These nuns provide 'death with dignity' – but it's not assisted suicide

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Washington D.C., Apr 1, 2015 / 04:06 am (CNA/EWTN News).- As states around the country consider legalizing physician-assisted suicide, “death with dignity” looks markedly different for patients under the care of the Little Sisters of the Poor.
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In her 27 years with the order that cares for the “elderly poor,” Sister Constance Veit, L.S.P. says she has never seen or heard a patient asking for a lethal prescription.
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“I think that’s because they are surrounded with a caring human and spiritual presence in our homes,” she told an audience at the Heritage Foundation.
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Love this order! I’ve been following their lawsuit regarding Obamacare which is being handled by the Becket Fund. See their video showing what the sisters do here: becketfund.org/littlesisters/

Most current update on that litigation is in their favor in the form of a temporary reprieve:
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“The lower courts are split over these cases, and so far most of them have actually sided with the religious groups rather than the government. And so, understandably, first Justice Sonia Sotomayor on her own and now the full court have hit the pause button at this preliminary stage,…”
 
There is a ministry at our parish that goes to hospitals to be with the dying, if they have no one else to be with them.

It’s a group of about 8 people who are ‘on call’ with a few local hospitals. If someone is near death and there are no family, the hospital gives them a call and they come to be at that person’s bedside, holding their hand and just being with them.

Great work!
 
Unfortunately that phrase has been ripped from nuns like these to mean something entirely different.
 
Brendan said:
There is a ministry at our parish that goes to hospitals to be with the dying, if they have no one else to be with them.

It’s a group of about 8 people who are ‘on call’ with a few local hospitals. If someone is near death and there are no family, the hospital gives them a call and they come to be at that person’s bedside, holding their hand and just being with them.
Great work!
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That is beautiful!
 
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