© REUTERS/thebrittanyfund.orgBrittany Maynard (L) is pictured with her husband Dan Diaz in this undated handout photo obtained by Reuters November 3, 2014.
Comment: It is not surprising to see the Vatican bashing the choice by Brittany Maynard to end her suffering since the Church is, and has been for hundreds if not thousands of years, actively involved in keeping people controlled and brainwashed. People are not allowed to stop their suffering, so the Church decides that life should end only at natural death. But what is natural about living in pain, just to live? All that that does is force people to suffer as long as possible. Why would the Church condone that? The Church thinks it's absurd, but to most rational, fair-minded people, it's a humane way for a person to die instead of slowly dying in pain. For more on this story, see:
A Vatican bioethics official on Tuesday condemned the death by assisted suicide of American Brittany Maynard, a terminally ill 29-year-old who ended her life over the weekend, as an undignified "absurdity".
"This woman (took her own life) thinking she would die with dignity, but this is the error," Monsignor Ignacio Carrasco de Paula, head of the Pontifical Academy for Life, told the Italian news agency Ansa.
"Suicide is not a good thing. It is a bad thing because it is saying no to life and to everything it means with respect to our mission in the world and towards those around us," the head of the Vatican think tank on life issues said in a report on the Ansa website.
He described assisted suicide as "an absurdity".
Maynard, who was diagnosed in January with a brain tumor and had announced plans to take medication to die when her pain became unbearable, had become the face of the right-to-die movement ahead of her death this weekend.
The group Compassion & Choices, an Oregon-based nonprofit that assisted the young woman through her end of life, said on Sunday that she had passed away surrounded by friends and family.
The Roman Catholic Church opposes euthanasia and assisted suicide, teaching that life starts at the moment of conception and should end at the moment of natural death.
Source: Reuters
There are many degrees of suffering, when it comes to suffering from a healthcare perspective, it is prolonged, there opiates that are offered but in truth they don' really take away the pain they only reduce the awareness of the pain.
What is so wrong about a person, who through there own cognition and most probably with the consent of there family members decides to die with dignity, they can plan and make it a memorable experience for those involved that is filled without pain and suffering but instead filled with love and understanding
They can be an active participant in the act of dying, let's face we all have to die at some point,
to choose how we die is something special and should be respected.
We wouldn't let our pets suffer in such a way, we want to relieve them from there suffering, why should it be so different people we love and care about.