Euthanasia : moral and pastoral perspectives

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Notes: "[By] Richard M. Gula, S.S."; Includes bibliographical references.; "[T]he debate about euthanasia and physician-assisted suicide is more a debate about competing and conflicting moral visions and values than anything else. This book tries to identify the main features of the visions and values shaping the debate, especially those upheld by the Catholic moral tradition.. .... The final chapter tries to 'walk the talk', as it were, by sketching a pastoral response to the euthanasia movement. It will identify the virtues, personal and corporate, which witness to the kind of moral and spiritual life we need to live if our arguments against euthanasia are to be credible". -- Intro.; Contents: Introduction -- The Debate -- Autonomy -- The Prohibition Against Killing -- Beneficence -- Pastoral Response -- Conclusion -- Appendix: Declaration on Euthanasia -- Notes.

Subjects: Euthanasia - Moral and ethical aspects; Euthanasia - Religious aspects - Catholic Church; Death - Religious aspects - Catholic Church; Terminal care - Religious aspects - Catholic Church