Vatican official condemns Maynard assisted suicide case in U.S.

[My Name Was Taken]

Oh Vatican. Your comments are insensitive and devoid of the compassion you pretend your god is about. You're so blinded by your fanatical devotion to your dogma that you refuse to make exceptions for people who are suffering.

Remember folks, be a good christian and suffer in silence. And don't forget to pay your tithe.

VATICAN CITY (Reuters) - A Vatican bioethics official on Tuesday condemned the death by assisted suicide of American Brittany Maynard, a terminally ill 29-year-old who ended her life over the weekend, as an undignified "absurdity".

"This woman (took her own life) thinking she would die with dignity, but this is the error," Monsignor Ignacio Carrasco de Paula, head of the Pontifical Academy for Life, told the Italian news agency Ansa.

"Suicide is not a good thing. It is a bad thing because it is saying no to life and to everything it means with respect to our mission in the world and towards those around us," the head of the Vatican think tank on life issues said in a report on the Ansa website.

He described assisted suicide as "an absurdity".

Maynard, who was diagnosed in January with a brain tumor and had announced plans to take medication to die when her pain became unbearable, had become the face of the right-to-die movement ahead of her death this weekend.

The group Compassion & Choices, an Oregon-based nonprofit that assisted the young woman through her end of life, said on Sunday that she had passed away surrounded by friends and family.

The Roman Catholic Church opposes euthanasia and assisted suicide, teaching that life starts at the moment of conception and should end at the moment of natural death.

(Reporting By Philip Pullella; Editing by Angus MacSwan; Editing by Angus MacSwan)

[TheButterZone]

And conversely, the Church supports torture and brutal suffering.

[TheButterZone]

The Church has always condemned a lot of things, until it changed its mind. 

"The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing." -Edmund Burke

If good men/women didn't oppose the Church, it would see no point in changing.

[My Name Was Taken]

Oh Vatican. Your comments are insensitive and devoid of the compassion you pretend your god is about. You're so blinded by your fanatical devotion to your dogma that you refuse to make exceptions for people who are suffering.

Remember folks, be a good christian and suffer in silence. And don't forget to pay your tithe.

VATICAN CITY (Reuters) - A Vatican bioethics official on Tuesday condemned the death by assisted suicide of American Brittany Maynard, a terminally ill 29-year-old who ended her life over the weekend, as an undignified "absurdity".

"This woman (took her own life) thinking she would die with dignity, but this is the error," Monsignor Ignacio Carrasco de Paula, head of the Pontifical Academy for Life, told the Italian news agency Ansa.

"Suicide is not a good thing. It is a bad thing because it is saying no to life and to everything it means with respect to our mission in the world and towards those around us," the head of the Vatican think tank on life issues said in a report on the Ansa website.

He described assisted suicide as "an absurdity".

Maynard, who was diagnosed in January with a brain tumor and had announced plans to take medication to die when her pain became unbearable, had become the face of the right-to-die movement ahead of her death this weekend.

The group Compassion & Choices, an Oregon-based nonprofit that assisted the young woman through her end of life, said on Sunday that she had passed away surrounded by friends and family.

The Roman Catholic Church opposes euthanasia and assisted suicide, teaching that life starts at the moment of conception and should end at the moment of natural death.

(Reporting By Philip Pullella; Editing by Angus MacSwan; Editing by Angus MacSwan)

The Church has always condemed suicide, it is a tough thing and not one person is right or wrong on this. Blowing this out of porportion and mocking a religion is not the way to oppose this.

Just because the church has always condemned something doesn't mean it's correct, it just means it's consistent. The church used to condemn people who argued that the Earth was not the center of the universe. Had they stayed consistent, it wouldn't make them correct.

The offense here is the church's claim over yourself and expecting someone to suffer by claiming they cannot end their own life with dignity. That's an offensive and arrogant claim. I admit I took a mocking tone, but I'm unconvinced it was not warranted.

[DhaniBoy]

supposed to be in the modern era, as now, the view of the church should be changed, not necessarily support something that has been previously set by his predecessors, which it is not necessarily true, as made the earth as the center of the universe

they should think that their followers were thinking, whether their leaders in line with the modern era as it is about the condemnation, if it is true that the Vatican do? while on the other hand they do the opposite, let's hope the followers of the Vatican has begun to think how it should act ... 

[Lethn]

And conversely, the Church supports torture and brutal suffering.

No wonder they argue so passionately for keeping people alive artificially so they can live their lives in pain then.