"Mercy killing": bringing about the death of a person through direct or indirect means, including the withholding of sustenance from those unable to provide it for themselves.
Tagged: Ethics & Moral Life
"Mercy killing": bringing about the death of a person through direct or indirect means, including the withholding of sustenance from those unable to provide it for themselves.
Catholic moral teaching condemns euthanasia as contrary to the fifth commandment and to the law of love of neighbor; the wider argument is gathered in this site's flashpoint on the limits of medicine.
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From the legacy CCWV definitions list, carried into the database as an entry of its own. Spelling of headwords is corrected, and where a legacy definition stated one tradition's judgment as the definition itself, the judgment is now attributed to that tradition.