RT Article
T1 Sterben in Würde
JF Review of ecumenical studies, Sibiu
VO 6
IS 2
SP 174
OP 196
A1 Marschütz, Gerhard 1956-
LA German
PB [publisher not identified]
YR 2014
UL https://www.ixtheo.de/Record/1580614604
AB To die in dignity is often understood as a personal right to independently determine the time and the way of one's own death, assuming dignity as a quality of life that wouldn't exist in serious illness or in the final stage of life. On the contrary and from a traditional point of view dignity belongs to a person's being that can never get lost and hence has to be respected also at the end of life. For that reason, from a catholic point of view a voluntary euthanasia as a deliberate killing of a person is definitely rejected. However, a so-called ‘aggressive medical treatment' must be avoided because it doesn't accept the actual situation of death and only causes a pointless extension of life. Nevertheless, the palliative care is essential to provide people even in their final lifetime with quality of life and to help them with the personal acceptance of death.
K1 Catholic Church
K1 To die in dignity
K1 Dignity
K1 Euthanasia
K1 Evangelium vitae
K1 Palliative Care
K1 Theological Ethics
DO 10.2478/ress-2014-0115