Rome (NEV), December 21, 2017 – “No one outside God can or must arrange the moment of his own death or that of others. That is why we have always refused any hypothesis of active help to die, such as active euthanasia or assistance to suicide. But the new law recognizes a fundamental principle for us: when death is inevitable, it is preferable to give priority to a dignified end rather than to an artificial prolongation of life. That normative void, moreover, abandoned to his own solitude not only the dying person and his family members, but also doctors and caregivers, right at the time of taking decisions of enormous importance.
From today it is no longer so – said Heiner Bludau, dean of the Lutheran Evangelical Church in Italy (CELI) -. I am really convinced that, as many have pointed out, today Italy has made a big step in civilization”.
Last March at the beginning of the discussion of the bill, CELI had appealed to the Italian parliamentarians, urging the discussion also through the “Vademecum for the end of life from a Christian perspective” elaborated by the same CELI to offer an orientation on the topic of the advance treatment directives from multiple perspectives: theological, ethical, medical and legal.
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