What Do Different Religions Think Of The Culture Of Death?

This isn’t an in-depth examination of how different religions consider assisted suicide and euthanasia, but it’s informative nevertheless.

Ask the Religion Experts: What is your faith's view on euthanasia?

Rev. KEVIN FLYNN is an Anglican priest and director of the Anglican studies program at Saint Paul University.

Much depends on what is meant by the term “euthanasia.” Anglicans actively support the best of palliative care to relieve the suffering of the terminally ill. For example, the late Dame Cicely Saunders was a pioneer in Britain of the palliative care hospice movement, work whose influence has spread world wide. This work combines pain and symptom relief with comprehensive care for the psychological, spiritual, physical, and social needs of patients and their families. more

Mmmm . . . Might Suicide Be Narcissistic?

Gee, who’da thunk? The more you believe in something bigger than yourself, the less likely you are to want to kill yourself.

Swiss losing their religion are more suicidal

Researchers at Bern and Zurich universities have found that suicide rates are lower among people with an affiliation to one of Switzerland’s recognised churches.

Based on the 2000 census, there were 39 suicides for every 100,000 inhabitants with no church affiliation. In comparison, the figures for Protestants and Catholics were 28.5 and 19.7 respectively.

The researchers from the universities’ social and preventive medicine institutes added that the Catholic Church’s condemnation of both suicide and assisted suicide may play a role in the low rate among Catholics. more

Pro-Deathers Begin To Infiltrate Churches

The pro-deathers continue to seep into every single place they can with their message of a happy death. It’s not surprising, therefore, that they have begun to infiltrate organized religion to co-opt churches and their members to their will. They’ve already started doing this in the hospice movement.

Speakers at CHA workshop assess tactics of assisted suicide proponents

DENVER (CNS) -- Proponents of assisted suicide are using the U.S. church's own revised ethical directives as "propaganda to promote" their cause, a physician and Franciscan brother told a workshop at the Catholic Health Association convention June 14.

Compassion & Choices, a national organization created from the merger of the former Hemlock Society and Compassion in Dying in 2005, is telling people that the "Ethical and Religious Directives for Catholic Health Care Services" now require that "everyone will have a feeding tube rammed down their throat" at Catholic health facilities, said Franciscan Brother Daniel P. Sulmasy. more