40.
THE QUESTION WAS:
What did Pope John Paul II
say about withholding water and food from a person?
THE
ANSWER IS
B
It is gravely immoral to withhold nutrition and hydration from a
person in a vegetative state who is not dying.
To deny someone this basic human sustenance
would be to kill someone, he said.
Providing water and food, even
through an artificial tube, is a basic human expectation and is not considered
a medical treatment.
The pope
emphasized the intrinsic value and dignity of a human being, saying this value
does not change with changing health.
http://www.lifesite.net/ldn/2004/mar/04032001.html
(Pope Ends Debate Over Nutrition & Hydration for Patients in Vegetative
State)
http://www.vatican.va/holy_father/john_paul_ii/speeches/2004/march/documents/hf_jp-ii_spe_20040320_congress-fiamc_en.html
(WORDS OF THE POPE)
http://www.cwnews.com/news/viewstory.cfm?recnum=28436
(Pope Condemns Euthanasia of Vegetative Patients)
http://www.catholicherald.com/cns/cns04/patients.htm
(Must get Nutrition and Hydration as long as possible)
http://www.ncbcenter.org/press/04-04-23-NCBCStatementonNutritionandHydration.html
(National Catholic Bioethics Center)
http://www.catholicculture.org/docs/doc_view.cfm?recnum=5921
(Persons in Coma Deserve Special Care)
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