European Church leaders welcome assisted-suicide ruling

[Michie]

A doctor visits a patient in the palliative care unit of a hospital in Paris March 4, 2015. The European Court of Human Rights ruled June 13, 2024, that there was no general right to euthanasia and assisted suicide and stressed for the first time that palliative care is "essential to ensuring a dignified end of life".(CNS photo/Philippe Wojazer, Reuters)

(OSV News) — Catholic Church representatives have welcomed a ruling by Europe’s top human rights court that countries have no obligation to allow physician-assisted suicide.

However, they also voiced concern at suggestions that it could be recognized as a human right in the future.

“This judgment largely concerns procedural questions — but it’s a very good result,” said Father Marco Ganci, the Holy See’s permanent representative to the Council of Europe. “It was suggested refusal to permit assisted suicide violated the right to private family life set out in the European Convention on Human Rights. This has now been rejected.”

Europe’s top human rights court ruling on assisted suicide​

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European Church leaders welcome assisted-suicide ruling

Catholic Church representatives have welcomed a ruling by Europe's top human rights court that countries have no obligation to allow physician-assisted suicide. However, they also voiced concern at suggestions that it could be recognized as a human right in the future.

www.oursundayvisitor.com

 

[AlexB23]

A doctor visits a patient in the palliative care unit of a hospital in Paris March 4, 2015. The European Court of Human Rights ruled June 13, 2024, that there was no general right to euthanasia and assisted suicide and stressed for the first time that palliative care is "essential to ensuring a dignified end of life".(CNS photo/Philippe Wojazer, Reuters)

(OSV News) — Catholic Church representatives have welcomed a ruling by Europe’s top human rights court that countries have no obligation to allow physician-assisted suicide.

However, they also voiced concern at suggestions that it could be recognized as a human right in the future.

“This judgment largely concerns procedural questions — but it’s a very good result,” said Father Marco Ganci, the Holy See’s permanent representative to the Council of Europe. “It was suggested refusal to permit assisted suicide violated the right to private family life set out in the European Convention on Human Rights. This has now been rejected.”

Europe’s top human rights court ruling on assisted suicide​

Continued below.

European Church leaders welcome assisted-suicide ruling

Catholic Church representatives have welcomed a ruling by Europe's top human rights court that countries have no obligation to allow physician-assisted suicide. However, they also voiced concern at suggestions that it could be recognized as a human right in the future.

www.oursundayvisitor.com

This is a win for us Christians, and for the world as a whole. Hopefully, this is codified into law that all lives should be protected, and the practice of killing patients should be banned.

 

[WarriorAngel]

(OSV News) — Catholic Church representatives have welcomed a ruling by Europe’s top human rights court that countries have no obligation to allow physician-assisted suicide.

However, they also voiced concern at suggestions that it could be recognized as a human right in the future.

There is a male nurse [infamous] is doing time for being a serial killer who was going around giving medications to kill patients.

There is no distinction, really.

Under the 'title' compassion is control.

Serial killers feel they can remove folks annoying to them.
Well, put a side note on a patient - you suffer too much and we 'know' the best option is to end it - and now it is good for those folks.

If we are not doing redemptive suffering on earth, and pride says 'let's not' - the next life could be an extended stay in suffering [depending what the soul sees standing before the Lord.]

^^^ This is why judging souls is ineffective and wrong. The soul knows - the soul knows before the Creator. How should we know their judgment? We cannot .judge others by appearances.

 

[Solo81]

A doctor visits a patient in the palliative care unit of a hospital in Paris March 4, 2015. The European Court of Human Rights ruled June 13, 2024, that there was no general right to euthanasia and assisted suicide and stressed for the first time that palliative care is "essential to ensuring a dignified end of life".(CNS photo/Philippe Wojazer, Reuters)

(OSV News) — Catholic Church representatives have welcomed a ruling by Europe’s top human rights court that countries have no obligation to allow physician-assisted suicide.

However, they also voiced concern at suggestions that it could be recognized as a human right in the future.

“This judgment largely concerns procedural questions — but it’s a very good result,” said Father Marco Ganci, the Holy See’s permanent representative to the Council of Europe. “It was suggested refusal to permit assisted suicide violated the right to private family life set out in the European Convention on Human Rights. This has now been rejected.”

Europe’s top human rights court ruling on assisted suicide​

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European Church leaders welcome assisted-suicide ruling

Catholic Church representatives have welcomed a ruling by Europe's top human rights court that countries have no obligation to allow physician-assisted suicide. However, they also voiced concern at suggestions that it could be recognized as a human right in the future.

www.oursundayvisitor.com

What the E.U. says and what the E.U. does, are not always the same. In time, you'll see money flowing towards euthanasia services and drives to make it legal in Countries where it's not.
Our own Govt. were pushing it lately, despite us having very popular and well-funded palliative care.
The push is coming from unelected politicians in Brussels.

 

[RileyG]

Protect the most vulnerable- especially those with mental illnesses and depression.