Fr. Tadeusz Pacholczyk

Hastening Death by VSED Is Suicide

MORE THAN 20 years ago, Dr. David Eddy, writing in the Journal of the American Medical Association, described how his mother, though not suffering from a terminal illness, chose to end her life through voluntarily stopping eating and drinking (VSED).

Assisted Suicide Laws

Dear Editor: As Catholics we are reminded that we should respect and protect life from conception to natural death. Currently three states, Washington, Oregon, and Vermont have so-called ”Death With Dignity” (doctor-assisted suicide) laws. Vermont passed its statute in 2013. The New Jersey Assembly passed a resolution on Nov. 12, 2014 to pass a similar […]