Rome, August 18, 2021 – The bishops raise their voices against the referendum on euthanasia, which already has collected 500 thousand signatures. The Presidency the expresses “grave concern” over the collection of signatures for the referendum which aims to decriminalize the murder of the consenting party, effectively opening up to euthanasia in our country.
“Anyone who is in extreme suffering goes helped manage pain, to overcome anguish and despair, not to eliminate one’s life – a note reads – Choosing death is there defeat of the human, the victory of one individualistic and nihilistic anthropological conception in which neither hope nor interpersonal relationships find more space “.
“There is no expression of compassion in helping to die – notes the Presidency of the CEI -, but the Magisterium of the Church recalls that, when the end of earthly existence approaches, the dignity of the human person is specified as the right to to die in the greatest possible serenity and with the human and Christian dignity that is due to her ‘(Samaritanus bonus, V, 2) “.
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