What's extraordinary?

[didymus]

There’s another%between% about a British girl who refused heart transplant:
forums.catholic-questions.org/showthread.php?t=285399

From what I understand the “quality of life” for people with transplanted hearts

I’m sure a heart transplant would be considered extraordinary means according to the Church’s teaching. But could it become ordinary as rejection treatments become perfected or organs become more available, say?

Does the definition of “ordinary” depend on medical practice? Long-term, liver transplants are more or less necessary for stage 5 liver patients given the imperfections of dialysis, but does that make it ordinary?

 

[bilop]

There’s another%between% about a British girl who refused heart transplant:
forums.catholic-questions.org/showthread.php?t=285399

From what I understand the “quality of life” for people with transplanted hearts

I’m sure a heart transplant would be considered extraordinary means according to the Church’s teaching. But could it become ordinary as rejection treatments become perfected or organs become more available, say?

Does the definition of “ordinary” depend on medical practice? Long-term, liver transplants are more or less necessary for stage 5 liver patients given the imperfections of dialysis, but does that make it ordinary?

I believe the Church states that it is moral to refuse any care beyond food and water.

Realistically, you only going to refuse medical care when you are terminal or in great suffering. No one is refusing a cast for their broken arm. No one is refusing care that would cure them.

God Bless