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“Be merciful, as your Heavenly Father is merciful”.
Death is inevitable. In fact the only certain thing about life is death. Under normal circumstances, nobody wants to die; however, when a person has a terminal illness, the Death With Dignity Act allows Euthanasia, defined by John Keown as the right to shorten one’s own life with the help of a doctor through lethal injection or deliberate omission (such as removing a patients feeding tube) resulting in an easy death to end pain and suffering. In fact, web site Flow Psychology says the term “euthanasia” is of Greek origin and literally means “good death”. Euthanasia can be applied to anyone at any age who has been diagnosed by a physician as a terminally ill patient with 6 months or less to live. At first glance, euthanasia may sound harmless. Nevertheless, after careful consideration, one may realize the catastrophic results of this act. Giving legal authority to taking one’s own life with the assistance of a doctor to avoid pain could have many negative outcomes. These include violating the sanctity of life, reducing the spirit of spirituality, abuse of legal loopholes that can lead to manipulation of the system for financial profit, and even getting away with murder. Human beings strive to survive. Everything we read and know about the progress of sciences, especially the medical field, exists because mankind wants to survive. Killing this passion for survival will lead to humanity’s downfall by decreasing the value of life, loss of morality, and promoting cruelty.
Holy Father says that a physician is more identified by his "merciful attitude towards those who suffer" rather than on his mere technical skills. The Pope remarked that compassion "is not pity, it is suffering-with," calling it "the very soul of medicine. Condemning euthanasia, the Holy Father remarked, "True compassion does not marginalize, humiliate or exclude and doesn't celebrate the passing away of a patient. He further noted the example of Christ, who spent much time healing others. Paraphrasing Christ in Matthew 25, he recalled, "Every time you did it to one of these, my brethren, you did it to me. Therefore we need to show mercy towards others by helping them to survive their illness rather than taking their precious gift of life. "Fragility, pain and disease are a tough test for everyone, including medical staff," said the Holy Father. But he exhorted all not to surrender to "the temptation to apply quick, merely functional and drastic solutions driven by false compassion" driven by "efficiency and cost savings."To give in to the practice of so-called "mercy killing," Pope Francis warned that those who do mercy killing not only reduce "the dignity of human life" but also the "dignity of the medical vocation."
Being as religious take spread the message of Holy Father Pope Francis to the entire world. Because Jesus says “Be merciful, as your Heavenly Father is merciful”.
                                                                                      Bro. Jobin Puthenthara CMI
Dharmaram College Bengaluru

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