s opposition to assisted suicide in response to a news report about a man who used a fatal drug combination to end his own life under Washington state’s Death with Dignity Act.