Natural Law vs. resuscitation

[Larry1700]

Someone recently posed a question to me which I couldn’t answer (like THAT doesn’t happen very often!)…

How does the (doctrine?) regarding Natural Law square with resuscitation? Wouldn’t the person be kept alive unnaturally?

 

[1ke]

That is not what the “natural” in Natural Law means.

There’s a great book 50 Questions on Natural Law: What It Is and Why We Need It by Rice. I recommend you pick up a copy.

 

[Joe_Kelley]

Saint Paul found it acceptable - Acts 20:7-12

7 On the first day of the week, when we were gathered together to break bread, Paul talked with them, intending to depart on the morrow; and he prolonged his speech until midnight. 8 There were many lights in the upper chamber where we were gathered. 9 And a young man named Eutychus was sitting in the window. He sank into a deep sleep as Paul talked still longer; and being overcome by sleep, he fell down from the third story and was taken up dead. 10 But Paul went down and bent over him, and embracing him said, “Do not be alarmed, for his life is in him.” 11 And when Paul had gone up and had broken bread and eaten, he conversed with them a long while, until daybreak, and so departed. 12 And they took the lad away alive, and were not a little comforted.

 

[Jermosh]

I think the Church puts a line on if the person can breath and have a heart beat on there own, food and water should be a basic human right regardless of mental incapacity.

DNR can be morally sound and encouraged for many to think about and talk to your preist about. Its not a sin to not want to be brought back from death, human dignity is also a basic right.