EJ Dionne Opposes Euthanasia | National Catholic Reporter

EJ Dionne Opposes Euthanasia | National Catholic Reporter by MSW.  MGB: There are some forms of passive euthanasia that must be allowed.  Treating pain is one of them and the other is removing care.  I would add that withholding all care, including feeding, is necessary if one has brought someone back from the dead but they have never regained consciousness.  That aspect has never been explored by the Magisterium.  I also believe that looking at what St. Thomas More said in Utopia is useful, as it is natural law based.  I think it is also hubris to try to glorify the suffering of the dying as a sin offering.  Christ suffered to experience our sufferings.  We can do no more than that and we are committing a sin of pride if we think or teach otherwise.  The pain is not a sin offering so much as an opportunity to call out to God for relief.  We should not be blind to the fact that God sometimes comes in the form of a compassionate physician.