Dr. Philip Nitschke is an Australian medical doctor. He is the founder and director of the pro-euthanasia group Exit International and was the first doctor in the world to administer a legal, voluntary, lethal injection. He believed that the Irish interest in his organisation was enough for him to make the effort and travel some 15,000km last March, however only 20 people came to the gathering. Here are two articles about Dr. Nitsche and his visit that I found interesting:
http://www.prolifecampaign.ie/pages.php?id=105
http://www.prolifecampaign.ie/pages.php?id=106
Sunday, April 18, 2010
Sunday, April 11, 2010
Dying With Dignity
A phrase that is constantly used by the euthanasia movement is “dying with dignity”. The pro-life and euthanasia movements interpret the term dignity in two very different ways. The former treat dignity as something a person possesses according to the quality of their life. Thus many people in the Third World do not “have” dignity. However, the root of the term is the Latin dignitas meaning value or worth. Therefore according to the authentic (which happens also to be the pro-life) meaning of dignity those living in the favelas of Brazil possess dignity because they have value/worth regardless of their quality of life. In this sense “dying with dignity” necessarily excludes euthanasia. Why? None of us can claim responsibility for the value of our life. Because our value (dignity) is founded upon our life, we contradict our dignity by killing ourselves or by assenting to euthanasia. In other words by taking our life we take the foundation for our dignity. Hence only by refusing euthanasia can we really claim to die with dignity
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