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James_Patrick
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I need a legally written document for my will which will direct my care giver concerning removal of life support systems that reflect the Church’s teachings. My lawyer has prepared a will with “Advace Directive for Health Care” which is very secular and rather than try to change portions I feel I need an entire document.
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Included below are generalities I found on the internet: Catholic teaching holds that it is morally wrong to refuse “proportionate” or ordinary care, which includes water and feeding tubes; refusing such care amounts to euthanasia
A document issued Sept. 14 from the Vatican’s Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith reaffirmed that it considers the removal of feeding tubes from people in vegetative states to be an immoral act.
The Vatican distinguishes between feeding tubes, which it considers proportionate care, and “aggressive medical treatment” which can be disproportionate to any expected results or pose an excessive burden on the patient.
“In such situations, when death is clearly imminent and inevitable, one can in conscience refuse forms of treatment that would only secure a precarious and burdensome prolongation of life, so long as the normal care due to the sick person in similar cases is not interrupted,” according to John Paul’s 1995 encyclical “Evangelium Vitae.”
Please Help !
Included below are generalities I found on the internet: Catholic teaching holds that it is morally wrong to refuse “proportionate” or ordinary care, which includes water and feeding tubes; refusing such care amounts to euthanasia
A document issued Sept. 14 from the Vatican’s Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith reaffirmed that it considers the removal of feeding tubes from people in vegetative states to be an immoral act.
The Vatican distinguishes between feeding tubes, which it considers proportionate care, and “aggressive medical treatment” which can be disproportionate to any expected results or pose an excessive burden on the patient.
“In such situations, when death is clearly imminent and inevitable, one can in conscience refuse forms of treatment that would only secure a precarious and burdensome prolongation of life, so long as the normal care due to the sick person in similar cases is not interrupted,” according to John Paul’s 1995 encyclical “Evangelium Vitae.”