To Live Each Day with Dignity

Church Teaching

Assisted Suicide Fact Sheets

Prayers During Serious Illness

Select Educational Articles

Columns and Commentary

Assisted Suicide Videos

Watch Maggie, Jeanette & John tell their stories of why they oppose assisted suicide.

Church Teaching

• Evangelium Vitae (On the Value and Inviolability of Human Life) encyclical by Pope John Paul II, 2005 (en español)
• Declaration on Euthanasia by the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith, 1980 (en español)
• Statement on Euthanasia by the Administrative Committee of the United States Conference of Catholic Bishops, 1991

Fact Sheets

• Updated Fact Sheet - Assisted Suicide Laws in Oregon and Washington: What Safeguards?, February 11, 2016
  
• Assisted Suicide and Euthanasia: Beyond Terminal Illness, June 9, 2014
• Assisted Suicide and Euthanasia: From Voluntary to Involuntary, June 9, 2014
• Physician-Assisted Suicide: Threat to Improved Palliative Care, June 9, 2011
• Suicide and Assisted Suicide: The Role of Depression, May 18, 2011
• The U.S. Supreme Court's 1997 Decisions on Assisted Suicide, May 13, 2011
• Assisted Suicide: What is at Stake?, May 13, 2011

Prayers

• Prayer Resources – Prayers, Litanies, and Intercessions

Select Educational Articles

• Maggie's Story: Living Like Dad, by Maggie Karner, Respect Life Program 2015-16 (en español)
  
• Life Matters: Doctor-Assisted Death, by William L. Toffler, MD, 2012 (en español)
  
• Life Matters: To the End of Our Days, 2011 (en español)
  
• Assisted Suicide: Death by “Choice”?, by Rita L. Marker, Esq., 2009 (en español)
  
• Pope John Paul II: Dying with Dignity, by Rev. J. Daniel Mindling, O.F.M. Cap., 2005 (en español)
  
• Physician-Assisted Suicide: The Wrong Approach to End of Life Care, by F. Michael Gloth, III, M.D., 2003 (en español)
• Hope for the Journey: Meaningful Support for the Terminally Ill, by Kathy Kalina, RN, CRNH, 2001 (en español)
• Killing the Pain, Not the Patient: Palliative Care vs. Assisted Suicide, by Richard Doerflinger and Carlos F. Gomez, M.D., PH.D., 1998
• The Quality of Life: Who's to Judge? by Richard Doerflinger, 1996

Columns and Commentary

• The True Face of Assisted Suicide, by Richard Doerflinger, Life Issues Forum, February 26, 2016 (en español)
  
• Facing Death with Dignity, by Deirdre McQuade, Life Issues Forum, October 9, 2015 (en español)
• Dependent, by Aaron Matthew Weldon, Life Issues Forum, March 16, 2015 (en español)
  
• "Together We Survive", by Tom Grenchik, Life Issues Forum, February 13, 2015 (en español)
  
• The Public Relations of Death, by Richard Doerflinger, Life Issues Forum, January 16, 2015 (en español)
  
• Flirting with Death, by Richard Doerflinger, The Public Discourse, January 5, 2015
  
• Are We Not Dying Fast Enough? by Tom Grenchik, Life Issues Forum, August 29, 2014 (en español)
• Cardinal O'Malley Comments on the Vermont Assisted Suicide Law Saying it Reveals a "Slippery Slope", May 21, 2013
  
• Statement of The Most Reverend Salvatore R. Matano Regarding the Legalization of Doctor-Prescribed Suicide, May 20, 2013
• Hemlock’s Twisted Logic, by Richard Doerflinger, Life Issues Forum, June 24, 2011 (en español)
• Remarks on the Defeated Massachusetts Ballot Initiative on Physician Assisted Suicide - Cardinal Sean O'Malley, Pro-Life Committee Chairman, USCCB November 2012 General Assembly