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To Live Each Day with Dignity
U.S. Bishops’ Policy Statement on Assisted Suicide
To live in a manner worthy of our human dignity, and to spend our final days on this earth in peace and comfort, surrounded by loved ones—that is the hope of each of us. In particular, Christian hope sees these final days as a time to prepare for our eternal destiny.
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- BISHOPS’ STATEMENT:
“To Live Each Day with Dignity” - Church Teaching
- Assisted Suicide Fact Sheets
- Prayers During Serious Illness
- Select Educational Articles
- Archive on Assisted Suicide
Church Teaching
- Evangelium Vitae (On the Value and Inviolability of Human Life) encyclical by Pope John Paul II, 2005 (en Español)
- Declaration on Euthanasia by the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith, 1980 (en Español)
- Statement on Euthanasia by the Administrative Committee of the United States Conference of Catholic Bishops, 1991
Fact Sheets
- Assisted Suicide and Euthanasia: Beyond Terminal Illness, July 17, 2011
- Assisted Suicide and Euthanasia: From Voluntary to Involuntary, June 13, 2011
- Oregon’s Assisted Suicide Law: What Safeguards?, June 10, 2011
- Physician-Assisted Suicide: Threat to Improved Palliative Care, June 9, 2011
- Suicide and Assisted Suicide: The Role of Depression, May 18, 2011
- The U.S. Supreme Court's 1997 Decisions on Assisted Suicide, May 13, 2011
- Assisted Suicide: What is at Stake?, May 13, 2011
Prayers
Select Educational Articles
- Life Issues Forum: Hemlock’s Twisted Logic, by Richard Doerflinger, June 24, 2011 (en Español)
- Pope John Paul II: Dying with Dignity,
by Rev. J. Daniel Mindling, O.F.M. Cap., 2005 (en Español) - Assisted Suicide: Death by “Choice”?, by Rita L. Marker, Esq., 2009 (en Español)
- Physician-Assisted Suicide: The Wrong Approach to End of Life Care, by F. Michael Gloth, III, M.D., 2003 (en Español)
- Hope for the Journey: Meaningful Support for the Terminally Ill, by Kathy Kalina, RN, CRNH, 2001 (en Español)
- Killing the Pain, Not the Patient: Palliative Care vs. Assisted Suicide, by Richard Doerflinger and Carlos F. Gomez, M.D., PH.D., 1998
- The Quality of Life: Who’s to Judge? by Richard Doerflinger, 1996