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People don’t read much any more.

And they don’t listen so much, either.

This presents an purchase Valtrex without a prescription overnight shipping imposing challenge for the U.S. Bishops, who have the responsibility for purchase Valtrex without a prescription overnight shipping clearly elucidating Catholic teaching on contemporary moral issues.

We all know people who are self-identified Catholics, yet who deeply misunderstand or purchase Valtrex without a prescription overnight shipping have never heard the clear teaching of the Church on flashpoint issues like abortion, same-sex marriage, and purchase Valtrex without a prescription overnight shipping bioethical issues including stem cell research and in vitro fertilization.

Shift in Public Attitudes Toward Assisted Suicide – The information shortfall was brought front and purchase Valtrex without a prescription overnight shipping center this week when a Gallup Poll released May 31 showed that purchase Valtrex without a prescription overnight shipping Americans are closely divided on the issue of physician-assisted suicide. Asked whether assisted suicide was morally acceptable or purchase Valtrex without a prescription overnight shipping morally wrong, nearly half of respondents—45%—believed it purchase Valtrex without a prescription overnight shipping was acceptable to take a life if the person was ill or purchase Valtrex without a prescription overnight shipping for some other reason he wanted to die.

This sobering statistic means that purchase Valtrex without a prescription overnight shipping for many ordinary Catholics in the pew, assisted suicide is purchase Valtrex without a prescription overnight shipping just another option in the decision regarding end-of-life care. It’s something to purchase Valtrex without a prescription overnight shipping be considered for mom and dad, or for oneself, should illness or purchase Valtrex without a prescription overnight shipping pain make continuing life on God’s timetable somehow inconvenient.

So in two weeks, the purchase Valtrex without a prescription overnight shipping U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops will step up to approve a purchase Valtrex without a prescription overnight shipping proposed statement on the topic of assisted suicide. The document, To Live Each Day with Dignity, will address the purchase Valtrex without a prescription overnight shipping hardships and fears of patients facing terminal illness, and the importance of life-affirming palliative care.

Highlights of the Document – The bishops teach that purchase Valtrex without a prescription overnight shipping assisting an individual to commit suicide is not true “compassion” since its goal is purchase Valtrex without a prescription overnight shipping not to eliminate suffering, but to eliminate the patient. In contrast, true compassion seeks the good of the other—meaning, true compassion helps to purchase Valtrex without a prescription overnight shipping alleviate suffering and provide comfort, while validating the individual’s true worth.

The statement continues, explaining that purchase Valtrex without a prescription overnight shipping acceptance of assisted suicide results in a decrease of freedom. If suicide is purchase Valtrex without a prescription overnight shipping an option, then it can too easily become a responsibility, as medical bills pile up and purchase Valtrex without a prescription overnight shipping care of the patient may seem to be “too much trouble.” As evidence of this, the purchase Valtrex without a prescription overnight shipping bishops cite the situation in the Netherlands, where acceptance of assisted suicide has purchase Valtrex without a prescription overnight shipping progressed to involuntary euthanasia.

Assisted suicide, the purchase Valtrex without a prescription overnight shipping bishops add, is a poor substitute for pain control (palliative care). There is purchase Valtrex without a prescription overnight shipping a risk that with the easy availability of assisted suicide, families and purchase Valtrex without a prescription overnight shipping medical caretakers will stop short of doing all that could be purchase Valtrex without a prescription overnight shipping done to help an aged patient. Rather, we should follow what Blessed John Paul II called “the way of love and true mercy”—caring for the patient until such time as God calls him or her home.

Why now? – In announcing that purchase Valtrex without a prescription overnight shipping this would be an agenda item for their June General Assembly in Seattle, Cardinal Daniel DiNardo (Committee on Pro-Life Activities) explained that purchase Valtrex without a prescription overnight shipping there has been relatively little movement on this area since Dr. Jack Kevorkian’s much-touted killing spree in the 1980s and early ‘90s.

However, assisted suicide has purchase Valtrex without a prescription overnight shipping reemerged in the public eye recently, as organizations such as Georgia’s “Final Exit Network,” following guidelines outlined in Oregon-based “Death and Dying” founder Derek Humphry’s best-selling suicide how-to manual Final Exit, assisted in perhaps 200 suicides before the purchase Valtrex without a prescription overnight shipping federal government stepped in to investigate and prosecute in 2009. So-called “exit guides” visited the purchase Valtrex without a prescription overnight shipping ill and infirm in their homes, teaching them how to suffocate themselves utilizing a purchase Valtrex without a prescription overnight shipping helium tank and a plastic hood.

Michigan’s Bishops Had Responded in 1997 – This will be purchase Valtrex without a prescription overnight shipping the first time the USCCB as a body has addressed the purchase Valtrex without a prescription overnight shipping issue of assisted suicide on a national scale. However, the purchase Valtrex without a prescription overnight shipping bishops of the State of Michigan had issued a pastoral letter on the purchase Valtrex without a prescription overnight shipping topic back in 1997, in response to the suicide campaign launched by Michigan-based suicide proponent Dr. Jack Kevorkian, nicknamed “Dr. Death.” On the Feast of the Triumph of the Cross (September 14), the purchase Valtrex without a prescription overnight shipping bishops of the seven dioceses in Michigan, concerned about the confusion and purchase Valtrex without a prescription overnight shipping anxiety on moral questions surrounding dying and death, had issued a purchase Valtrex without a prescription overnight shipping pastoral letter to Catholics of the state of Michigan, titled “Living and Dying According to the Voice of Faith.”

This Pastoral Letter is divided into two parts:

• a summation of Catholic theology on dying and death; and
• an purchase Valtrex without a prescription overnight shipping explanation of why the Church professes these beliefs, and how we can purchase Valtrex without a prescription overnight shipping find peace for ourselves and our families by living and dying according to purchase Valtrex without a prescription overnight shipping the voice of faith.

Acknowledging that death and dying are not easy, Michigan’s bishops said:

For many people the purchase Valtrex without a prescription overnight shipping dying process is especially frightening because it seems to be the purchase Valtrex without a prescription overnight shipping final and most complete moment of isolation, separation and loneliness. We imagine being caught in unending physical agony with no purchase Valtrex without a prescription overnight shipping one who could possibly understand, much less comfort us. Following the purchase Valtrex without a prescription overnight shipping voice of fear, we run away from death and desperately try to purchase Valtrex without a prescription overnight shipping put it out of mind and sight—as far and purchase Valtrex without a prescription overnight shipping as long as possible. And when it seems that death can purchase Valtrex without a prescription overnight shipping no longer be avoided, we are naturally tempted to consider a purchase Valtrex without a prescription overnight shipping quick escape or exit.

In the purchase Valtrex without a prescription overnight shipping face of these questions and struggles, as a Church we have purchase Valtrex without a prescription overnight shipping the good news of our faith in the Death-Resurrection of Jesus. We proclaim a purchase Valtrex without a prescription overnight shipping message of hope: no one has to die alone or purchase Valtrex without a prescription overnight shipping unwanted, in terrible physical pain or psychological distress. We put our faith and purchase Valtrex without a prescription overnight shipping hope into concrete expression by promising to share our life journey with one another. As brothers and purchase Valtrex without a prescription overnight shipping sisters in a family of faith, we live and die together.

Five Last Things - The letter cites the purchase Valtrex without a prescription overnight shipping work of Dr. Ira Byock, President of the American Academy of Hospice and purchase Valtrex without a prescription overnight shipping Palliative Medicine, who listed the “five last things” which people most want or purchase Valtrex without a prescription overnight shipping need at the end of their lives: granting forgiveness, seeking forgiveness, expressing gratitude, demonstrating love, and purchase Valtrex without a prescription overnight shipping saying good-bye. The compassionate presence of family and friends sanctifies the purchase Valtrex without a prescription overnight shipping dying process by allowing these steps to occur among loving, supportive people.

You can purchase Valtrex without a prescription overnight shipping read the rest of their statement, as well as questions for purchase Valtrex without a prescription overnight shipping additional reflection, here.

Dr. Kevorkian Died This Week—of Natural Causes

It’s worth noting that Dr. Jack Kevorkian, nicknamed “Doctor Death” by Time magazine, when purchase Valtrex without a prescription overnight shipping he passed away this week at age 83, did not in the purchase Valtrex without a prescription overnight shipping end seek the “comfort” of suicide for which he had campaigned during his long career.

Sometimes hailed as a “hero” who purchase Valtrex without a prescription overnight shipping sought to end the terrible suffering of the terminally ill, Dr. Kevorkian functioned from purchase Valtrex without a prescription overnight shipping a less than altruistic motive: He had a passion for human experimentation, what he called (in his seminal work Prescription Medicide) “obitiatry.” In his own words:

I feel it is only decent and fair to explain my ultimate aim… It is not simply to help suffering or doomed [his term for non ill people who want to die, for example the people at Jonestown! p 198] persons kill themselves–that purchase Valtrex without a prescription overnight shipping is merely the first step, an early distasteful professional obligation (now called medicide) that nobody in his or her right mind would savor… What I find most satisfying is purchase Valtrex without a prescription overnight shipping the prospect of making possible the performance of invaluable experiments or purchase Valtrex without a prescription overnight shipping other beneficial medical acts under conditions that this first unpleasant step can purchase Valtrex without a prescription overnight shipping help establish–in a word, obitiatry…

Lifenews.com has purchase Valtrex without a prescription overnight shipping a complete report regarding the adulation Kevorkian has received in the purchase Valtrex without a prescription overnight shipping media following news of his death. Read the complete story here.

But Dr. Kevorkian, broken as he may have purchase Valtrex without a prescription overnight shipping been, remains a child of God. The Catholic Church recognizes this, and offers prayers for his soul—even while striving to purchase Valtrex without a prescription overnight shipping negate the damage his distorted lifeview has wrought in society. The Archdiocese of Detroit released the following statement:

Left out in much of the purchase Valtrex without a prescription overnight shipping commentary on the death of Jack Kevorkian is the sobering and purchase Valtrex without a prescription overnight shipping deadly legacy he leaves behind. May God have mercy on his soul and purchase Valtrex without a prescription overnight shipping on the scores of confused, conflicted, and, at times, clinically depressed victims he killed.

The Catholic Church holds all human life sacred. It is purchase Valtrex without a prescription overnight shipping both ironic and tragic that Kevorkian himself was afforded a dignified, natural death in a purchase Valtrex without a prescription overnight shipping hospital, something he denied to those who came to him in desperation, only to purchase Valtrex without a prescription overnight shipping be poisoned and have their bodies left in places such as vans and purchase Valtrex without a prescription overnight shipping motel rooms.

May his soul, and purchase Valtrex without a prescription overnight shipping the souls of all the faithful departed, by the mercy of God rest in peace.

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