Category: End-of-life issues

Scottish archbishop: Euthanasia pushes message that some lives ‘aren’t worth living’

by bcadmin | Oct 17, 2022 | Archbishop Leo Cushley, Archdiocese of Saint Andrews and Edinburgh, Church in Scotland, Church in UK and Ireland, Death and dying, End-of-life issues, euthanasia, Great Britain, lead, News, Physician-assisted suicide, Scotland, Scottish Parliament, United Kingdom | 0 |

Efforts to legalize “assisted dying” in Scotland send the message that lives with suffering “can be considered no longer worth living,” according to a leading archbishop.

European court: Belgian doctors violated woman’s right to life

by bcadmin | Oct 5, 2022 | Belgium, Catholic News Service, Church in Europe, Council of Europe, End-of-life issues, euthanasia, human rights, News, Physician-assisted suicide | 0 |

Doctors in Belgium violated a woman’s right to life when they improperly handled her request for euthanasia, the European Court of Human rights ruled.

Bioethics institute urges UK to review parental rights of very ill kids

by bcadmin | Aug 9, 2022 | Anscombe Bioethics Centre, bioethics, Catholic News Service, Church in UK and Ireland, End-of-life issues, Great Britain, News, United Kingdom | 0 |

A Catholic bioethics institute urged the U.K. government to speed up a review of the rights of the parents of sick children after doctors ended the life of a brain-damaged boy against the wishes of his parents.

Family asks UK’s top court to intervene in life support case

by bcadmin | Aug 2, 2022 | Associated Press, Church in UK and Ireland, End-of-life issues, Great Britain, News, United Kingdom | 0 |

Britain’s Supreme Court says it has received an appeal from the family of a brain-damaged 12-year-old boy whose life support treatment had been due to end on Tuesday.

British bioethics center: ‘Very likely dead’ is not dead enough

by bcadmin | Jun 21, 2022 | Anscombe Bioethics Centre, bioethics, Catholic News Service, Church in UK and Ireland, End-of-life issues, Great Britain, News, United Kingdom | 0 |

A Catholic bioethics institute criticized a decision by the High Court to allow doctors to withdraw ventilation from a brain-damaged boy on the grounds that he was very likely — though not definitely — dead.

Family vows to appeal after UK court orders life support removed from 12-year-old

by bcadmin | Jun 14, 2022 | Alfie Evans, bioethics, Charlie Gard, Church in UK and Ireland, End-of-life issues, Great Britain, lead, News, United Kingdom | 0 |

A family has vowed to appeal a court decision to remove life support from a 12-year-old boy, who has been on a ventilator since April.

Church must do better at valuing elderly, Vatican official says

by bcadmin | Feb 28, 2022 | Archbishop Vincenzo Paglia, Elderly, End-of-life issues, euthanasia, General Audience, lead, News, Pope Francis, Vatican | 0 |

The Vatican’s top official on life issues has said the pope’s decision to launch a new weekly catechesis on “old age” is timely and voiced his belief that the Church itself still struggles with seeing the elderly in a positive light.

Classic could prompt paradigm shift in thinking about how we die

by bcadmin | Oct 31, 2021 | Books, Death and dying, End-of-life issues, interview, Interviews, lead, National Catholic Bioethics Center, News | 0 |

The Ars moriendi was written in the early 15th century to guide dying persons and their loved ones in Catholic religious practices when access to a priest and the sacraments was limited.

Canadian bishops: Assisted suicide law perilous for disabled, mentally ill

by bcadmin | Apr 9, 2021 | Assisted suicide, Canada, canadian bishops, Catholic Church, Catholic News Service, Church in the Americas, End-of-life issues, euthanasia, News, Physician-assisted suicide | 0 |

Canada’s Catholic bishops said the possible pressures the country’s new assisted suicide law will place on Canadians with mental illness or disabilities are “all too real, perilous and potentially destructive.”

UK court says hospital can let child die, despite mother’s objections

by bcadmin | Mar 20, 2021 | bioethics, Bishop John Sherrington, Bishops Conference of England and Wales, Catholic Church, Church in UK and Ireland, End-of-life issues, Great Britain, lead, News, Pippa Knight, United Kingdom | 0 |

A decision to allow a 5-year-old child to die against the wishes of her mother “does not acknowledge or afford her the inherent human dignity with which she was born,” according to the English bishops’ conference.

Ireland’s bishops call Dying With Dignity Bill ‘fundamentally flawed’

by bcadmin | Mar 11, 2021 | Assisted suicide, Catholic Church, Church in Ireland, Church in UK and Ireland, End-of-life issues, euthanasia, Ireland, Irish bishops, lead, News, Physician-assisted suicide, Republic of Ireland | 0 |

Ireland’s bishops say that a bill to legalize assisted suicide in the country is “fundamentally flawed,” and are calling on Catholics to ask their elected representatives to “reject it entirely.”

Palliative care in Australia on life support, says new report

by bcadmin | Mar 6, 2021 | Australia, Catholic Church, Catholic News Service, Church in Oceania, Death and dying, End-of-life issues, News, Palliative Care | 0 |

Australia has only half the number of palliative care doctors needed to provide good quality care for chronically and terminally ill patients, despite increasing demand, according to new research.