Pope says assisted suicide is a "sin against God"

[Jazzy]

Pope says assisted suicide is a "sin against God"

Pope Francis has denounced the right to die movement, saying it's a "false sense of compassion" to consider euthanasia as an act of dignity when in fact it's a sin against God and creation.

Francis made the comments Saturday to the Association of Italian Catholic Doctors.

Earlier this month, the Vatican's top bioethics official condemned as "reprehensible" the assisted suicide of an American woman, Brittany Maynard, who was suffering terminal brain cancer and said she wanted to die with dignity.

Maynard said in an interview with CBS News' Jan Crawford in mid-October that her decision should not be considered suicide.

"No. Cancer is ending my life," not suicide, she said. "I'm choosing to end it a little sooner and in a lot less pain and suffering."

Francis didn't refer to the Maynard case specifically. He also condemned abortion, in vitro fertilization (or "the scientific production of a child") and embryonic stem cell research (or "using human beings as laboratory experiments to presumably save others.")

He said: "This is playing with life."

Do you agree or disagree with what the Pope Francis said and why?

 

[Evil Eye]

Play on.

 

[Raven]

The pope and his deluded ideas are full of shit

 

[beowulf]

The pope and his deluded ideas are full of shit

word!

 

[WHO IS SERAFIN]

I am no catholic or am I believer but I kinda like the guy. I do believe the man has real compassion and cares. And I do think people should have the right to do suicide if they wish. I am just against making people like that lady out to be some kind of hero or brave and fully believe it devalues life and just begins that slippery slope to the next level of making life worthless.